Английская Википедия:Ben Thompson (analyst)
Шаблон:AboutШаблон:Infobox writer Ben Thompson is an American business, technology, and media analyst, who is based in Taiwan. He is the author of Stratechery, a subscription-based newsletter/podcast featuring commentary on tech and media news.[1] He is also the co-host of Exponent with James Allworth and Dithering with John Gruber, all podcasts focused on the same themes.[2]
Thompson's career includes stints at Apple, where he interned at Apple University;[3] Microsoft, where he worked on its Windows Apps team;[4] and at WordPress developer Automattic as a growth engineer.[5]
Thompson launched Stratechery as a blog while still a Microsoft employee, and in April 2014 devoted himself to the site full-time, operating on a "freemium" subscription model.[6] He has stated his primary inspiration was John Gruber, author of the site Daring Fireball.[7]
As of April 2015, Thompson had more than 2,000 paying subscribers.[8] By 2017, Recode described Stratechery as having pioneered the paid newsletter business model.[9] The founders of Substack, a newsletter platform launched in 2018, called Thompson a major inspiration for their project.[9]
Thompson's undergraduate education was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his graduate education at Northwestern University, where he received an MBA from the Kellogg School as well as an MEM from the McCormick School of Engineering.[10]
Aggregation Theory
Thompson is a proponent of 'aggregation theory', which describes how platforms (i.e. aggregators such as Google and Facebook) come to dominate the industries in which they compete in a systematic and predictable way. Aggregators have all three of the following characteristics: 1. direct relationship with users; 2. zero marginal costs for serving users; 3. and demand-driven multi-sided networks with decreasing acquisition costs.[11]
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