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-Empower more diverse creators to participate in the creator economy. Our hypothesis is that funding the long-tail of creators can create more long-term business impact than funding top creators who can already monetize in myriad ways and are highly sought after by many platforms.

I have found that it is remarkably helpful for members of a leadership team to spend time talking about their backgrounds. People who understand one another’s personal philosophies, family histories, educational experiences, hobbies, and interests are far more likely to work well together than those who do not.

Brief: Banks are increasingly replaceable. "Embedded finance" makes it easy to deliver financial services in context. Over time, that may result in money gravitating towards influencer-run financial institutions. This could have significant ramifications for how society manages its surplus.

Joe Krause said: "The 20th Century was about dozens of markets of millions of consumers. The 21st Century is about millions of markets of dozens of consumers."

Today, more than 30% of all new free subscriptions and around 10% of paid subscriptions to Substacks come from within our network.

Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game ... See more

3. ProductWhat problem are you solving?Why do users care?How is this better than what is out there? How big of a difference is this really?What are your major product milestones that are coming?What are the 2-3 key things your product lacks?What have you learned from the early version of the product?Product traction. What are the key metrics of use... See more