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

Katie: Not everything in crypto is decentralized in terms of business models. For example, Coinbase is a centralized exchange. Like Coinbase, OpenSea is centralized. The difference between the tech giants and OpenSea is that OpenSea takes a modest take rate on every sale. The powerful difference is that the vast majority of the money that is being ... See more

68% of students still have concerns about the quality and prestige of online learning environments. For new learning pathways to reach the mainstream, more of these items in @eriktorenberg's list will have to be adapted online. https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1232193193606729728... See more

Before the pandemic, delivery apps made sense to drive incremental sales for restaurants that primarily made money on dine-in customers, says Chris Monk, founder and chief executive of Your Fare, an Austin, Texas-based startup that sells a system to restaurants for consolidating orders from delivery services. For most restaurants, though, the math ... See more

While blogs could in theory be read by anyone with a browser, the technology that really mattered on the consumer side were RSS readers – and those were never adopted en masse.

the most important job of the office is “soft work”—the sort of banter that allows for long-term trust and innovation.

Video games are an internet mall, it’s where people can hang out, meet new people, and shop

We no longer learn about the world from institutions, or even the illusion of them. We learn about the world from people we care about. This binds our sense of truth to tribal identity, and that is a powerful, fundamentally emotional connection.