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The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.

Brand partnerships account for ~60% of esports revenue, and possibilities for customized in-game content and collaborations abound

Payroll companies are realizing the power and value of their data and are angling to become part of the economic value chain. Gusto, for example, is launching more partnerships to become users’ financial hub, and ADP is investigating how it might allow consumer-permissioned data to be used for new use cases.

The Dallas Morning News is one such publisher, with more than 800,000 users subscribed to their web push notifications. Now 4% of overall views and 11% of returning views are thanks to web push notifications. This new strategy has helped more than double their return visitors year-over-year and is also responsible for spurring hundreds of new digit... See more

As discussed in my previous posts, there are myriad challenges to tackle before getting to mass adoption. Basic infrastructure, which has not proven itself ready for scale, sits at the core of these challenges. This is not too concerning in my opinion. The research, effort, brainpower, and capital that have been invested into this topic alone will ... See more

My other issue with being too protocol focused is that if we can’t capture much value on the application layer, it will simply lead to shitty apps. As anyone who has tried to figure out how to navigate the world of web3 knows, we need to strive for vastly better and easier to use consumer applications than we have right now.

What if we measured true success not by the amount of money you have but by the amount of human energy you unlock, the amount of potential you enable? If that were our metric, our world would be a different place.