In media, NFTs—or Non-Fungible Tokens—make it possible for creators to retain ownership of their content, without limiting the propagation of their files across the internet. As a result, NFTs have the potential to invert the ownership model of media—offering creators, their audiences, and developers who build for them, a viable alternative to... See more
By managing the marketplace and handling production & fulfillment, we can stimulate community growth while allowing creators to focus on their designs. Seeing as fashion drives culture, MetaFactory recognizes that facilitating access to high quality production at the best possible price allows for an explosion of independent, communally owned and... See more
High-level overview on network effects (nfx):
- Frameworks for thinking about them
- Different kinds of nfx
- Other forms of defensibility
- Addressing bottlenecks to nfx
- Misconceptions around nfx
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You probably want to keep discovering new articles from new authors all the time. You want new learning experiences by matching with new authors. But once you discover a good one, you want to read more—or maybe even everything—from them. Since there are a lot of long-term relationships, there’s a big risk of disintermediation. This is the insight... See more
In these pitches there’s nothing to suggest the person has any original experience or research or insight to offer said advice. Instead they choose to quote other people who quote other people and the insights can often be traced back in a recursive loop. Their interest is not in making the reader’s life any better, it is in building their own... See more