Second, the subscription must tie to a recurring behavior. The causality must flow from the recurring behavior to the subscription, not the other way around.

David believes that users follow the content and don’t have any loyalty to content delivery platforms. Thus, David and his team are focusing on getting creators on board and believe that they will be able to acquire end-users through their creators. This strategy has been working pretty well so far - for the Beta site, they have gotten over 1300 si... See more

“Your aesthetics get better as you make mistakes.”

Overall this is a positive view of the future of education. People are already able to learn anything they want on their own with very little or no cost. The possibilities of educating yourself on the internet will only increase. To take advantage of this shift in education, the only thing you need is intellectual curiosity—to see learning as somet... See more

Avg job size is $67,000

So if we want to understand why network effects often fail to lead to marketplace monopolies, we should start by considering the Thumbtacks against the Taskrabbits, the Tinders against the Bumbles, and the Upworks against the Fiverrs, all in relentless competition against mirror-image services. These services all have network effects in the traditi... See more

We are not against algorithms. We’ll enthusiastically use algorithms, or AI, or any other technology we can get our hands on, as long as we can use them to serve the human ends that we care about.