Ben Thompson

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42,103 appearances 120 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 21 Aug

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · (Preview) SpaceX Hype and the Elon Bargain, Nvidia and the Neoclouds, Q&A on Dropbox, Google, Ferrari Luce Backlash · 29 May 2026 podcast

You you built them up and they they they culminated in this massive spectacle on the national mall. podcast-host

On the internet, it doesn't work that way. podcast-host

Internet, you can spin up masses overnight. podcast-host

And so I think I wrote mistakes and memes in the context of like the whole GameStop sort of thing. podcast-host

But there's been other things like the color protests and and there and there was a a sense that why is it we get these huge movements and nothing happens? podcast-host

And it's because this whole process has been inverted. podcast-host

You podcast-host

You can spin up a mass movement on social media, but y if you didn't put in the years of building the infrastructure around that movement, then it just sort of sputters out and everyone forgets about it. podcast-host

However podcast-host

And this is where I tied Musk into that article. podcast-host

What makes him unique? podcast-host

There's a lot of things that are Ian Musk unique. podcast-host

And by unique, unique can be good and it can be mad. podcast-host

But no question he's unique. podcast-host

Is the extent to which and there's a bit of jobsian sort of podcast-host

reality distortion field. podcast-host

But Musk has like nuclearized that sort of capability where you leverage the masses to achieve the means by which you build the structure that spun up the masses in the first place. podcast-host

And the Tesla stock has always been the best story of this. podcast-host

I I have not written about Tesla earnings because any sort of breakdown podcast-host

Even once they achieved success, honestly, the stock went to the moon, it was still if you if you actually sketch out their their their profits and losses and value, it doesn't really make sense. podcast-host

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