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Brandless’ proposition of good products at a great price works if they a sustainable cost. Being an eCommerce company, the CAC is a variable that grows with sales. At $3 per product and a CAC that grows along with the volume of sales, the model looks very different and inferior to ALDI’s. For the whole of 2019, as Brandless’ traffic was... See more

If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.

Indeed, the genius of the YC credential that it's tied to their winners, not their median outcomes. It's less that you'll be impressed with the average company — it's more so that "1 in X startups will be the next Airbnb."

-There hasn’t been enough iteration and experimentation in this category — This needs to be treated as a core focus for community leaders, and feedback loops need to be tightened. Governance mining has a lot of promise, but will require time and effort to be perfected.

One comes in the form of NewNew, a start-up in Los Angeles, that describes its product as creating a “human stock market.” On the app, fans pay to vote in polls to control some of a creator’s day-to-day decisions.

Digital Organizations are compositions of humans without geographic constraints. Largely hosted in Discord servers (but not exclusively!), DOs are collections of like-minded people with like-minded goals, that work together to make progress towards those goals.

Music is primarily controlled by three large labels; podcasts are controlled by individual podcasters