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- Barstool Sports Content Model: - Find amazing talent - Give them a platform - Provide them with the infrastructure to succeed - Align incentives so they don’t leave This is the model for the next generation of media companies
- For me, at least in this space, even from the beginning, I knew that parts of it were against the odds, and so, what I mean by that, is if you know the category that I’m working within is childcare, it’s already an inherently margin challenged kind of category. What I mean by that, what parents are willing and able to pay for this kind of work, and... See more
from What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac | Y Combinator by Y Combinator
- - Start with one product/ solution (not two, not ten. One thing!)
from Direct-to-Consumer opportunities in MENA by Imad El Fay
- Legumes, for example, are deficient in sulfur-based amino acids
from [Transcript] - The Latest Research On Longevity, Ketones, Caffeine, Creatine, Sleep, Plant Vs. Animal Protein Intake, My New Book Boundless & Much More! - Ben Greenfield Life - Health, Diet,... by Ben Greenfield
- In a certain sense, any company with employees engaged in audience building could shift a traditional brand into a platform. For example, Alexis Gay was hired in a Partnerships role at Patreon in 2018, with Twitter followers numbering in the hundreds. According to Linkedin, she recently left the company with ~82,000 followers after her TikTok taked... See more
from Work and Let Work: Three Models for Managing Political Conflict by junglegym.substack.com
- Founders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.
from morals by Molly Mielke
a fundamental tension with being a founder
Is there a way for A.I. to do something other than sharpen the knife blade of capitalism?
from Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang
- The easy money to be made speculating on crypto assets seems to have distracted developers and investors from the hard work of building useful real-world services.
from Why it's too early to get excited about Web3 by Tim O’Reilly
- If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
from Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann