Emilie Kormienko

Noteworthy companies where PMs have relatively less influence: Apple, Oracle, Stripe, Tesla.

The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to integrate them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.

Measure your community health with surveys that ask questions about identity, feeling welcome, onboarding, and achieving goals.

Ethereum is a decentralized, blockchain-based global supercomputer that launched in 2015 to serve as the foundation for an ecosystem of interoperable, decentralized applications (dApps) powered by token economies and automated smart contracts.

This trust framework extends to the software that runs Web3 platforms: key operations can be encoded on the blockchain in “smart contracts” that are auditable and immutable. This makes it possible for a platform designer to commit upfront to certain design features, such as pricing rules, royalty agreements, and user reward mechanics.

The key difference between the web3 world and web2 world comes down to who owns user information.

I’d describe my time from 2015-2020 (when the book will be published) in three distinct phases: Phase I: 2015-2016: Discovery, exploration, initial research, hypothesis generation (funded by the Ford Foundation); Phase II: 2016-2018: Experience, experimenting, hypothesis testing (working at GitHub); Phase III: 2018-2020: Refining, summarizing,... See more