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When angel investors wrote checks into startups, they were really buying two things: an asset with a potential financial return and a status symbol.

Ad revenue for creators is impacted by larger market conditions (e.g. despite soaring content consumption rates, ad revenue for creators has declined during Covid, as enterprises pause ad campaigns), currently down 33%.

“A couple of things plagued Vine, and it all stems from the same thing, which is a lack of unity and leadership on a vision,” said Ankur Thakkar, who was Vine’s head of editorial from 2014 until May of this year. He told me he was proud of the work the app did to highlight rising stars, including Ruth B, who earned a record deal after his team gave... See more

Purchasing Decision. Traditional SaaS is a department-head, IT, or exec purchasing decision, while API-first is typically a product and engineering purchasing decision.

Collective action is the hardest kind of group effort, requiring a group of people to commit themselves to undertaking a particular effort together, and to do so in a way that makes the decision of the group binding on the individual members.