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Fadeke: These creator side hustles often transform into full-time occupations. For example, Alexis Gay worked at Patreon while creating humorous videos about the tech industry. Now she’s a full-time comedy creator and podcast personality. Mario Gabriele started his newsletter, The Generalist while working at a VC firm. After seeing significant... See more

To arrive somewhere remarkable we must be willing to hold many paths open without knowing where they might lead.

One example: the NCAA just changed its likeness rules, meaning that athletes can now earn income as creators. Big-name college stars—many with hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans—can earn income through YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Patreon, and other platforms.

The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic

To return to a theme around here - these videos are the product of incentives, and though they’re extreme manifestations of those incentives, they’re hardly unique in being shaped by them. One commonplace that’s found among Reels that have some purpose and some plausible entertainment value is the “wait for it” thing, artificially delaying the... See more

Zynn seems to have grown so quickly for a couple of reasons. There’s the paying users to watch videos, obviously (I was able to get $0.12 by watching videos for what felt like a few minutes). But the app also has a referral scheme that pays users for getting others to sign up and use the service themselves, which likely went a long way toward... See more