The sports fan has a ton of attention and time to spend on the content that they care about. The average run time of an NBA game is three hours. If you can find a way to be a meaningful part of that person's experience on a nightly basis for the duration of a season, and then multiple seasons across sports, there's a lot of potential to monetize th... See more
But it feels strange that we basically settled with the paywall as the only viable business model for written content on the internet. A model that is at odds with how the web is structured and set up economically:
If we’re going to talk about ‘the future of strategy’ then we are going to have to talk about how relegating strategy to the supply of disposable ‘insights’ and ‘propositions’ for other people’s creative processes is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of strategy.
There’s an opening in the market to provide abstractions on compute and storage not only suited for modern application and infrastructure environments, but that also fill the needs of today’s developer.
There’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up recently called the Dead Internet Theory. The claim is basically that most of the internet is bots. There aren’t real people here anymore.
Data and analytics mattered much more online than having a great team of human merchants. There was a great story in the “Everything Store” about how the algorithms outperformed the human editors that Amazon employed in their book section. A culture of relentless A/B testing and data driven decision making was essential to online success.