The latest example: Outdoor Voices founder Tyler Haney, who launched the athleisure brand in 2014, is stepping down from her role as CEO; the company has reportedly raised a “down round” of funding from its existing investors at a lower valuation, and was said to be losing money on around $40 million of sales last year.
Dapper has built NBA Top Shot into one of the most widely used Web3 apps by abstracting away any notion of a blockchain. Everbloom is using a similar approach for a mobile first NFT experience and we believe that this sets them up well to reach true mainstream adoption.
So I’ve given it one. I call it scout mindset: the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were. Scout mindset is what allows you to recognize when you are wrong, to seek out your blind spots, to test your assumptions and change course.
In digital conversations, giving feedback requires more conscious effort. Silence is the default. Participants only get feedback from people who join the fray. They receive no signal about how the silent onlookers perceive their dialogue. In fact, they don't receive much signal that onlookers observed the conversation at all.