Merryn Somerset Webb

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Merryn Talks Money · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the World · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

The microphysal network, thank you. matched

Which is um beneath us all the time and we don't see it and we don't think about it until it suddenly pops up around us. matched

I bet. matched

One of the things that that let me pick you up straight away on what you said about resilience. matched

Does this make uh or does this underground network make things more resilient or less resilient? matched

It's very taken by chart. matched

Page three forty, for those of you who haven't got it yet. matched

Page three forty, wonderful chart here. matched

You've got a car maker, and then you look at the suppliers to said car maker, and they've got their tier one suppliers and then they've got tier two suppliers, and then under matched

Beneath that, you've written lots of tier three p suppliers. matched

And this is a great chart because what it does, it plays into exactly what's going on. matched

that stuff. matched

We have AI for that stuff for making your charts. matched

Um it's it's just interesting because you've got, you know, you've got your three tier ones and then the way you've drawn the tart, there are six tier twos. matched

Maybe there are lows more than that. matched

It's a couple of things. matched

But and this whole idea that at the bottom, making these little parts, as you say, for for mirrors or for lights, or a tiny bit of a chip for this, or a casing for a chip for that, whatever it is, you've got um matched

Maybe hundreds of tier three suppliers, because what do you say, something like thirty thousand parts per car? matched

And you look at that and you think, well, hang on, when we think about supply chains uh branching out around the world and we think of being able to get parts made everywhere, in our heads, a bit like investing, you think, well, that's diversification. matched

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