We should ask: how does a community endorse another up-and-coming community on the internet? With collaborative tokengating: when two brands get together, and flip exclusivity into reciprocal inclusivity.
Controlling valuable pillars of internet utility -- the flow of information, social connections, music and video delivery -- has created tremendous wealth for a few while very little for stakeholders not on the company’s cap table.
Together, Allbirds and Adidas aim to reduce each pair of shoes’ carbon footprint to less than three kilograms. Eventually, the two brands hope that the partnership can reduce that number to zero. Equipped with 11 patents and counting, Allbirds is actually well-positioned at its impasse. As a technical purveyor of sustainable materials, construction... See more
1/ Time for another doc. This one is historical.
YouTube’s hypergrowth was a rollercoaster, but we stayed grounded with a clear set of rituals. While it didn’t happen overnight, we gradually settled into the planning and meeting pattern you see in this diagram. A thread: 👇
In Africa, where small businesses are the backbone of the economy, most businesses still use paper ledger books to record transactions. That means poor insights, lack of access to credit, and too often, failure.