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After amassing 200m users and 43m creators4, XHS has monetised through various advertising formats. These include screen advertising upon opening the app, influencer-led marketing coordinated through a platform called PGY and consultative-style advertising services that leverage XHS’ user insights, dubbed IDEA strategy. According to XHS, there are... See more

Creators make more money by selling directly to their fans and by collecting royalties every time their NFTs are resold. This is an entirely new revenue stream that is only possible because of true digital ownership that can encode royalty logic in the media itself.

Jesse: If you play that idea out to its logical extreme, it puts both you and me out of a job. I think investment clubs end up dictating what people pay attention to on the internet because it’s no longer who has the most retweets or who has the most attention. Rather it's, who has the most skin in the game? Who invested in what? That'll expand... See more

If you subscribe to the idea that Masa’s still got it and is among the world’s most visionary operators and investors, there’s a case to be made that SoftBank is just hitting an early rough patch on the road to a massive opportunity. People underestimate how big an impact technology is yet to make; Masa does not. If he needs to be the villain for a... See more

Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very... See more

21 Signs You Might be a Digital Dope Addict

Check all that apply:

1. On average, you engage in passive scrolling at least once a day


2. You check your phone (or some other screen) within minutes of waking up


3. You check your phone (or some other screen) within minutes of going to sleep


4. You check your phone for no reason


5. You have a hard time sitting still (or

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