Lillian Sheng
@lillian
Lillian Sheng
- You need to be a vertical expert to succeed. 2/3 of Toast employees previously worked in a restaurant which makes it easier to build and sell the right product for restaurants.
Alexandre Dewez • 🍻 Toast - The Ultimate Vertical SaaS For Restaurants
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.
Lillian Li • Internet and the murmurs of post-modernity in China
“This is water.”
jamesclear.com • "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
Augmented Reality Capabilities
Alexandre Dewez • 📽 Snap. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Creating a UX where users had to decide on virtually nothing—and the app just learned from their behavior—was TikTok's monster idea in an otherwise crowded boneyard. Everything else about its product and network grew from the powerful way that it connected consumers to creators without explicit follow actions.
Every • The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea
Fusion → Defusion
Casey Rosengren • How To Do Hard Things
When you bathe people in a way of thinking you can get them to change.
every.to • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
Another key tactic that helped drive growth was migrating liquidity for existing collections. “We found that we couldn’t migrate liquidity for existing collections that were already on other marketplaces,” Zhuoxun said. They also recognized that many top existing collections wanted their own white-labeled marketplace, so they offered to build them... See more