The Critical Path

The Critical Path is a talk show on the 5by5.tv podcast network. Horace Dediu and Dan Benjamin contemplate the causes of success and failure in technology markets. Using Apple as a lens they try to understand what it means to be great.Our goal was to provide the first year’s full transcript in a form that can be referenced and annotated and shared. The full year turned out to be too ambitious due to overall length (requiring more than 1000 pages in print form). We chose to exclude the interviews (to be published separately) and removed administrative discussions, banter and ads. As a result there are 31 episodes from June 7th, 2011 through May 30th, 2012, plus an introductory Pipeline interview from April 28th, 2011.