NYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected
Sean Xtwitter.comNYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected
Like the postwar creative revolutionaries, these creatives often see themselves as occupying a liminal space at the boundaries of capitalism, though in many ways they are at the center of it.
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
The field studios: Small interdisciplinary teams working out of converted warehouses and coworking labs. Scoping problems agencies can't: "How does a city regenerate identity?" "What does post-growth commerce look like?
zoe scaman • The Work
In the 1980s, a venture capitalist could truthfully say their investment was the difference between life or death for an important, generational technology company. Funding such companies, in this way, was absolutely a good quest. But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game
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