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The atomic unit of a media enterprise is the creator. It always has been. But, now armed with new mediums and technologies, more and more creators are becoming standalone businesses.

According to our survey, investors are keen on capitalizing while startups look for additional capital to fuel growth while valuations driven by the market correction are still low.

Verishop is one in a hopeful generation of third-party marketplaces. This new cohort includes competitors like Italic and Verticale. Despite the next generation’s current momentum, the most powerful marketplace isn’t one of them. Audience is the weighted advantage in social commerce, which makes the most powerful eCommerce marketplace Instagram.

That said, the scary short term goal is: I want to help ~100 people become truly excellent friendly ambitious nerd media stars in the next ~3 years.

People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos

So Stripe’s job is to be the buyer of first resort: the “demand-side signal” that a market exists for carbon removal. It is guaranteeing, in some ways, the existence of a future market for direct carbon removal.

Pre-internet games were sold in stores and teams that had worked on it moved on. With the Internet came “connected games” that allowed ongoing updates. Latest trend: games adding many meta layers which are aimed to keep users engaged often with no real connection to the game itself (live concerts in games, a card collection or virtual pet layer whi... See more