APIs All the Way Down

Companies today are developing APIs as an afterthought instead of treating them as a driver of business value. APIs are built, managed, and distributed using a mix of siloed tools for designing, testing, documenting, and distributing them, each used by separate teams across the API lifecycle. While each tool does the job it was meant to do, working

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First, the systems that technology companies once had to build from scratch are now available from third parties. They’re mature, stable, and getting better each day. So while once we might have had to build our own systems to manage the basics (customer log-in, payments, etc.), now we can outsource those tasks to others and focus on developing onl

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These companies follow a playbook originally written by Amazon: serve the needs of users within a single high-frequency purchase category, and use that category as a beachhead from which to expand vertically (brands) and horizontally (categories).

In crypto’s early days, the low-hanging fruits were up for grabs. Ethereum didn’t need to think about every specific use case - it just needed to work.Uniswap and Aave didn’t need to predict the growth of DeFi, stablecoins, interest-bearing tokens etc. to know that trading and borrowing were foundational use cases.Opensea didn’t need to predict P2E... See more