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Investors consider the gaming industry unpredictable: building a “hit” game is a mixture of art/magic, a bit like investing in movies.

To benchmark offers, companies currently pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for manually collected annual compensation data; this data is immediately stale and often difficult for companies to put in their own context. Employees and candidates suffer, too. They are often left in the dark about how to interpret and value the equity portion of thei... See more

Under the pressure of our higher standards, we’ve learned to compress the coal of social media into diamonds of micro-entertainment.

What advice would you give to help people start shifting their bonus system to something more along the lines of this?

Faced with opaque systems operated by wealthy global companies, it is hardly surprising that many assume the lack of transparency exists to serve the interests of technology elites and not users. In the long run, people are only going to feel comfortable with these algorithmic systems if they have more visibility into how they work and then have th... See more

The problem for blogs was always search, audience capture, monetization, and the impulse to blather about nothing. I think the transition of essays out of blogs and into newsletters effectively solved these problems, since now the incentives incline more toward quality rather than quantity.

Many (if not most) successful Substacks are built on the back of pithy tweets. Substack offers minimal to no demand aggregation so creators with large Twitter followings funnel their followers to their email newsletter. Similarly, TikTok stars also point their viewers to their Youtube page because Youtube offers more robust monetization options.

We need tokenization-in-the-box startups (or at least great agencies specializing in this) to enable this product for interested founders.

The point is – millions of gamers are incredibly passionate, dedicated and very willing to invest substantial time & resources into digital worlds that they care about… even when there is little or no profit motive.