Ben Thompson
American tech analyst; writer of Stratechery and proponent of aggregation theory.
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- Ben Thompson is an American business, technology and media analyst.
- He founded Stratechery, a subscription newsletter and podcast, and went full time on it in April 2014.
- He co-hosts Sharp Tech with Andrew Sharp, Dithering with John Gruber and Exponent with James Allworth.
- He is known for aggregation theory, on how platforms that own the user relationship come to dominate.
- He moved from Taiwan back to the United States in August 2025.
Key facts
- Education
- University of Wisconsin–Madison; MBA (Kellogg) and Master of Engineering Management, Northwestern University1
- Before
- Apple University intern; Microsoft (Windows Apps team); Automattic (growth engineer)1
- Stratechery
- Started as a blog while at Microsoft; full time from April 2014 on a freemium subscription model1
- Podcasts
- Sharp Tech (with Andrew Sharp), Dithering (with John Gruber), Exponent (with James Allworth)1
- Known for
- Aggregation theory1
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