Lisa Grimm

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Why the Democrats Lost Tech

And How to Win it Back

Jul 23

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Independent internet-native creators leverage the internet’s frictionless content creation and distribution, but they’re still trapped by traditional business models like subscriptions and advertising.

A subscription model is based on the promise of the production of future gated content. A publication or creator is paid to continue production, not ... See more

The feeling after a release sells out is euphoric. The kind of clear-cut validation that’s rare for creative people. When we’ve spoken with creators after their Metalabel drops have sold out they’ve felt celebrated and seen. We get to put our imposter syndrome aside and enjoy the moment.

But beware! We should not always aim to sell out. As we’ve lea... See more

When content production and distribution is infinite, the important aspect is its primary function in crafting and proliferating culture*.* In other words, the value of content today comes primarily from its use in cultural production.

any time there’s a big decision to be made that consumes resources (time and money), human involvement is key

For creative people this hits especially hard as social media’s invention of “personal brands,” “influencers,” and the “Creator Economy” turned the few remaining aspects of life that hadn’t yet been marketized into the last ways we could make a living without working for somebody else. Gradually and then suddenly creative people found themselves do... See more

As a country, it seems that we’ve conflated the debate about how to redistribute prosperity with a debate about whether we should have prosperity at all. We can afford to have the redistribution debate only because we have the prosperity, and we have prosperity because of our combination of talent, resources, technology, and a rule of law that prot... See more

Loved this description featured in ActionDigest from investor Chris Paik re: navigating a major innovation period in tech, “each time a new shift occurs, it is analogous to the formation of an unstable radioactive isotope. The radioactivity throws off a huge amount of energy in the form of capturable enterprise value, but is subject to half-life de... See more

Celebrity cookbooks are curious beasts, brand extensions of public figures we often do not associate with eating. Sometimes, the results are charming and unexpected: see, for example, titles from Snoop Dogg, Sophia Loren, Dolly Parton, and Valerie Bertinelli. Sometimes, they aren’t. Regardless, all celebrity cookbooks telegraph the same underlying,... See more