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Clubs: The clubs model focuses on recurring revenue memberships to access discounts on products that align with a media company’s audience.

What this means is that web users end up interacting and spending most of their time on the visible, predatory commercial web, while the very long tail of smaller, amateur websites remains hidden in the noise.

Scheduled Zoom calls, utilitarian Slack threads, and endless email chains don’t capture the thrill of surprise or the joy of conversation that giddily revs up as people riff off each other’s ideas. But smart app developers are also realizing that spontaneity doesn’t mean constantly interrupting people’s life or workflow. They give people the power ... See more

ost existing recommender systems fail to offer us recsplanations (i.e., human-understandable explanations for why they’ve recommended specific things). This makes it difficult for us to estimate how much satisfaction we might experience from a given option. Research in the field of recommender systems shows that recsplanations increase user satisfa... See more

Self-Markups. In order to show gains on its investments, SoftBank invested in follow-on rounds at higher valuations. Since no one else was willing to pay what they were, they were artificially setting prices higher than the private, and eventually public, markets were willing to bear.

“Good pricing is not about the price.  It’s about getting in each customer’s shoes and knowing exactly how they derive value from your product.” - Ian Clark