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In light of this seeming conflict, what can we learn from Crocs — and from other brands that have engineered varying rebirths? Are there shared factors across consumer companies that lead to resilience across trend cycles and longer periods of time?

For NFTs to reach their true potential, we need to build much farther-reaching consumption experiences. And to not repeat the same mistakes of our current digital era, we need these platforms to maintain a decentralized ethos.

Consumers are demonstrating that they are the greatest marketing force a good television show or movie could ever have, given the powerful social media tools at consumers’ disposal.

Of course, there’s nothing necessarily impressive about laying a brick. It’s not a fantastic amount of work. It’s not a grand feat of strength or stamina or intelligence. Nobody is going to applaud you for it.  But laying a brick every day, year after year? That’s how you build an empire.

The importance of Plaid and the API market more broadly cannot be overstated—an entire generation of neobanks, lenders, and financial management tools have been made possible through programmatic access to bank transaction data.