Business Models
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Business Models
The real villain here is Google.
Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet.
This is the natural end state of that process.
Creator-Led Brands by Safwaan Kay
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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.
The “Free Parking” Business Model
25iq.comI wanted to make a product and sell it directly to people who’d care about its quality. There’s an incredible connection possible when you align your financial motivations with the service of your users. It’s an entirely different category of work than if you’re simply trying to capture eyeballs and sell their attention, privacy, and dignity in... See more
Reconsider
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.
If a platform enables
... See moreVery few people know how apps make money.
Fewer understand that Apple is a piece of shit for pulling the absolutist, crappy move called ATT which crippled the industry.
Here's a simplistic explanation on how millions of app developers monetise in the ~$100B+ app ads market:
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