Business Models

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.

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

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

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

i don't want a new cryptocurrency i want a new type of business legal structure that incentivizes you to actually do good in the world while making money

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

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.

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

Very 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: