Mark Zuckerberg: “A big part of the creative economy is that it's enabling individuals, and shifting power from some traditional institutions to individuals to exercise their own creativity. And I think that that's a positive trend in the world. It's really empowering for a lot of people, and allows a lot of new stuff to get created. I think based ... See more
"We each sit alone, staring at this black screen with a whole range of emotions. But in a strange way, we are all doing it together, and we should take solace in the fact that no one has a clue what’s going on."
Personalization has been discussed for over a decade, whereby customers can have products customized... However, there appears to be a broader trend of what Frog Designs calls “split personality branding”, where larger companies have multiple, smaller brands catering to more highly defined core demographic or psychographic groups.
Digital platforms have, in many ways, democratized access to generating income but we are far from being able to say that we have created an ecosystem that allows us to have this desired flexibility with the security we need. True independence cannot exist without a system of security.
Slack, on the other hand, doesn’t look quite as good on paper. It is not quite doubling year-over-year, it’s not profitable yet, and it’s growing more slowly than Zoom is.