Sam Blumenthal

The backdrop for Tophatter’s new approach is gaming’s overall rise in the U.S., which has pushed retailers and brands to experiment with gaming-adjacent platforms like Twitch. (Twitch has nearly tripled the number of monthly broadcasts it has hosted since 2019, bringing it up to 9.7 million monthly streams today.) In-game transactions, called... See more

+ Thesis on Hyperpigmentation & The 'Beyond Acne' Consumer

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

In livestreaming e-commerce, however, AI hosts are still new players, according to experts from e-commerce platform Alibaba.

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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