Danielle Vermeer

But the “rockstars” of any profession usually have another secret: they’ve found themselves in a situation in which they’re able to still do one job. I don’t mean that they’re not doing several things at once. I mean they’re not trying to do the work that three or four people.

It’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing... 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. 

The opportunity in Web3 is to leverage tokens and the underlying decentralized tech to build and bootstrap these new networks.

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.