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Ben Thompson: uncertainty

24 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Ben Thompson on Business and Tech

“I don’t know. I’m not that familiar with it, to be honest. People ask me why I don’t cover Chinese companies more.”

— Ben Thompson

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Speaker
Ben Thompson
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
24 Oct 2018
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…But ByteDance, to me, seems to be apps and machine learning. Why should I care? What can it do for me, saying I’m Chinese? Why is my life better because of ByteDance? I don’t know. I’m not that familiar with it, to be honest. People ask me why I don’t cover Chinese companies more. I say there’s two reasons. One, I’m actually not in China. Well, be careful how you state that. [laughter]…

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