Lillian Sheng

In contrast, for crypto projects, giving users ownership can function as marketing, drawing in new users through the promise of ownership and increasing engagement as a result of having skin in the game.

Why is Instagram pushing Reels so hard? The secular shift to video is scary on its own, but that’s actually easy compared to the other big trend Zuckerberg sees coming: algorithms showing you content from people you don’t follow. Facebook is massively behind TikTok and YouTube on this one.

Most of the people who talk about user ownership of networks are focused on creating new city-states based on blockchain technology and egalitarian ideals, but comparatively little attention has been paid to reforming existing networks based on these same principles. I think this is a mistake.

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

RSS has also been instrumental to enabling the consumption side of podcasting. Virtually all of the world’s podcast listening apps that exist in the world of podcasts (such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and many others) support the ingestion of RSS-powered podcasts. The benefit of doing so is huge: if a podcast listening app adopts this... See more

Avenues for growth One of the team’s strategies for expansion is evident in their clear intention to lean into a verticalized strategy around gaming. As more games launch with NFT elements, and Solana’s low fees and high speed naturally lend itself to gaming use cases, Magic Eden wants to play a bigger role in this ecosystem.

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

It is not a coincidence that many of the most formidable intellects of the 20th Century belonged to outcasts — Jews and gays, in particular — who grew up outside the "system," were barred from participating in it fully, or struggled to adapt to it. Consider some of Hoel's examples (and many others): Einstein, John Von Neumann, Hannah Arendt,... See more