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“Rather than everyone looking up to the pulpit of The New York Times, what we have much more of is individuals, people with millions of followers —like PewDiePie, who has more reach on YouTube than any brand or corporation…Nobody really knows where to look. There’s nobody at the front, and it seems like we have this cacophony of noise, and as a... See more

• A hundred thousand songs are uploaded daily to streaming platforms.


• In the last year 1.7 million books were self-published.


• 2,500 videos are uploaded to YouTube each minute.


• There are now 3 million podcasts—and 30 million podcast episodes were released last year.


• 86% of youngsters want to grow up to become influencers, and contribute to these

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Wander is different because we own 100% of the homes on our platform, which means we have complete control over the quality (high), the technology (smart), and the locations (inspiring). With our app, guests have total home operation at their fingertips –– from unlocking the door to setting the temperature to turning on the fireplace to adjusting... See more

We began with the idea that underpins all of Girard’s theories––imitation. Conflict between people, he believes, is rooted in our propensity for imitation or in what he calls “mimetic desire”—an idea that began to take shape for him through his study of the great European novelists.

Some believe that decentralization requires the entire social network to be on a blockchain. This is unnecessary and even undesirable. Social networks generate petabytes of data every year, which can be very expensive to store on-chain. Blockchains also make it difficult to delete data forever, which is a desirable feature for users. A network... See more

In 2019, vegan milk took up 14% of all dollar sales for retailed milk in the United States, which equates to more than 620 million units sold in just one year. Across the United States, plant-based milk is now purchased by 41% of households.

After binge-watching the entire writing catalog of Masterclass in a few days, I’m not sure whether I’ve become a better writer, but I’ve sure become more eloquent talking about the “act of writing” when I attend my next book club.

We've also seen "the enterprization of the consumer." I'll discuss this trend further next week, but there's an increasing set of products that focus on acquiring consumers, and helping them in turn become entrepreneurs.