Scarcity is a form of framing a product.
Example: At the Apple store, there’s only one of each product on display. All other inventory is in the back. This creates a sense of scarcity and increases the value of the product.
The timeline is full of people dunking on Twitter Blue.
But Blue offers features people have been requesting for years. So why is it seen as embarrassing to subscribe?
It's a case study in messaging. Here's how to gain or lose prestige, and how to make a product desirable...
in the case of VR at Oculus, we also never really felt like the world had a Northstar that could truly capture human hearts and minds, and without that it would be impossible to transition VR from being a niche gamer tech to the incredible spatial computing paradigm that we always thought it potentially represented (which I still very much believe... See more
on storytelling - without a Northstar, you have nothing. (this is from the former head of Oculus at Meta)
Often founders think brand is a logo or the colors, and that it’s something you can think about later.
With @linear we thought about it the brand from the day one.
But brand is not a logo, colors or the website. It’s what you stand for as a company. You then build the brand in people’s minds... See more