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David Rosenthal: belief

6 Dec 2022 Acquired Stratechery (with Ben Thompson)

“Obviously, you were building up towards it, even as you said at the time, I think.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Dec 2022
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…But no, I should write a book. I just haven't. I don't know if I ever will. I agree that I should have by now written a book, but alas. One last quick question on Aggregation Theory. Obviously, you were building up towards it, even as you said at the time, I think. Was it one or two years you're doing Stratechery before you wrote the first post? This is actually an example of the power of branding. I wrote articles that were basically aggregation theory well before I wrote Aggregation Theory, but giving it a term and coining it is what made it stick. Actually, some of those articles that I wrote before, there's one, I think it was called Economic Power in the Age of Abundance.…

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