Lillian Sheng

My second prescription for misery is to learn everything you possibly can from your own personal experience, minimizing what you learn vicariously from the good and bad experience of others, living and dead. This prescription is a sure-shot producer of misery and second-rate achievement.

1. A single source of truth: Clay can connect to Calendar, Email, Twitter, iMessage, LinkedIn to extract a broad spectrum of signals on how you interact with people.

The workers formed a committee and on May 7 went to Pullman to ask to have the rent lowered. On May 7 and 9, they were flatly refused. Three of the committee members were then terminated. This caused the workers to declare that they were going to strike, and on May 10, 1894 they walked off of their jobs. Then on May 11, 1894 the Pullman Plant... See more

In the coming years, Toast will center its growth strategy on (i) acquiring new customers & upselling existing customer base in North America, (ii) expanding its platform by releasing new product features and adding new partners to its open ecosystem, (iii) expanding geographically beyond North America, (iv) acquiring companies mainly to expand... See more

Company towns often become regular public cities and towns as they grew and attracted other business enterprises, pool transportation and services infrastructure. Other times, a town may not officially be a company town, but it may be a town where the majority of citizens are employed by a single company, thus creating a similar situation to a... See more

The ownership economy is big and growing DAOs, decentralized autonomous organizations, are online communities owned and governed by their members. They can be thought of as the organizational building blocks that make up web3’s economic, social, and cultural landscape.