In the Maven case, that’s experts who didn’t really have a way to share that expertise and monetize it with the world.

What I’m really interested in is companies that are inviting new participants into types of creative work that had been previously inaccessible to people.

So they’re enfranchising a new segment of the population to do some type of work that hadn’t really been easy or available to them before.

In the Mirror case, that was writers who aren’t publishing frequently.

I think what’s more interesting about Web 3 and the angle that I would love to explore more is, in so far as it serves as a vector for allowing platform participants to become the owners of the platforms themselves.

In the passion economy: it’s much more about growing your audience or intensifying the relationship that you have with your audience and your customers. It’s about building a depth of fandom.

NFTs are a way to capture the attention of a popular creator, in a world in which the creator is constantly being bombarded.

We’ve always had creators purchasing attention of consumers… it’s advertising! But much more rare to have the consumers now (the fans) purchasing the attention of the creators.

I think Substack did a lot to pioneer the subscription model of newsletters. But I think those two models (ads or subscription) leave a lot of writers still without a great business model.