Lillian Sheng

Twitter isn’t a social network as much as it is a professional network.

1. StorytellingMany companies in their early beginnings rally people behind anything but the actual product.But Clay rallied people behind a story: David Rockefeller (third generation of the Rockefeller family) gathered over 100,000 index cards without ver 200,000 meticulously crafted notes of every person he had met throughout his life. The... See more

Hypothesis 3: The "innovation as mining" hypothesisThe "innovation as mining" hypothesis says that ideas naturally get harder to find over time, in both science and art. So we should expect that it takes more and more effort over time to maintain the same rate of innovation.

The grocery value chain is highly fragmented and new players operate on a variety of segments: restaurant delivery (Deliveroo), multi-product delivery (Glovo), grocery personal shopper (Instacart), and instant delivery shopping (GoPuff or Gorillas). Such actors can be both competitors and partners for traditional retailers. Faced with such... See more

The MCN companies that nurture stars have a meagre yield rate. It is widely acknowledged that without them, there would be no saleable commodity such as a celebrity or a livestreamer. So the tension between the company and the star arises.

How Seth makes sure to ship work that is important enough