Ben Thompson
15 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2018 by Ben Thompson · said 5 times in 1 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Sep 5, 2018 positive
Admitting mistakes publicly is the fastest and shortest way to be right
“A friend of mine once said I love to be right, which is why I always say when I'm wrong, because that's the fastest and shortest way to be right. You know, as opposed to sort of like, double down it. So, so one, if you want to be right, like, admit you're wron…”
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Upfront payments build daily reading habits far better than free trials
“Once someone has given you 10 dollars, like they're going to carve out the time because they feel like they already paid for it. They better do it. And what's great about that is it, it's a forcing function for habit building where people get in the habit of r…”
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Sep 5, 2018
Stratechery replaced Ben Thompson's full-time salary in one year instead of five
“My goal when I started trajectory was that in five years, it could become my job. It actually became my job in a year, and I am now five years in, and, Far more successful than I would have ever imagined or made possible.”
Sep 5, 2018
Ben Thompson analyzes tech by starting with business models, not products
“I start from business models. I start from trying to gain an understanding of a company's culture, you know, which I think goes back to a company's founding and the lessons it learned early on. And from that, look at what they do, look at what they might do, l…”
Sep 5, 2018
Ben Thompson launched paid subscriptions based on non-posting day homepage traffic
“The metric that I used when figuring out when I wanted to actually launch it was I was looking at the number of visitors to the homepage on days that I didn't post. Because those were people that were searching out new content. They were going to trajectory sa…”
Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018
Incorrect technical details cause key decision-makers to dismiss valid analysis
“If you're not precise and understand exactly how the business works, then your analysis may be right in spirit. But it's not right because of the details are wrong. And more importantly, the people that matter are not going to hear what you have to say because…”
Sep 5, 2018
Thompson: Stratechery has never done any marketing
“And the, you know, I've never done any marketing, you know, and this is, I think a thing where the internet is, is very, A huge benefit for publishers if you have this sort of model, because the friction for my subscribers to tell other people to try it out is…”
Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Sep 5, 2018 neutral
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Subscription publishers should charge for volume, not paywall existing free content
“I'm going to deliver this product consistently for free. It's going to always be there for free. And then if you want more, you can pay to get more. So I wanted the feeling of pain to be a positive feeling where you're getting, this is such great stuff. I want…”
Sep 5, 2018 neutral
Stratechery would not have survived if launched five years earlier
“I could write the exact same things, the exact same sort of person I was, and I've come along 10 years earlier, or five years earlier, and would not be successful. Yeah, absolutely. I'd be writing for like, you know, some like, magazine or whatever, make, you …”
Sep 5, 2018 neutral
Avoiding confirmation bias is far harder than generating new analysis
“I think from my perspective it's less the coming up with opinions that is difficult and more the, Trying to keep a very strong sort of guard up against like confirmation bias where, where things happen and, oh, that, that, that fits my view of the world. I'm, …”