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The future of retail will be about retail everywhere:

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The rapid development of platforms and services that empower individuals to build a business around themselves is a major one. Top talent wants more control and ownership over their work, having options to transcend their reputation and financial success from a parent brand.

Taken together, new technologies and financial products are blurring the lines between investing, consuming, experiencing, and participating. COVID was a catalyst; will the shift persist?

- In effect, it’s as if “You’re putting out the bat signal for the people who are the same type of weird as you” – *Chris Best*

Wei and Kim aren’t the first founders to see a business opportunity in the gap between traditional institutions and a rising class of new digital entrepreneurs. Brex, the startup that offers charge cards for other startups, got started in 2017, after its cofounders saw how people who couldn’t get business credit were paying for startup expenses on... See more

- Perhaps the most common desire was for a brainstorming partner; participants envisioned a tool that provided ideas a writer could riff off or helped with overcoming writer’s block. DH noted how brainstorming functionality would be especially useful for novice writers. Multiple participants described to us their process for working with human

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