Business Models

The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.

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.

If you want to build a company, open this:

We can have more than one subscription. Boom. One of the most hurtful conventions in subscription pricing is "it has to be simple". Do you know how many tiers the fastest growing subscription mobile apps have (upper quartile in terms of growth)? Not 1. Not 3.

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

Steve Jobs: The more dependent Google is on Apple, the better October 10, 2008

Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring October 10, 2017

Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft July 24, 1997

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

Sometimes we don’t quite process that billions of people on the planet get unlimited entertainment, voice and video calling, maps, restaurant reviews, weather, news, an encyclopedia, mail, messaging, and more for *free* just because 1-2% of us click an ad every now and then.