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People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."

Everyone’s familiar with the Netflix ($NFLX) of today, the company with over 220 million subscribers. But that didn’t happen over night.  The “death” of Netflix was predicted many times, first in late 2002, not long after its IPO. Walmart was entering the DVD-by-mail business, and who could ever compete with the all-powerful Wal-Mart?... ... See more

What if we’ve also been hiring it to make us feel connected, engaged, or just less lonely?

VR is an interesting category but there are real hardware barriers to overcome. For the time being we still consider VR niche: let’s see when headset usage becomes more commonplace, and how that impacts the landscape upon which such companies are built.

YGG's model is a reminder that tools of coordination can create entirely new business models.

language models are not intelligent in the ways that even small children are intelligent, but they are already superhuman at tasks like summarization, translation (both linguistic and conceptual), and association. And when you apply those skills to artfully curated source material written by equally, but differently, gifted humans, magic can happen... See more

If platforms like Vine and TikTok aim to make us all content creators, subscription platforms like Spotify aim to make us all content curators, picking our favorite tracks and sharing them with friends and the internet at large. While curating our music choices might give us a brief flash of empowerment, like we’ve somehow escaped the clutches of c... See more