Agalia Tan

So much disaggregation in media over the past few years so it seems like the next phase will be about aggregation as media brands need more scale and advertisers need to consolidate where they spend money. Also, there’s a significant shift with people wanting to be offline and unplugged and as a result, there are going to be so many interesting

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Do this once, and you’ve got a learning experience. Do it twice, and you’ve got comparison data. Do it three times, and you’ve got the beginnings of a portfolio. Do it five times, and you understand more about how businesses actually work than most agency strategists will learn in a decade.

The path of “get into a top firm, learn the craft, exit into something interesting” is narrower than it’s ever been.

Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is eating the bottom of the value chain. The tasks that used to be given to juniors - desk research, competitive audits, first-draft decks, trend reports - are increasingly being done by tools. Not... See more

It gave me so much confidence in what I wanted to do. I did not care if the world I wanted to exist in actually existed. And then as we kept going, we created it around us.

Consistently, if I’m out and someone asks what I do, I’ll say I’m an artist. I’ll say I’m an app star. I’ll consistently say these things that make no sense. And weirdly, the... See more

If you’re building technology for the people now flooding into entrepreneurship, you’re selling to a market where capability is abundant and meaning is scarce.