Collaboration, contracts, and the tyranny of platforms
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Collaboration, contracts, and the tyranny of platforms
Ownership, via employee stock option plans, has been a powerful tool for incentivizing talented people to dedicate their skills to building startups in Silicon Valley. While this model has been extremely successful, it hasn’t been accessible to all, constrained by geography and legacy financial infrastructure, among other factors. One result is tha... See more
variant.fund • The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant
Will all marketplaces become decentralized, issue tokens, and enable users to participate in governance? Maximally extractive folks will be disrupted first. Airbnb looks the same in 10 years because they provide as much value as they extract. But people hate Upwork so there is a strong incentive to disintermediate. Knowledge work marketplaces are s... See more
Li Jin • Braintrust’s Founders on How to Run a Decentralised Marketplace
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From a profit maximization perspective, the best outcome for a platform like Windows would be to have lots of smaller complements with weak, fragmented power, but for the sum of those complements to make the platform more valuable as a whole.