Lillian Sheng

Standards help teams save time and money by giving them a common language for how their products can interact with other products, eliminating the need to build each component within a market or re-define how systems communicate with each other.

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

Things You Can Learn From  Toast as a Vertical SaaS?

• DoorDash is partnering with generalist and specialized retailers which are aggregated on the DoorDash marketplace. DoorDash manages the deliveries from the store network of these partners. Retailers can also leverage DoorDash last mile delivery network to sell and deliver their products in less than 30 minutes on their proprietary channels.


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To standardize design production, best-in-class organizations are now implementing a design system which is a library of design components (e.g. a button, a menu, a banner, a checkbox), design tokens (a color, an icon, a typo, etc.) as well as guidelines to use them.Specify is bringing design system management to the next level with a single design... See more

Toward vs. Away To understand the distinction between toward and away, you can think of a researcher in a lab trying to guide a mouse through a maze.

Companies face two main types of risk – market and execution – and if they’re lucky, a third: competition.

A Vertically Integrated Player