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Holly Liu: By changing the economics of expertise in gaming, virtual game worlds today can impact the real world, for the first time. With trends such as play-to-earn games, the rise of livestreaming, and the growing contingent of esports pros, players — not just game publishers! — can now create value for the entire community and get paid.... See more

On mobile, Google still has to pony up $5-10B per year (and rising) to remain the default search engine on iOS.

The best feature of the four-year research university isn’t career or education or personal development per se, but the ultimate community: a lifelong identity tied to a physical place, with thousands of other people, harboring hundreds of distinct self-sustaining tribes mired in decades and centuries of tradition and stories and identities. The... See more

However, the companies that benefited the most from these improvements aren’t the underlying technology providers – it’s the affiliates themselves. Credit Karma and Honey are the two headliners (both were acquired earlier this year), but other successful companies leveraging an affiliate marketing model include Ebates (acquired for $1B by Rakuten... See more

Prevent providers from ordering a lot of services because the government determines which services will be covered and at what rates.