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12 Feb 2026 Cheeky Pint Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
“It's still great. But there's a number of restaurants that I used to always take people to, like holes in the wall that I knew had super good beef noodles or something.”
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- Ben Thompson
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…I see. So I mean famously, yeah, the restaurant economy and places like Taipei would have been really good, but it's gotten worse because people are eating in more with Uber Eats and stuff like that. I think so. As far as walking around and just like stuff on… No, there's still plenty of places. It's still great. But there's a number of restaurants that I used to always take people to, like holes in the wall that I knew had super good beef noodles or something. And I remember a couple times like, “Oh, you can't actually go eat there anymore, but they're still on Uber Eats.” That's a bummer. It's like a separate problem. The San Francisco problem at restaurants is that nobody drinks anymore. And so the restaurants can't… They've lost a major revenue source.…
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