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Henry Wismayer • Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor
People who wouldn’t ordinarily invest resources into their home are seeking the resources to learn, buy, and complete these improvements on their own. But for their direct-to-consumer era, there isn’t a proverbial “Toolman” Taylor or a modern DTC marketplace for the tools of the trade. The conventional model has been slow to catch up to modern reta... See more
Web Smith • ON DTC AND HOME IMPROVEMENT
Keep in mind at this point $SOS has no product, no fundamentals, it is purely a market of speculative attention catalysed by the crowd’s desire for an OpenSea token or competitor.
Cobie • Tokens in the attention economy
He tells The Verge that Spotify will incorporate a hybrid business model with three distinct parts. One will involve the typical user subscription revenue, another is advertising dollars through its podcast ad marketplace and music streaming ads, and the third is a la carte options, like helping musicians and podcasters sell merch, tour tickets, or... See more
Ashley Carman • Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money
Every VC and executive has been trained to ask about and judge businesses based on their go-to-market and distribution strategy but perhaps they should start focusing on their stay-in market and retention strategy more deeply.
tals.substack.com • Every Day a Groundhog Day
“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more
Tech is still heavily dominated by startups, and will probably continue to be for a very long time. But as tech matures as an industry, and there are more extreme wealth outcomes, there is now (as one might expect) an increased interest in solving ambitious problems with philanthropic capital.
Nadia Asparouhova • Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021
