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He might not care about decentralization for its own sake, unless decentralization proved to be better for customers.

There is no search architecture that will work universally across all categories. It’s hard to imagine you wanting the same UX to search for recipes than to search for freelancers. Whereas Google’s product begins and ends with a search bar, trading off functionality for simplicity, vertical search players like Yelp, Expedia, Zillow, and Behance... See more

“One area that I think is unexplored and relevant to this conversation is digital merch. What does digital merch look like? Not your avatar wearing a digital shirt. Rather: a badge saying you found this person early. Being able to flex to your friends that you found an artist or a content creator before everyone else — and you can actually prove... See more

Gen Zs reject the sterile, constrained online identities encouraged by older social platforms in favor of more customized forms of online expression.

I used to be confused by the Figma’s team consistent framing of Figma as browser-first. What was the distinction between this and cloud-first? Over time I’ve come to see how important this distinction has been. When many creative tools companies talk about the cloud, they seem to view it as an amorphous place that they store files.

Quick Commerce startups are asset heavy and vertically integrated, and this starts with real estate. These companies operate via Dark Stores, also referred to as micro-fulfillment centers, which are small warehouses strategically placed around city centers to service their immediate neighborhoods, often with a 1 mile radius service area

8. Web3 is addressing global inequality by sharing the reward—and the risk. Put another way, if the roughly $5 trillion total market cap of Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft were split across a billion users to give them around $5,000 each, they’d be much more supportive.