Lillian Sheng

Decline of American company towns By the 1920s the need for company towns had declined significantly due to increased national affluence. Despite income inequalities and a relatively low standard of living conditions amongst factory laborers, the prosperity of the 1920s saw workers’ material well-being improve significantly.

Jow is a personal shopper which helps consumers prepare their grocery basket based on suggested recipes. Orders are sent to partners and retailers who are onboarded on the platform, such as Carrefour and most retailers in France. Jow is on a mission to change radically the way we do our grocery shopping.

Setting the bar Magic Eden views itself as a steward of the ecosystem—one that is a standard-bearer in the NFT space, carrying a higher degree of responsibility to its users. In a world in which web3 apps are notoriously challenging for newcomers to use, Jack takes the opposite stance, arguing that Magic Eden ought to feel similar to using a web2... See more

2. Capture low intent customers/Top of the funnelRelated but different to assessing demand is capturing low intent customers. This is the case when working in a domain that has a high price point, requires a high trust threshold and/or a meaningful investment in customer education.

Experiential Avoidance →Willingness

Gamification features open up new dimensions for an app:1. Retention: owning the user through owning their time. If the app aims to maintain and increase user’s attention real-estate, mini-games encourages frequent app check-ins, increases usage frequency, DAUs and improves retention.  The one KPI that Chinese super-apps all adhere to is the... See more

The cost of social media Built-in distribution for content to social networks has meant that people can share and spread problematic content just as easily as they spread good-natured content. If a bad actor wants to share problematic content on social media, the content can spread fast because of the guaranteed distribution to the person’s network... See more

Aristocratic tutoring was not focused on measurables. Historically, it usually involved a paid adult tutor, who was an expert in the field, spending significant time with a young child or teenager, instructing them but also engaging them in discussions, often in a live-in capacity, fostering both knowledge but also engagement with intellectual... See more

To ensure that level of accountability, Magic Eden has a comprehensive screening process for new hires. Before every new person joins, they do a one-week work trial at the company, during which they’re onboarded and work alongside the rest of the team. This approach has been successful—the team is now over 100 people.