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Full Stack Creator | Stephen Wise
The Creator Lifecycle: How can you turn your audience into an empire?
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The Creator Economy value chain is simple: create content to build an audience and monetize that audience by selling subscriptions, merch, courses, access, and more.
Not Boring by Packy McCormick • Beacons: Not Boring Memo
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Becoming a full-stack creator is also important. Social media is about to become far, far, far more lucrative and monetizable than people realize. They think it’s over or stagnant. But we’re just getting started. Many who want to build billion-dollar companies will have to also build million-person media followings.
Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
Who will we even consider to be creators? I see two trends having an impact here. First, the line between mainstream and digital talent will fade away: not so much through creators ‘breaking through’ into the mainstream (a narrative that already feels out-of-date), as through the opposite - talent that has (or would have) found an audience through ... See more
Jad Esber • 📺 the creator economy in 2030 and the growth of viewer-funded businesses
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“Everyone’s already a creator,” said Li Jin, a general partner at Variant Fund and an ex-partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “We’re all creating content on the internet. I think this binary divide between who’s a creator versus who’s a consumer – it doesn’t really exist. Everyone is creating something of value on the internet.”
Coindesk • Money for Everything: A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized
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- The long tail of the internet has provided a way for sovereign creators
and businesses to ‘
niche at scale
‘ in ways not possible at any other time in history, fostering unparalleled creativity and innovation; - The quality of an audience matters;
- Being tiny is mighty;
- Delighting the weird is a superpower;
- When you build a business, you’re building a new
Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans
- The long tail of the internet has provided a way for sovereign creators
and businesses to ‘
niche at scale
‘ in ways not possible at any other time in history, fostering unparalleled creativity and innovation; - The quality of an audience matters;
- Being tiny is mighty;
- Delighting the weird is a superpower;
- When you build a business, you’re building a new
Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans
What’s striking about the creator phenomenon is that it isn’t a vertical trend; rather, it’s a through-line that cuts across social, gaming, crypto, media, commerce. It is both the future of work, with creators forming a new class of digitally-native entrepreneurs, and the future of leisure. And while the creator phenomenon is often thought of as a... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
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