Podcast Magic - Sublime
Building collective organizations as 'mids' to hedge against randomness and create sustainable success beyond individual content creation
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Now, imagine the following situation. What if you formed an organization with 10 or maybe 100 other people, and here's how this works. You're going to cooperate together in that you're all going to brand yourselves collectively, like as if you were a band or a magazine or a sports club or something.
You're creating this thing, and that's the mid. A
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So we've set up an enterprise. We're using business as a vehicle to do that. Communities need to be connected to make change in their neighborhood. We've set up an app as a tool for them to do that. We're in service of somebody else's bigger purpose.
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