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This is Pipe’s flywheel and network effect: more bids → better prices → more companies → more bids.

When it comes to benefits, a fitness instructor has different workers’ compensation needs than a designer who sits at a desk all day. Solo truckers can’t negotiate for fuel card discounts, but a software platform that aggregates demand could do so. There are also financial products that could be unique to solo workers, such as income-smoothing prod... See more

We’re now observing that consumer social experiences are starting to look and feel like games at every level. Remote networking events in Roomkey are not a panel of Zoom screens; instead, attendees create virtual avatars and can navigate around a virtual conference room on their phones. On the education platform Koala, teachers can create virtual c... See more

Contextual advertising will become a noticeable part of the online grocery experience, too, giving brands a chance to introduce themselves and their products, and giving online grocers another revenue stream. Instacart has been building out an advertising business, and I’d be shocked if Amazon didn’t eventually introduce advertising to its grocery ... See more

I’ve talked a bunch about how I think that we should design our computing platforms around people rather than apps and I guess that’s sort of what I’m talking about. On phones today, the foundational element is an app, right? That’s the organizing principle for kind of your phone and how you navigate it. But I would hope that in the future, the org... See more

Taxation based on income is silly, imagine if the phone company sent you a bill for $50,000 because your phone call to London scored you a $125,000 deal.

all sorts of different responses from different people