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Beyond collecting and storing information, new tools for thought allow users to resurface, connect, and generate knowledge. Whether visual or textual, this new breed of tools encourage users to link their ideas together, find interesting patterns, and create original content based on their research.

The way I look at a social network is that there is a two-sided market. You can do distribution, you can do monetization. With YouTube or Spotify, it is both acquiring an audience and it is monetizing those users. In Web2 those two things are bundled. I think that there is a really interesting opportunity right now to unbundle those two things.

ven so, the question remains: does a social network of just two people actually work?

And yes, creators need some stability, they need distribution, they need some predictability in their income, they need to be able to feel like they're staying safe. They need to be able to feel like they can express themselves comfortably. And so I'm trying to meet all of those needs, for all creators. I want to be clear I care about big creators... See more

Step Two: Unbundle Students from Universities Universities could continue to exist as a combination of a local community and a filtering mechanism. A university is still a great way to find friends or a partner, assuming it continues to filter out people you're unlikely to have as close of a relationship with.