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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
“I think no one's going to really solve community around content, like a message board or comments or not.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Thompson
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 12 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Cheeky Pint
Transcript context
…Yes. Do sports teams become more valuable in an AI abundance future? Of course. Everything live becomes more valuable. That’s something I'm thinking a lot about as far as my business. There's some aspects of tens of thousands of people reading the same thing every day. That is actually really powerful. There's something interesting there, the possibility of doing live events where people can come together. I think a lot about community. I think no one's going to really solve community around content, like a message board or comments or not. You actually get very bad dynamics. There's a few people that dominate it. Totally. Yeah.…
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