I know you’ve been advocating breaking up Amazon but I think you owe MacKanzie Bezos a call to let her know this is not what you meant

Richard needs a channel of his own. Throw out those little juicy nuggets of wisdom, and collect more clients! Great talk.

This was fantastic. Great content.

Winner: Scott. He's still widely recognized in the field of marketing and now that we don't expect these videos we all feel a need to like and comment even more to keep him in the game. Losers: Us. He probably had these interviews scheduled a month ago. Nothing but teasers.

Welcome back Captain!

Please bring back winners and losers! 😭

should have him on at least quarterly! That is when/if there ever was another episode? cheers!

Glad you're back Scott, my Thursdays will suck much less.

Best interview I’ve seen in 2019.

Scott interviews Bigger & Better Scott. Great interview!

Richard was very Astute on Big four working infrastructure & market influence. Got great insight from this interaction

This was super informative, I need more of this.

I love this STUFF 👍🏾. Scott, please bring back Winners and Losers. If not, maybe a Podcast 🤔. I know you still have a lot to talk about. Side note: I Loved your book.

I love this show. You always explain things so concisely.

Thanks for sharing, Richard.

This is a great format for this type of video/conversation. Hope to see many more like it!

Great to see the other side of Scott's arguments, really great back and forth

A very insightful argument. Even though it was broken down its a video well worth watching again to better understand and/or chew the ideas presented.

WHOA! this was badass. MORE OF THIS GUY PLEASE!

Amazon will likely enter into general search inquiry market through their voice controlled echo devices.

Great Video! I have been following your channel for half a year now. It’s really informative and educational. Regulation has become a huge deal in the last month. Everybody is talking about the threatening article 13. Even KZfaq Germany is calling for people and putting ads on their platform calling “to do something against article 13 or can you imagine life without KZfaq?” Really exciting. This year I am trying to apply for the MBA at NYU - Stern to start my graduate Programm in Summer 2020. I am preparing right now 🙏🏼 Hope to see you soon. Greets from Germany

Great video!

This proportion of Kramer's eyes and ears makes me feel like I'm watching one of the those trippy gifs.

Breakup AWS from Amazon Shopping! they are cross subsidizing and are a predatory retailer

that was a really a treat, thank you Richard for sharing

I would LOVE to see this discussion continue on PBS or National Public Radio - ideally in a weekly show. Despite the title, I watch this and I feel some hope for a better future. A TV series could build top-of-mind awareness in a different audience than the one that enjoys you on KZfaq. Who could watch THIS and remain incurious about the regulatory challenges the DOJ will have to overcome in order to effectively regulate our nation's global communications monopolies? You two are exciting - fun to watch. You don't agree on everything, but it seems like you can finish each other's sentences ANYWAY. There's a lot of energy there. If the brainstorming and arguing continues, who KNOWS what you'll come up with?

Many US states do allow and regulate natural monopolies (utilities) such as gas, water, sewage, telecom, etc. Why not allow tech companies to have their monopolies but in exchange force their boards to be 51% public servants?

THANKS FOR COMING IN BOSS!!!

Damn! What a thrill! Please talk more! Also, Scott seems unusually low-energy, but I guess everyony would be so facing this hypernova of insight that is Richard. Kudos!

Richard Kramer is the very smart version of Cosmo Kramer

Great insights, Scott! Conversely, it is not lost on me that I spent 16+ minutes watching this on KZfaq. SMH

Yeah they made a bespoke episode for my post in the last video. Thanks guys.

Thank you Gentlemen....much obliged.

Thank you for making these. And now: to re watch it 2 or 3 times to make sure I really followed it, lol

Man that was an amazing episode I need to hear more from that guy

Whatever....I'm just glad your back

"...they are largely captured by the companies they regulate", this guy gets it.

