Ben Thompson

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

Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · (Preview) Six Questions on Frontier AI Labs, Messaging AI to a Skeptical Public, Amazon (and Apple?) Ramps Up Competition with Elon · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

All right, and like there was a whole list of things. podcast-host

I'm not gonna like reinterpret it. podcast-host

I think some of them were fairly objectionable as any good comedy bit should be. podcast-host

But like there there is an aspect here of this is maybe a reason. podcast-host

Why enterprise markets are just always different than consumer markets. podcast-host

And maybe a mistake companies make again and again and again is forgetting this distinction. podcast-host

And there's that that kind of gets into my bit. podcast-host

It probably makes sense for open AI to double down on enterprise because that's where the money is for the cut AI AI use case, which is increasing productivity. podcast-host

Mm-hmm. podcast-host

That, though, is a reason to be quite optimistic about Meta because they're not in the enterprise space and they already have a functioning advertising business, more than functioning. podcast-host

And OpenAI just like they can't do both. podcast-host

And it's probably a mistake to try to do both. podcast-host

And sure, Chat GPT is still the biggest today, but every podcast-host

And when you say they podcast-host

Well, I mean it depends on what you w y you know, I guess you're the AI optimist here. podcast-host

They could just have AI write all the code to build up their ad engine on the consumer side and whatever. podcast-host

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I mean maybe you're right. podcast-host

I my general view, yeah, is still based in a view of of talent scarcity. podcast-host

Like actually the the building that out is going to take a lot of time and focus and energy uh that I see you should probably be building out uh more of a business in a place that actually pays. podcast-host

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