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• The pandemic made working from home commonplace and the requirement to work in an office five days a week less of a default solution.

In this article we present Peritext, an algorithm for rich-text collaboration that provides greater flexibility: it allows users to edit independent copies of a document, and it provides a mechanism for automatically merging those versions back together in a way that preserves the users’ intent as much as possible. Once the versions are merged, the... See more

-Price-to-earnings (or similar metrics) multiples the market will bear

Consider the cascade of specialized productivity apps (not suites) over the years, like Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist, Trello, Clubhouse, Basecamp, and the list goes on. Many of these are stable businesses, but they all claim a small piece of a large pie (and one could argue, were not great VC investments from a multiples perspective). The... See more

Therefore, we need to create new market mechanisms that reframe people’s thinking to the longer term and better subjects for their attention.

Winning products come from the deep understanding of the user’s needs combined with an equally deep understanding of what’s just now possible.

But before you get too worried about Walmart’s prospects, here’s a reminder that it has another channel: 5,300 U.S. stores, counting its Sam’s Club subsidiary. As the company enjoys pointing out, an estimated 90% of U.S. residents live within 10 miles of one of its stores.