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- Private companies in the last 5+ years have had every incentive to forgo profitability for a different metric: growth.
from Food Delivery Wars: 3 Takeaways From The UberEats, Postmates, Grubhub, DoorDash Ecosystem—How It… by Sarah Tavel
- To achieve Model 3 volume production, Elon spent 3 years sleeping on the factory floor, in the trenches, with his team and workers. “It was the longest period of excruciating pain in my life […] but it had to be done, or Tesla would be dead” “I think at this point, I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth” – Elon Musk
from Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview by Chris Anderson
- Roblox is also an example of what the metaverse could look like- the new generation’s form of social media
from #550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats by Tim Ferriss
- Having recently passed 10m subs, NYT is shooting for 15m by 2027. If the bundling play works, news might become just a small part of the company’s business.
from The NYT’s next era isn’t about news - The Hustle by The Hustle
- Driving awareness of new products and services
from We studied 50+ startups on TikTok and here’s what we found by Li Jin
- Web 2.0 was about social graphs — follows, likes, comments. Web 3.0 is about social + economic graphs — NFTs you buy, projects you invest in, social tokens you earn. Company profiles on Crunchbase are an early example of economic graphs. For most startups, you can see who funded them, how much they received, and when the funding round took place.
from Designing Internet-Native Economies: A Guide to Crypto Tokens - Future by future.a16z.com
- Here are some of the tools we’ve built that make it easier for writers to get new subscribers and for readers to discover and fall in love with Substacks they might otherwise not have found:
from Substack generates 1 in 3 new subscriptions on the platform by Substack
,As it turns out, “knowing better” isn’t the secret to taking action, creating momentum, or doing the things we want to do. So many things take more than just knowing. And, as it turns out, trying to do everything alone, trying to keep our struggles secret, doesn’t do what we think it will do, either.
from Tending to the shame of stuckness by Lisa Olivera
- Unfortunately, we seem to have taken the worst aspects of in-person education and designed online education in the same image. Rows of desks facing a chalkboard have become isolated computer screens streaming pre-packaged videos.
from Come for the course, stay for the community by Jonathan Hillis