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13: Greatest Ads Of All Time, Joe Rogan The King Maker + First Day At Work Stories
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Jack Butcher, Bilal Zaidi & Trung Phan discuss what they're finding on the edges of the internet + the latest in business, technology and memes.
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Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 – Intro
- 0:02:19 – England
- 0:05:37 – Andy Jassy Takes Over Jeff Bezos
- 0:11:15 – Amazon Profit + Trung’s Bank Internship
- 0:17:31 – Bilal's Google Interview + Trung's Flower Shirt Theory
- 0:22:31 – King Maker Joe Rogan
- 0:28:54 – Music Production + Book Publishing
- 0:36:18 – Jay Z, Square, Twitter + Mobile Banking
- 0:40:28 – Revenue Share Agreement, E-Commerce + Bitcoin
- 0:47:04 – Absolut Vodka’s Longest Running Ad Campaign
- 0:53:30 – Constraint, Culture + Simplicity
- 1:00:38 – Diluting the Strength of the Message
- 1:11:13 – Audience Questions
- 1:12:45 – Top Three News Sources + Twitter List
- 1:20:00 – Media Diet + Reddit
- 1:23:51 – The Economist’s Greatest Ad Campaign
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