Algorithmic content delivery will allow Snap to place content anywhere within its feed, allowing it to charge brands for premium placement like Facebook.
People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link dou... See more
But there’s one critical step I see missing over and over again, from tiny startups to the world’s biggest incumbents: forgetting to sell. In the scramble to build frictionless payment mechanisms, the actual pitch — the “here’s why you should subscribe/pay/join, and here’s what you’re paying for” — is an afterthought, and the responsibility is ofte... See more
Provide tooling that is difficult and resource-intensive to be built and managed in-house. This tooling is often a fixed cost and outside of a company’s core thesis.