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- Feels inevitable that music will be huge in web3 as it has the biggest gap between consumer passion & monetization of any category
any classification seems to understate what it is
At VidSummit today, @MrBeast told @ColinandSamir that his six-person thumbnail team makes around 20 different versions per video. They plan what the thumbnail will be BEFORE they film the video. He also sends versions to close friends to measure which one to use #VidSummit2022thinking: there is a bias in decision-making which renders one big thing more important than lots of small things.
- 1/ Thread: The Wisdom of Crowd In 2007, @mjmauboussin wrote a paper on the wisdom of crowd, and showed with simple maths and experiments why the crowd can trump individuals. Some of the takeaways were VERY counterintuitive and it materially influenced my thinking.
It’s hard to get really depressed until your dreams come true. Once your dreams come true and you realize you feel the same way you did before then you get a feeling of hopelessness."
-Rick Rubin
- Big announcement! Team @microacquire and @AngelList are partnering up to make raising capital easy for startup acquisitions. 1. Create an SPV 2. Raise from investors 3. MicroAcquire startups Another game changer for M&A. For the love of startups! 🤘
- 1/9 Creating DAOs that improve human organizational capabilities is an ambitious goal and we are just scratching the surface. Most “DAOs” today are at best aspirational and at worst completely faking it.
- The reaction to DAOs seems to be either "this is the future of work" or "this is stupid." Reflecting on what I love and don't love about working at top tech companies...
- New @Zillow data shows 1 in 3 would buy a home sight-unseen with virtual tools. A structural change in home-shopping behavior is afoot. The virtual tools home shoppers need to use today for safety will become tomorrow's expectations for convenience.