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- I've spent the last few months thinking about monetization of B2B marketplaces. Here are a few quick thoughts based on @rigup's trajectory, amongst others 👇
going slow and
incredible to see the growth curve of Acquired, one of the most popular podcasts. if it would've been a startup, it would've been shuttered after two years because of slow growth. good things take time.- I think obsessiveness is necessary for deep thinking. You have to stay with a vague sense for long enough that more and more of your mind is recruited for figuring it out. And then it's sort of like fishing: a waiting game. You need patience and persistence to catch the big one
- Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse. here's my 3 part theory..
🚨Big announcement today: Bolt raises $393M. Wow. A couple years ago, I didn’t know if we were going to make it. Now we have $500M+ on the balance sheet. I wanted to share a bit more about where we've been, but more importantly where we're going 👇👇👇- Contrarian idea: after 30 years, I suspect Yahoo's category model might be a better fit for some areas of information on the web than Google's. In fact, several.
- The state of online learning: 1) YouTube will eat the low-end of the market. 2) People will pay 5-15x more for live courses. 3) The three biggest competitive advantages are the personality of a creator, the warmth of the community, and the quality of the student experience.
On this day in 1964: Jack Ma born *taught himself English at age 12 *rejected from 30 jobs including KFC *made $15/month teaching English *rejected by Harvard 10 times *first 2 business ventures failed *started Alibaba with $60,000 from 18 friends *net worth: $41.4 billion
