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I was talking to a friend about why we decided to invite only paying believers to the Sublime private beta. My answer is that charging early for a product creates high expectations, and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product you love and trust. My answer is that growing Sublime the right way is more... See more

With the advent of blogs, social media, YouTube channels, and other distribution platforms, you no longer had to rely on gatekeepers to attract people to your curiosities. Your uniqueness became an asset, not a liability. And as more creator-friendly tools were introduced into the landscape, it expanded your ability to make money doing something... See more

-Rewarding early supporters with exclusive access to content: 3LAU gives his users exclusive access to unreleased songs or new opportunities to engage with him. To qualify to purchase some of the pieces in 3LAU’s latest sale, users need to own previous 3LAU NFTs.

A token can acquire a user, but it can’t retain them—for that, users have to collectively decide that the project and the token are actually worth something to them practically, socially, and emotionally.

Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around

you could think of a tipping business model as a call option on human nature. People who are bullish on business models like this are bullish on the underlying asset class—humanity. Skeptics, on the other hand, are humanity bears. 

Now: Build the distribution, then build the product