The best Stratechery content from the week of May 26, 2025, including a human-agent epiphany, the danger of choosing to ...

An interview with Plaid co-founder and CEO Zach Perret about building trust as an ingredient brand in financial services.

OpenAI is acquiring io, Jony Ive’s hardware company. Is the company actually focused on displacing Apple? Apple needs to spend big in response.

Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web. The fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of ...

With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. A ...

Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone.

With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. A ...

Airbnb has a new app with new offerings for experience and services; I’m not sure the economics make sense for either. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. With Stratechery Plus you get ...

Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone.

OpenAI is acquiring io, Jony Ive’s hardware company. Is the company actually focused on displacing Apple? Apple needs to spend big in response.

OpenAI is acquiring io, Jony Ive’s hardware company. Is the company actually focused on displacing Apple? Apple needs to spend big in response.