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— Jayvee Nava, VP of Community at Peloton

Unlike going to Substack to catch up on some newsletters (which as you know by reading mine, takes time) — TikTok unlocks rapid dopamine hits. Making it “an ideal app” to open up when you have even a minute of idle time.

In the US, entrepreneur Sam Bernstein radically pivoted his business LoftSmart, a student rental marketplace, to relaunch as Table22. Since March, the company has been working with restaurants to help them provide a suite of online services, including takeaway meals and virtual wine tastings and cooking classes.

Customers win slightly - they have more choice on the surface, but we’re all offering the same thing, and because we’re paying so much to acquire them, we don’t have room for major discounts now that venture capital isn’t bankrolling us as heavily.

Pinduoduo, meaning “together, more savings, more fun”, eliminated layers of middlemen and flipped the retailing model from being supply-driven to demand-driven. The team used a mobile-first approach that gave it a fundamentally different product DNA than incumbents. It used fruit as a wedge to combine consumption with entertainment and created a ve... See more

NFT-based project to gain mindshare (and right now 95%+ of the market volume is

memory is central to problem solving and creativity.