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The last hundreds of billions of dollars in value creation was innovation that gave people convenience. Businesses, leveraging new technology and business models, gave people their time and attention back. The next wave of innovation will help people spend that time and attention better

If you are not leveraging *all* of the growth [motions] x [levers] combos below in your growth model, you will be disrupted by competition who will.💡Strategy is not about which 3x3 option to pick, but rather when and how to sequence them all.

I was at Amzn early '00s when we lost 95% of our market cap. Later at FB I negotiated a down-round in '09, and then in '12 our stock dropped 50% post-IPO. I was on the board of a public company that went bankrupt (Borders) and a start-up that went under (Hello). Some lessons:

Crypto can help creators in four main areas:

Today’s platforms have prioritized their ability to behaviourally target and gamify the experience to keep users hooked, over enhancing peer-to-peer connections. The consequence is that today I wake up many a day and ask myself why am I bothering to use this?

The promise of a single, connected society, one that enables its citizens to reach their f

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Mercedes Bent: The greatest income arbitrage exists when an emerging new form of income develops and few have the skills and platform knowledge to transact. To keep up with the increasingly fast rate of change, people will need to learn new skills faster than ever.

There is a difference between moving fast and rushing. You can move fast and be thoughtful. When you rush, you sacrifice thoughtfulness. Conversely, when you are thoughtful but not moving fast, you are overthinking it. Procrastination in disguise. Don’t rush, but don’t wait.