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- The problem ‘akshually’ is that contemporary programmatic advertising is too efficient, and the ads sales people at The New York Times selling outrageously priced ads on a fixed, rate-card basis were selling media not really worth the cost (when measured at the level of precision the internet makes possible). Decades worth of such advertising mispr... See more
from Advertising and Web3 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- most people don't know what they want unless they see it in context
from Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Braintrust does have a revenue model in the form of taking a % - they take 10% from employers. The innovation here is replace the middleman with software and use a token to incentivize community behavior like inviting talent, inviting clients. Braintrust doesn't spend $ on marketing - the core innovation is taking cost of acquisition to zero by giv... See more
from Braintrust’s Founders on How to Run a Decentralised Marketplace by Li Jin
Sunsama is always worth the same amount. We don't do special deals for Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
We think our product provides the same value the whole year round and that customers should not penalized (or rewarded) because of when they found about Sunsama and decided to pay.
from Pricing Manifesto by Sunsama
- We also tend to be more excited by enterprise focused solutions. Big companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google are concentrated on solving large consumer problems and have all the data in the world to do that really well, so it’s harder for startups to compete.
from What we look for in AI companies (and why they are different) by Matilde Giglio
- The fact that anyone can build a portfolio means we’ll rely less on artificial gate-keepers of quality (e.g academia & media)
from The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis by Erik Torenberg
- Crypto and blockchain-based applications aim to steer the web towards its original vision: an open network, based on public-domain protocols, controlled by no one. It promises to enable "decentralized" alternatives to the tech and government giants we all know and love.
from Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization by Dror Poleg
- When someone buys a TV, the number of consumers goes up by one, but the number of producers stays the same.
from Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky
- When people pay for the last 1%, what they’re really buying is the organization, implementation, and community surrounding all your ideas.
from Not Found by Nicolas Cole