Lillian Sheng

Magic Eden filled a major gap in the market: in a crowded field of NFT marketplaces, it was focused exclusively on Solana, with an emphasis on user experience and lowering the barriers to entry for NFT creators.

The secret to Snappr’s success is that the Shoots business feeds the Workflows business, in four main ways:

1. Enterprises need national supply (photographers and editors) overnight, which is impossible to build on its own. When they call, you need to be ready, or you blow your chance. So you might try to build up the supply network ahead of demand,

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State of the ownership economy in 2022

The other fraction is friends who work in non-internet or media-related industries or have lived in second or third-tier cities. They don’t shop very often on catalogue-based e-commerce platforms and gave surprising answers for buying from livestreams: “Catalogue-style e-commerce seems like a scam, with livestream, you can at least buy from a real... See more

Leverage distribution from proprietary systems

In contrast, TikTok integrated the explore-exploit process into one tab. You never had to decide which tab to view—you just had to swipe to the next video when you were done with the current one. You also never had to follow anyone to see great content, because the app learned about your taste as you watched videos.

Roosevelt Administration’s New Deal dealt the final blow to end American company towns by raising minimum wages, encouraging industrial self-governance, and pushing for the owners of company towns to “consider the question of plans for eventual employee ownership of homes”.

There are three core jobs-to-be-done of a democracy: