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If all our customers vanished, and we had to earn our growth and brand from scratch, what would we do?

How would we distinguish ourselves with a unique compelling message, as a fresh competitor in our market? What would we put on our home page? Would we use a different pricing model to compete better? Would our brand need to change to align with the

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2021 was the year of profile picture (PFP) NFTs. Depending on how you value them, both CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club have total market caps (# of NFTs * price per NFT) of around $3 billion each. More than just a disconnected network of owners, though, the humans behind the NFT PFP formed communities, online and IRL. First, they met in Discor... See more

To me, this idea of opposing truths so aptly represents the current state of Web3. On one hand, I feel completely convinced that Web3 will fundamentally reshape many aspects of our world. On the other hand, I feel that using Web3 is simply way harder than it needs to be.

Brands are increasingly offering financial products to their customers, leveraging their $0 marginal distribution cost to compete against financial services providers with multi-year CAC payback periods. At SciFi, we believe that lending is the biggest opportunity in embedded finance, and that several successful Embedded Lenders will emerge in the ... See more

ChowNow now has 17,000 restaurants using its SaaS platform for take-out and delivery and is adding more than 2,000 / month right now (and trending up)

So it’s useful to ask what absolute power would reveal about Israel and Hamas. In other words, what would each side do if it had nukes and its enemies didn’t? Based on Hamas’s history, and its charter, which calls for the total obliteration of Israel, we can be confident they’d nuke Tel Aviv. And yet, if Israel had nukes, they wouldn’t nuke Palesti... See more