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The last time Amazon was worth $34 billion was in September 2007! Amazon's net revenues that year were $14 billion, with $3.4 billion of gross profit. While most of Amazon's volume at the time was first-party e-commerce, its marketplace business constituted nearly 30% of unit (not dollar) sales. Based on recent filings with more business unit granu... See more

The lack of quality data on investors has led to a sales-first-oriented venture environment where investors are overpromising and under-delivering.

There's another consequence of people's desire to achieve goals quickly and without risk: the elimination of surprise. Funnels and tubes emphasize efficacy and predictability, and these take precedence over other values like creativity, boldness, vulnerability, embodiment, etc.

“For any small business owner, that’s more than just frustrating,” she said. “Facebook and Instagram are the ideal places to initiate meaningful discussion about sexual health and happiness as well as to introduce our products. This makes it very difficult to grow our audience and connect with the women who most need our products and positive body ... See more

That’s what happened in the physical world. But in the digital world, there’s still no equivalent of Google Maps to understand all the different online communities and spaces that many of us interact with. You can try to Google them, but Google isn’t very helpful. We are still in this sort of uncharted, “natives only,” IYKYK stage of cartography in... See more