Business Models
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Business Models
We don’t track time on site on Sublime. We also don’t track passive consumption. We only track people actively building and curating their library (which itself is not a perfect metric - because we don’t want to incentivize collecting. we want to incentivize creating with your knowledge) but is better than time on platform.
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Steve Jobs: The more dependent Google is on Apple, the better
October 10, 2008
I’d argue that the gist of sharecropping on social media is:
We rent space on platforms we don’t own.
We pay for that space by becoming “the product” whose attention is sold to the highest ads bidder.
Our attention is also being usurped by the makers of the platform and what they’ve programmed their algorithm to show us.
Our data is being collected, stored, and reused without our knowledge or permission (at times).
We are still the workforce that fills the platform with value, ideas, content, and meaning.
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It doesn’t benefit major social media companies (in a modern, capitalistic business sense) to encourage us to do the things that actually help us change the world and grow our businesses, and spread our ideas the way “gold standard” people are.
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In the age of AI—and tons of people competing for attention online, if you are a thought leader with meaningful ideas to share:
• Trying to compete on quantity is actually foolish.
• Trying to compete on quality will weed a few people out, but is clearly not enough because most people I know are already trying that.
• Competing on placement, relevance, and the strategic platform you build for your thought leadership is a much better way to spend your energy.
if you're a freemium business and you don't have one/few-click upgrades to team accounts when people hit feature walls, what could you possibly be doing in engineering that takes higher priority
it's the highest possible intent, pls let me buy
sarah guo // convictiontwitter.comWe earn trust by stating our business model upfront – instead of ads, we monetize by charging directly. Directly charging creates high expectations from our members, and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to creating something you love and use.