Overall, building subscription businesses is a great way to incentive creators to make their best content. Paying for content is a signal that users trust and value content creators instead of relying on ads to pay for content creation.
Faire is a B2B marketplace that connects local, independent retailers with brands. In a world where you can order anything online and receive it within two days, independent retailers still travel to multiple trade shows each year, where they make procurement decisions based on gut instinct. Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to ... See more
Before I ever heard of Breaker, I wanted someone to build a “socially-sorted” podcast app that would help me listen to a wider variety of shows based on episode-level recommendations from friends
I read for understanding. So with a really good book, I'll flip through it. I won't actually read it in consecutive order. I might not even finish it. I'm looking for ideas and things that I don't understand. When I find something really interesting, I'll reflect on it, research it, and then when I'm bored of it, I'll drop it or I'll flip to anothe... See more
Instead of presuming that optimal institutional solutions can be designed easily and imposed at low cost by external authorities, I argue that "getting the institutions right" is a difficult, time-consuming, conflict-invoking process.