Danielle Vermeer

Automated curation will not replace human curators. Despite Skyscanner’s powerful algorithms, Jack’s Flight Club has 1,500,000+ members and ~$800,000 in revenue.

Curators filter signal from noise in an increasingly noisy world. As the barriers to being a creator decrease, the internet gets even noisier and the need for credible curators increases. Algorithms will continue to play a role in aggregation, indexing, and personalization. But the best curation requires a human touch. You’re more likely to have an... See more

But aggregation won’t be enough to make secondhand fashion first choice. Consumers need better discovery and curation, which is why I believe that the future of (re)commerce is curation. 

Over the past 15 years, clothing production has doubled while the length of time we actually wear these clothes has fallen by nearly 40%.

The product isuniquely focused ondriving one corebehavior within theapp that is central tothe vision laid out bythe founders. TheUI/UX for that singularfeature is effortless.

At surface level, Shein and Depop are polar opposites, but this is more about the what and the how of their business models. Diving deeper, we see that both Shein and Depop address a similar who and why. Both Shein and Depop meet the same underlying consumer needs for trendy, cheap fashion.

Web3 is an extension of cryptocurrency, using blockchain in new ways to new ends. A blockchain can store the number of tokens in a wallet, the terms of a self-executing contract, or the code for a decentralized app (dApp). Not all blockchains work the same way, but in general, coins are used as incentives for miners to process transactions. 

Human communication is based on the exchange of social signals that are essentially multimodal. If these signals deviated from expected patterns, this indicated problems in the communication. The pattern of deviation identified the type of problem suggesting how to repair it. 

“Nouveau riche” industrialists began to buy their way into high society, and existing aristocratic elites, battling economic upheaval, were unable to guard against this pecuniary emulation.