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(1) autonomy, the extent to which we have the ability to control our own lives, “to do our own thing”

After a decade of inaction, web2 platforms have finally woken up to the need to help their creators make money. This was instigated by TikTok’s $2B Creator Fund, but has resulted in dozens of similar funds and new features across Snap, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and even LinkedIn.
Meanwhile, web3 platforms are pioneering a new form of... See more

• Bezos announced his intention to offer the lowest prices possible while providing a world-leading customer experience


• This combination seemed paradoxical to some 


• Henry Ford’s philosophy for building companies could be distilled into five words: “Maximum service at minimum costs” 


• Henry Ford did not want to make a low-quality, inexpensive product;

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Stripe Treasury is “a banking-as-a-service API that lets you embed financial services in your marketplace or platform.” Simply, by writing a few lines of code, platforms can let their customers set up bank accounts at partner banks like Goldman Sachs and Evolve Bank & Trust.

Solving the problem of incentivizing creative work that endures: Most media distribution and monetization models incentivize quantity over quality. Newspapers, radio networks, podcasts, magazines, books, movies, and on and on receive the lion’s share of their revenue in a short window after release. It is increasingly hard for any medium to have... See more

In traditional finance, an entrepreneur has to address each country separately. Whereas Bitcoin is open to everyone globally from day one.