Why is the difference between a platform company and a media company not defined by the nature of the recipient of information rather than the nature of the sender of information? In the case of publishers, information is published and accessible to anybody willing to access or pay for it. In the case of, whereas platforms are conduits for information to be moved from one identifiable individual to another identifiable individual. The information conduited by platforms is inherently private, whereas the information publicized by publishers and media are anything but private. Facebook cannot claim to be a conduit / platform because they do not provide delivery of private communication for anyone. Moreover, that which they publish is generally not targeted even to a narrow group of identifiable people. They would have to radically change their business model into something completely unrecognizable by users today in order to meet this definition of a platform. But if they did, anyone would have a problem with them.

"individually consumers are not worth much"? Well that's just wrong. 25 years ago a qualified phone number in the hands of a marketer was worth $10-15 per person. 15 years ago a qualified email address was worth $50. I cannot believe that today we are not worth much. If we were not worth much then they would sell me privacy; and in fact they sort-of do. Unfortunately is gets a little crazy when you consider the cost of GSuite and that google dominates the desktop and it's other services like DNS. You don't know what you don't know.

Perry Ferrell is a smart dude!!! No wonder he started Lollapalooza!!!

Can't get enough of it

scott has some of the best insights in the game, i never doubt him. his predictions have made me a ton of cash in the markets

You guys should look at a company called Brave. They're building a privacy-focused browser called Brave which blocks all ads and tracking by default, and a new model of advertising called the Basic Attention Token which aims to complete flip upside-down the traditional "aggregate and advertise" model that Facebook and Google built their businesses on. It's like Richard said at 12:31-the data stays on your device (and because Richard sounded skeptical about the fact that it will respect your privacy, everything they're building is open source), with a combination of contextual targeting, and relevant ad matching done with local machine learning. The user also gets rewarded for their attention, and can redistribute their earned tokens to all the creators and publishers they support (I just tipped this channel). There are already 5.5 million Brave users (I'm typing in Brave right now), and some publishers are already earning 4 figures per month from BAT donations, which is significant, because they would otherwise be earning $0 from the same users, who are more than likely young, wealthy owners of the 600M+ devices blocking ads today. (Sidenote: you guys didn't mention Google's plans to implement their own adblocker into Chrome which blocks everything the Coalition for Better Ads-made up of the "big boys" in digital ads-deems unacceptable, which is one of the biggest reasons I've seen people call for antitrust action on Google.) The CEO of Brave is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla/Firefox, so he's already done both things necessary to make this project successful: restarted the browser wars, and created a web protocol that becomes a global standard. They're going to create an SDK for the Basic Attention Token later this year, which will allow this model to be implemented into anything from apps, to other browsers, to games, to podcast apps, and anything else that runs on attention. Oh, and the Basic Attention Token is already an approved currency in the iOS App Store. My 2019 prediction: Brave triples its user count, becomes a serious competitor in the browser wars, and starts to make waves with creators and publishers. I wrote about this here: hackernoon.com/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee (cited in the book Life After Google, which you'd both enjoy) and here: hackernoon.com/the-attention-revolution-your-next-browser-will-pay-you-b8b12399c3f7

That was a great discussion

Scott I 100% agree with your statement that Richard's stance seems to be "this would hurt Google/Facebook to split them up" when that is entirely the point! Splitting up is about stopping harm to the consumer, not to the corporation.

Scott, thanks again for hosting an in-depth interview with Richard regarding the "four horsemen" monopoly these giants represent. I believe tech is moving faster than average consumers can adapt which has resulted in these companies owning massive amounts of data with almost no effort compared to media funnels of the past. Along with a dependency that no humans have ever had since the car was invented! And now I'll go back to fixing my beachside rustbucket...

Consumer Harm huh? - Cambridge Analytica. Why did my use of Facebook expose me to that? How is that legal? If it was legal maybe it shouldn’t be.

Wow, this guy’s great. Since Scott is retiring, let’s hire him for the winners and losers segment.

The thesis for additive search advantage as a protection against break up is flawed

This guy's argument is basically "it doesn't make sense to split this unified services up" but that isn't a valid argument against anti-trust issues that Galloway is pointing out.

Great talk!

Add the subtitles plaese 🙏

Yesssss. Keep vids coming!

Great Show, wish i understood it all.

