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This is an adventure and adventures never go according to plan. That’s what makes them fun. And scary. And worth doing. That’s why you take a deep breath, surround yourself with great people, and head out into the wilderness.

Will all marketplaces become decentralized, issue tokens, and enable users to participate in governance? Maximally extractive folks will be disrupted first. Airbnb looks the same in 10 years because they provide as much value as they extract. But people hate Upwork so there is a strong incentive to disintermediate. Knowledge work marketplaces are s... See more

Technology is getting more advanced than ever, but people’s lives, paradoxically, don’t get any freer. Therefore, I believe the important role of human Curators is here to stay. If companies can integrate the Curator’s effect inside their app (like the example of Medium or Notion above), it’s likely they will enlarge their user base faster.

On Deck is building a modern, digitally native education platform at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional higher and continuing education.

By using crypto rails, you can issue tokens to your community to align incentives and supercharge growth. I think the coolest thing you could do with a newsletter token is give token holders a percentage of future earnings in the form of on-chain dividends. As revenue accrues to an on-chain treasury for the newsletter, token holders can periodicall... See more

Postmates and DoorDash pursued this growth-at-all cost mindset so aggressively that they listed restaurants and stores that weren’t even signed up for either service. Doing so let both scale supply faster than a sales team would have been able to, but it obliterated the unit economics early on. Because neither were integrated on the backend of the ... See more