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Ampled is structured as a platform cooperative, whereby all artists, fans and company workers co-own the platform on a "one-person, one-share, one-vote basis." The company's relationship with investors is also structured as "revenue-based financing" — a model in which investors inject cash into a business in exchange for a small percentage of... See more

No effective central monitoring or controlled comparisons were possible without standard, fixed units of measurement.

ecause if you think about, if you unpack what does Web3 mean? And if it really boils down to the financialization of everything, there's three distinct buckets of it in my mind. There's a speculative sphere because you can now tokenize so many different things, the opportunity for markets and best execution and price discovery and all these things... See more

Core to the tenets of web3 are the notion of self-sovereignty through cryptography, the ability to organize into global communities that resonate with our tailored values and interests, and the redistribution of network value back to users through incentivized participation.

Some signs your product might be too complicated: you’ve launched a bunch of features and haven’t killed any of them. You’re running out of literal surface area to put new features. Users aren’t clear about what to do with the product.

“The most important outcome of the pandemic wasn’t that it taught you how to use Zoom, but rather that it forced everybody else to use Zoom,” Autor told me. "We all leapfrogged over the coordination problem at the exact same time.”