"We think eventually, by open-sourcing knowledge you can change labor dynamics so that it levels the playing field where the best person can get a job based on what they know versus just whether or not they went to an Ivy League school," he said.
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.
So what role does Clubhouse play? I think Clubhouse is quite literally Socrates' Athenian Agora; it's Oral Culture implemented online in its full glory, for the first time. We should expect it to exhibit all of the virtues and pathologies of Oral Culture for sure -- but since we have lived mainly in a Textual culture for the last 300 years,... See more