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His lessons on the early days of Yammer provide a go-to-market playbook for early-stage B2B founders:

Gamified Education: Don't try to get kids off Fortnite or Roblox. Try to add educational components on top of games kids already play.

After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy. Some feel that these platforms have become cesspools of trolling, bigotry, and hatred...... See more

Many (if not most) successful Substacks are built on the back of pithy tweets. Substack offers minimal to no demand aggregation so creators with large Twitter followings funnel their followers to their email newsletter. Similarly, TikTok stars also point their viewers to their Youtube page because Youtube offers more robust monetization options.

In short, technology made it much easier to clean a house to 1890s standards. But by mid-century, Americans didn’t want that old house. They wanted a modern home—with delicious meals and dustless windowsills and glistening floors—and this delicious and dustless glisten required a 40-to-50-hour workweek, even with the assistance of modern tools.

if you’ve got your identity tied to an Ethereum address, and you’ve got a Beeple in there, that’s no different than someone walking into your house and seeing a Picasso, in a lot of ways.