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Psychedelics-as-a-service. Unlike cannabis, proponents are quick to warn that psychedelics aren’t a commodity, they’re a service. Marijuana is a commodity that can be cultivated and distributed. Psychedelics, on the other hand, rely on delivery — or the service component.

The other comparison, though, is Skype. Just as for video, VOIP had been around for a long time, but Skype solved a lot of pieces of friction, in both engineering and user experience, and by doing so made VOIP a consumer product.

A big component of the surprising durability of Google's growth is that the use cases for search keep broadening. Search used to be more about finding reference information, but over time turned into a way to take specific actions (search queries including the phrase "near me" are up 100x in relative terms over the last decade—the feedback loop bet... See more

The market cap of social money on Roll will soon exceed $250M, and has been growing exponentially since July. We’re in the nascent stage of creators as corporations.

Twitter, at its core, is offering Trust as a Service (TaaS) to its user base. Twitter is trying to sell its audience on the idea that we can entrust it to host important conversations on its platform without engaging in unethical moderation tactics to censor information deemed ‘inappropriate.’ In addition, Twitter is attempting to prove to what ext

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Unfortunately, we never cracked how to get huge by going direct. Our customers loved us, we just couldn’t get enough of them. We were growing. Our high fixed costs meant that we had to grow at a pace that we never were able to reach though.

In 1964, on a folk tour around England, Bob Dylan considered quitting. He said, “I play these concerts, and I ask myself: ‘Would you come see me tonight?’ and I have to truthfully say: ‘No, I wouldn’t come...'" Burnt out and ready to quit playing music, Dylan asked himself,… Show more