And it doesn’t actually matter how you generate the revenue component of the flywheel because it’s all based on the exact same thing: attention.

But the perfect storm of Covid + internet + infrastructure for paid communities is throwing us back to older ways of organizing society.

Employees often face four common challenges in understanding and managing equity: trading restrictions, concentrated risk, data asymmetry, and tax complexity.

Until recently, idea capital in tech was constrained, and mostly only accessible by startup founders. If you had an idea for improving public society that required money and talent to execute, and you didn’t do it as a startup, you either had to get the EA community to care about it, or – as the old joke goes – convince Peter Thiel to fund it.

A recent TiVo report found that the average TV watcher subscribes to as many as seven streaming services, and that 84% of them wanted some way to browse and search it all in one place.

Yubo is one of the best social products targeting Gen. Z. We are impressed with their understanding of the generation. Yubo brings down the barriers to make new online friends and creates the perfect sandbox to generate memorable online experiences.

The tendency of people and organizations is to lose focus. So one way to identify outstanding people is by their ability to commit and focus on something for a long period of time.

Poparazzi seems to lack any of the hallmarks of anything lasting. There is nothing new to the mode, nothing that cannot be done elsewhere, nothing truly unique or interesting. Restricting what you can do in a social network works with the length of a video, but it doesn’t really work with photos. It’s just another app that will be gone in a few mon... See more

If they become banks, that means they use some combination of financial engineering (probably DeFi) to compound money while it is contained in the game before it flows out.