Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
First, it's OK if your distribution insight starts as a hack.
For Airbnb, their early approach was cross-posting room listings to Craigslist where people were already desperately searching for places to stay.
Airbnb had the inventory craiglist needed, and they took off.
Julian Shapirox.comFabrik - Where Communities Thrive
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Donnelly and Schrantz are arguing for a major shift: “a long-overdue scaled investment in community organizing around the country.” I agree 100%, especially because I concur with them that how we do politics now, as a purely transactional process of extracting votes from people, has contributed to the crisis of democracy and the allure of... See more
"There are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs." — Thomas Sowell
Memory Banks | Are.na Editorial
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Titled “A Bigger We,” FTF’s report argues that today’s democracy crisis is rooted in a crisis of agency, in that most Americans rarely, if ever, experience themselves as having the collective ability to change the world they live in. Or, to put it in a simpler vernacular: people don’t give a shit because they don’t think they matter. And too often,... See more
Opinion | Giving Kids Some Autonomy Has Surprising Results
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