An example of such a value leakage is Twitter being widely used by Substack writers to drive growth for their newsletters, and Substack is where a creator will effectively put their best content and exchange value.
In my experience most of the companies are run by highly creative, idealistic people. Many of them started off with products that were optimized for the needs of the users and community and almost all of them ended up optimized for the needs of the company.
One comes in the form of NewNew, a start-up in Los Angeles, that describes its product as creating a “human stock market.” On the app, fans pay to vote in polls to control some of a creator’s day-to-day decisions.