Lillian Sheng

Most of the people who talk about user ownership of networks are focused on creating new city-states based on blockchain technology and egalitarian ideals, but comparatively little attention has been paid to reforming existing networks based on these same principles. I think this is a mistake.

Growing a waitlist

For Snappr, the risk is obvious: execution.  Building a marketplace business and operating it at scale is really hard. It’s hard to keep both sides of the market happy. It’s hard to maintain quality – what happens when there’s so much demand that Snappr needs to drop its quality bar from the top 10% of applicants to the top 20%?   

getting nft/virtual plots/something that doesn't have permanent or expiring value is an interesting twist to traditional gifting.

We’re moving, or so it seems, to a world where we’re no longer making anything in this country; we’re merely trading pieces of paper, swapping stocks and bonds back and forth with one another, and paying our financial croupiers a veritable fortune. We’re also adding even more costs by creating ever more complex financial derivatives in which huge a... See more

Slightly controversial aesthetics cater to the leading edge of consumer culture, a large population willing to spend money in order to maintain its status. As this group consumes, the cultural Overton window shifts to accommodate more and more radical aesthetics, which lose their novel status as they become normalized. The cultural normalcy spectru... See more

1. moment-based experiences

Trade-offs Since adopting RSS saves podcast listening apps an enormous amount of time and money by not forcing them to reinvent the way content flows through the podcasting ecosystem, it means the barriers to finding an audience for these apps is lower. As a result, many of these apps exist, and thus a tremendous amount of market fragmentation has ... See more