Yeah good stuff, liked this interview a lot

I respectfully disagree with Mr. Kramer with: 1) Google controls my search result order and scope. Another company using better AI up front, not result refinement on the back end, produce better results. 2) People wanted to leave KZfaq for A] better profits and B] get around the "no firearms" How can we have free speech when one company controls more than the lions share of videos. 3) Where is my privacy under Google? Would people pay for a Bing or lower level search engine to get privacy back? I think so. These are the moral and finacial drives for one or more Google competitors. D.o.J. will not save me. Banks are still "Too big to fail" as a case in point. "We the people" will have to do it.

great stuff, wake up America!

For most of society, most things are worse. Besides low pay, then one needs to be good stock picker & house flippr to bd able p py mortgage. But we don't have: time, educstion, inside info, fast computer, educaion etc. WHY ? we all just get old & our life has lost meaning, corporations hav destroyed communiies, no ethics, integrity etc

Data Donation. Regulators and Congress being tech ignorant is what Andrew Yang's mandate built on. Would be very interested to get Scott's feedback on UBI campaign built on Data being the new Oil and VAT on the big 4 ad revenue and data manipulation for their revenue.

Is that the guy from Jane's addiction?

Break up the big 4. Break the big 4. Break the 4. BREAK THE 4! BREAK THE 4! BREAK THE 4!

Feel like doing a re run on your Nike lovefest video Scott? Latest malpractice in their sweatshops might need looking at along with kapernicks ethics on this topic

that purple man is good! way better insights than scott . maybe he should do 50% of the videos in this channel

Holy hairpiece batman

But he said Amazon will break up soon - that was 6 years ago back in 2017.

Why isn't Microsoft in the four to make it the five?

you are my favourite teacher

I use 🦆 🦆 go. It's cool, I like their mission, but Google is better still because it's used more.

apple sells u a product then finds out a way to take more money from you out of the same product lol

Before watching this video, I have one word. Lobbyists

The lack of views on this video are baffling

He needs to have Catherine Austin Fitts on

This was spicy 🌶

Sense things like Google are natural monopolys it would be better if everyone just bought stock in it and then it was owned by the public

DOWNLOAD BRAVE!!!

Wow, that was hard to understand. Can you do that again, and twice as slow?

Because Global Economics > bi-National politics Everytime.

App of the day as paid service, that’s BS. I know a lot of people who have been promoted and it was always a surprise. And as a developer: Apple never offered me anything like this. Search results- yes, promo story - hell no

brilliant

If scale is good for consumers, and KZfaq adds scale to Google search, then separating Alphabet and KZfaq would hurt consumers.

So then make the platform open to all or regulate the platform

12:43 - can anyone point to some more evidence on that claim?

Every time the line between content and advertising on a platform blurs, I leave. There is more to life than being either sold, or sold to.

16:17 well spent.

Interesting missed predictions about Apple... missed Apple Card completely... plus all the services...

Google is bias, duck duck go FTW

Not curing death is a rational decision Scott?

You have promoted a utraquistc subterfuge by. compounding the term regulation with antitrust enforcement, which is contrary to history of antitrust enforcement. The Antitrust Division (moribund since the ‘70’s). But, there’s a substantive difference between protecting and promoting competition and a regime of regulation, because real competition regulates the market, a regulatory agency is a political bureaucracy that substitutes it judgment for the force of free market competition.

CMO Vs CFO

Politics will eventually ruin everything it touches, because (all) people are controlled to some extent by their prejudice - period. Perhaps AI could play a positive roll in social media, by protecting the flow of information from prejudicial censorship.

1:30 i don’t trust him right there

Brilliant, this show sells to another business. Immediately its propoganda against why you shouldn't listen to the most powerful ideas this channel ever created.

Nice

#WWG1WGA Start buying those put options now.

Richard Kramer looks like Jim Carrey's relative

Does Verizon read your text messages and then make a profile about you and then sell that profile to advertisers? Come on man

Yay

at 3:20 ..... and God created everything.

Is this heaven?

Google Search effective? Nope. It's dumber because it has weakened boolean logic for AI that brings up dumb results. Algorithms are Google's and KZfaq's weakness. I hate their monopolization. It's making things harder by overwhelm.