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Leverage data across the ecosystem to constantly improve prediction models

On its surface, the shift to digital audio should have led to further increases in song length. After all, there was no longer any limitation to run-time. However, the reverse occurred. Technology might have relaxed its grip on music’s length, but it had strengthened its hold on business models.

I want people, when they realize they have been wrong about the world, to feel not embarrassment, but that childlike sense of wonder, inspiration, and curiosity that I remember from the circus, and that I still get every time I discover I have been wrong: “Wow, how is that even possible?

Zapier published a report on remote work which found that 74% of American knowledge workers would quit their jobs to work remotely.

Achieving escape velocity — turning intense loyalty into the type of customer-aligned scale that compounds a company’s advantages — is rare and requires simultaneous execution across three core business inputs that together create a virtuous cycle of sustainable, platform independent growth: The Reassurance Multiple, Responsive Instrumentation, Bus... See more

These tools make it possible, for the first time, to effectively get work done without physical co-location — at scale. The last truly significant fixed cost for many startups today is an office lease. Multiple scaled startups (Automattic, Zapier, Invision, Gitlab) have demonstrated the fully remote model, negating the need for an expensive office ... See more