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So, if Super Follows and YouTube Payments are examples of under-selling, how can platforms get it right?

Young people don’t want to rent their time to corporations—they watched their parents and grandparents get burned during the Great Recession and again during the COVID pandemic. Why work within “the system” with capped upside when you can use your hustle and savvy to dictate your own fortune, and have equity upside?

Forking allows communities to exert collective agency and protect themselves from being exploited. Similarly, communities support valuable contributors even if someone copycats their work

In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of spatial audio, Apple AirPods, digital walkie talkies, audio-based meditation and mindfulness services like Headspace (I’m an investor), and social audio experiences like Discord and Clubhouse.

As we see more brands interested in the audio space, we’ve found a huge need for solutions to help guide their investment in their own audio identities.

My partner Jana Messerschmidt asked her panel how business models of vertical networks will different from utility networks like Facebook*. The panelists argued that the benefit of a vertical network is greater trust, and that trust creates the possibility of direct monetization. Moving away from ads may also create more aligned business models for... See more

Like many other internet platforms, moderation has been a “really tricky problem for Roblox to get their arms around,”