Danielle Vermeer

Shein is to Wario as Depop is to Mario.

The app connects clothing brands, and consumers, with individual seamsters who can mend, alter or tailor new or pre-loved clothing. The app has many aims, according to its 24-year-old founder Josephine Philips: It wants to extend the lifetime of clothing, and generate work for the many small seamster businesses on high streets across the country.

The multi-SKU creator isn't all-in on just one product, though one product may wind up being the most lucrative for them. Instead, they apply their skills across various domains and use the various platforms and tools in the creator economy to put together multiple different product or service offerings.But while this unbundling of the value chain... See more

But bodies don’t gauge their stress response in comparison to other body’s hardships. They’re not logical, at least not in that way. My intense stress may have been less than others’, in other words, but that didn’t diminish how my body was internalizing it.

These resale sites have low-to-zero marginal costs because they don’t have standard product COGS, physical distribution, and transaction costs. For example, Poshmark enables the connection between millions of sellers and buyers. The seller manages inventory, photography, pricing, marketing, packaging, and fulfillment. By making it easy to sell,... See more

The main reason for the harm today’s internet platforms cause is the misalignment in incentives between users, creators & the platforms — or demand, supply and platform incentives. And a lot of it comes down to advertising-based business models.