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Grubhub was early to the food delivery game and unlike its VC-backed competitors, it was consistently profitable. That its business model worked should have given Grubhub a leg up, but what it actually meant was that the company was playing a different game from competitors bloated with venture capital and untethered to things like profit and unit ... See more

A service will succeed if (1) it addresses a real, outstanding customer want/need; (2) at an appropriate price or value to the consumer; and (3) while generating sustainable economics.

Just as humans are incapable of generating random numbers, we struggle to consciously generate random ideas - to the point where actively trying to ‘think differently’ often seems to only further calcify existing patterns. Instead of attempting to brute-force creativity, the brain must be confronted with novel stimuli in order to reorganize its per

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Some Friday thoughts on Why Some Ppl Make So Much Money?? (and some thoughts on solving wealth inequality)...

Bringing non-designers into the process is what gives designers a seat at the table of product and business decisions.

I want to write about Play to Earn / player owned economies in the context of monetary policy history, global macro trends, and game evolution. Also want to draw out some of the key assumptions that have to hold in order for a metaverse to succeed. Insights also apply to NFTs👇🏼

-Payments (macro and micro): So long as cryptocurrencies require their users to have impeccable key management, blockchains can’t solve the peer-to-peer payments problem. Parallel to this, many economies are making big leaps forward in the ease of traditional payments. Look at Venmo in the U.S., M-Pesa in Africa, or AliPay and WeChat Pay in China. ... See more