Lillian Sheng
@lillian
Lillian Sheng
In other words, you should be failing about 15% of the time despite your best efforts. Why? Because it’s at this level of difficulty that you unleash peak motivation, focus, and growth.
every.to • The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
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How is a food-delivery platform like DoorDash building an alternative value proposition by partnering with old-school retailers?
Alexandre Dewez • 🌶 An Update on Grocery Quick Commerce
- Being the record system. For restaurants, Toast's platform is at the core of their business. Toast started with the POS which put the solution at the center of their customer operations as all transactions passed through the POS. It was a great position to become the tech backbone of their customers.
Alexandre Dewez • 🍻 Toast - The Ultimate Vertical SaaS For Restaurants
Vine’s “Find Friends” process was comparatively heavy, too. You had four tabs available: contacts, Twitter, Facebook, and search. Should you trust this new app with your contact list? Should you follow people from your address book, Twitter, or Facebook? Would people think it’s weird if you follow them? Should you feel bad if they don’t follow you... See more
Every • The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea
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%?
Packy McCormick • Snappr: Building API-First, Last
Given the strength of recommendation media platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and the way traditional social media platforms are chasing them, it seems likely Professional Media platforms (such as Netflix) may try to follow suit (in fact, Netflix’s co-CEO, Reed Hastings, may have even foreshadowed this when he famously stated that his biggest... See more
Michael Mignano • The End of Social Media - Every
By controlling the whole value chain, goPuff is also able to build a business model with proven positive unit economics. On the supply side, goPuff is able to cut intermediaries and order products directly from CPG brands that it will resell to the end customers with a healthy premium. On the delivery side, goPuff's warehouses are used only for... See more
Alexandre Dewez • 🍿 A Deep-dive into goPuff's Strategy to Conquer the Grocery Market
Moreover, with social media, individuals can customize and optimize their information environments, such that they only virtually see the information they want to see and only meet the people they want to meet. To formulate it differently, individuals can easily avoid information and people they do not wish to encounter online. The evolution in... See more