Darren LI

Open-source projects—not just commercial open source—have served as a critical driver for the improvement of products for decades. However, some software is going to remain closed source. It’s just the nature of first-mover advantage. But when transparency and extensibility are an issue, an open-source successor becomes a real threat.

The manual emphasized efficiency.

Etsy, ProductHunt and Pinterest (the latter two both A16z portfolio companies) are building solutions from different directions, and a great many people trying to replicate some form of the boutique model online as well, as I suggested here - to create some kind of specialist curation.

11. Coinbase is moving towards crypto-native, and FTX is moving away from crypto-native, so Coinbase will be the winner of Crypto, and FTX may be the winner of other markets.

So in reality they aggregate three sides. On Facebook:- Content makers like newspapers (content supply) bring the quality content expecting in exchange clicks to visit their sites and monetize through ads or subscriptions. - Consumers (content demand) go to the site to consume that content. Some of them can also become content supply some of the... See more

4. NFTs are also the fastest-growing on-chain fee-paying segment. Up from ~5% a year back to 25% on Ethereum now.