Danielle Vermeer

According to a 2019 report by McKinsey, Gen Z’s annual spending power in the U.S. is $150 billion.

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.

Consumers are adopting resale to:1. Save money 2. Afford higher-end brands 3. Find one-of-a-kind items 

Not all attention and views are created equal. Ryan at Perpetual wrote a newsletter on why Mr. Beast has fewer followers than PewDiePie and yet Pew makes $9M while Mr. Beast makes $100M+ a year. The difference? Attention vs Intention. From Ryan:

Attention is cheap . It’s easy to grab. Even easier to fake.  The impact: revenue doesn’t scale.

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Have your executive staff succinctly describe their vision, operating plan, metrics, roadmap, and resourcing needs using this straight-forward strategy memo.

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.