Sam Blumenthal

Consumers feel empowered and perceive greater value when receiving currency in their app instead of recieving points. For many, brands are an identity symbol. Let's say Gucci identifies you as an ambassador and airdrops Gucci tokens to you as a thank you for posting positively about the brand across social media using your “GucciCoin” public tag.... See more

Creative works are social objects in the fullest sense — they exist in a nexus of social, cultural, and legal links to other people and things, and they are only valuable to the extent they can fully participate in their whole context. Rights regimes restrict known rights, but also create rights if they are well designed, driving generativity.

In a time when shoppers are wary of being in physical shopping centers due to the pandemic, retailers, brands and social media apps have all jumped on the shoppable live content playing field in some way. In recent months, Nordstrom announced over 50 interactive livestream events, Facebook partnered with Anne Klein to debut its live in-app shopping... See more

For many industries, the means of production will essentially follow the call-response of  “Engineer X in the Design of Y”.

Depending on the context of the desired objective, there will be a line of best fit that optimally coordinates the two variables and denotes product-market-fit. Solving this function, i.e. being able to determine the optimal

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