Mo Shafieeha

Context plays a major role in the success and survival of platform businesses. Competitive approaches commoditize network elements, easy entry, replacement of network components, and competitive approaches commoditize parts of the network. Java's users have network effects, but they have no profitable relationship. Therefore, a company's... See more

Building a trustworthy platform is hard, but it's necessary if you want it. These practices are already paying off daily. Adopting quality in our culture is the most crucial and decisive factor in getting there. All parts of our platform are affected by our reliability culture.

To build a successful company, you ultimately need revenue. Many startups, tech or otherwise, fail. A $500 ticket and a $5 fee from the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same as selling $500 of software. People have been saying things I thought I'd never have to, like "getting to a positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar... See more

Rule 3: Read History for Fragments, Not Lessons

Growth incentives Compound, an on-chain lending protocol, decentralized itself in June 2020, with its core developers turning over the network's operation and ownership. Community members had control over the protocol's reserve assets generated by borrowers in a Compound Governance DAO. This was (at the time) the highest revenue generated by an... See more

Community as the killer app for web3, owned by the people leading and participating in them, and orchestrated by tokens.Communities Beat Individuals Any Day of the Week.