Ben Thompson and NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on the strategy behind the Times' pivot to expert-led journalism, bundle economics, and the future of news in the AI era.
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youtube.comSimon Sinek's TED talk introducing the "Golden Circle" - the idea that inspiring leaders and companies (Apple, MLK, the Wright brothers) all start by communicating their "why" before their "what" or "how."
Gini coefficient for Silicon Valley went from 30 to 83 since the '90s. Those are the conditions for the French Revolution.
The industry that ran on 'don't be evil' now has wealth concentration worse than pre-revolutionary France. The surprise is the politics stayed polite this long.
New Money has something to prove, and Old Money has nothing to prove.
It's not wealth that compounds across generations—it's the absence of extrinsic pressure. Ennui is the silent killer of dynastic ambition.