While newspaper executives would argue that, in 2019, it more difficult to persuade consumers to pay for journalism, a private 2PM poll identified that the average earner between $90,000 and $250,000 pays for 17.2 monthly subscriptions across media, entertainment, and utility. Of that 17.2 monthly recurring fees, an average of 5.7 were devoted to w... See more
Then, how do you connect the right consumer to the right expert? How do you make sure you have enough of these experts available online? How do you ensure that customers would have someone to talk to when they wanted? I would break down the problem, and then get intimidated about it.
Enabling customers to collaborate with you - in creating, distributing, marketing, and supporting products - is what creates a premium in today's market.
Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet.
To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions.
We're not stopping here. Show more
Direct-to-consumer products that make explicit claims about wellness and lifestyle but imply health benefits for serious medical conditions are particularly concerning. These products easily bypass the current regulatory radar. For example, a fitness product might imply health benefits for patients with cardiovascular disease despite never being te... See more
In order to get to this position, Apple has had to gain the trust of the healthcare industry and the government. The first step to this new healthcare reality is integrating medical records into Apple Health. To be clear, getting to this point has not been a walk in the park. Behind the scenes, Apple has done a ton of blocking and tackling with key... See more
A bundle essentially lets a group of newsletter-writers dynamically price-discriminate: most readers are subscribing because one or two components of the bundle are great and the rest are nice-to-have, so Everything’s $20/month sticker price is implicitly charging something like $15 for one newsletter in the bundle, $1 for another, $0 for another—b... See more