Sam Blumenthal

Since users own their data, they can bring it to any application built on top of Lens Protocol. As the true owners of their content, creators no longer need to worry about losing their content, audience, and livelihood based on the whims of an individual platform's algorithms and policies. Additionally, each application using the Lens Protocol... See more

While this motivation may be latent—even subconscious, for most—in the U.S., it’s an economic driver that’s well understood in China, fueling a thriving video ecommerce market. In Asia, the powerful force of video entertainment shopping has spawned a livestream ecommerce industry akin to professional movie production. It’s more than a place where... See more

On the flip side with regard to Miquela, some may argue, is that she’s more real than many ’real’ influencers. For starters, she acknowledges that she is a robot. And she speaks the truth. She was brought to life around the same time the world realized how detrimental social media could be. She makes us question what is real and our parameters of... See more

“Thrasio’s success comes from the ability to take that marketplace data and do something smart with it where there was no ability to to that before,” said Ari Horowitz, a former Thrasio executive and now co-founder and CEO of New York-based Yardline Capital, a fintech startup providing funds to professional Amazon sellers. “The genius was... See more

Once creators have earned consumers’ attention in a crowded bar called Twitch or Facebook, BYOA is the creator version of: “let’s get out of here, I know a spot😉”.  OnlyFans has grown on the back of Reddit as a free marketing channel, where adult content creators market themselves through popular R-rated subreddits. Reddit itself is not conducive... See more