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Prop 22 is the California ballot proposition that would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from having to provide employee benefits (such as minimum wage, paid time off, and sick leave) to gig workers.

If you run a media company, what are problems that your audience might be dealing with? Those are opportunities to create new lines of business that you might not otherwise have considered.

Is there a sustained move toward delivery and away from in-restaurant dining in that new world? Yes. Not to sound callous, but that’s it. I thought that shift was going to happen over the next 10, 15 years, and no one would have noticed because it would’ve happened gradually. This change is now going to happen instantaneously.

All to say, it isn’t editors who should be worried about losing their market share. It’s retailers.

The pandemic is accelerating one of the most important trends of the Internet: the creation and normalization of virtual worlds and virtual economies.

As I’ve previously discussed, the importance of individual brands diminish on aggregator e-commerce platforms. It’s challenging to build a strong brand on Amazon because Amazon itself is the brand that consumers trust, and brands become secondary to signals like reviews and sort order. The antidote for brands is to leverage platforms that allow for... See more