Danielle Vermeer

While Web2 businesses’ GTM strategies start with the product (i.e. come for the tool), Web3 companies should have more of a bottom-up approach and design the tokenomics to reach and attract an engaged community. That’s what investors would want to see.

The digital obsession with cores—used as a suffix that basically denotes a kind of style—began back in 2013, when the term normcore was first coined by trend forecasters K-Hole as a philosophy of fashion. They posited that the chronically online were competing for virality and uniqueness, and as a result, both were harder to come by. Enter... See more

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We’ve reached a point of diminishing returns when it comes to productivity, creativity, concentration, cooperation, plus all of the other skills we try to cultivate alongside the labor we do for pay.

We all tend to oversimplify complex things into two competing ideologies: generalist or specialist, objective or subjective, individual or team. This can be useful, but it can also make us think we should pick a side. It also becomes an issue when we try and solve them—calling these things ‘problems’ implies there is a correct answer somewhere. But... See more

Economics - what is your upside? This is the financial benefit you receive from the company doing well.Control - who decides the future of your company?

The antithesis of ambition isn’t mediocrity, or underperformance, or laziness. The antithesis of ambition is agency.

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.