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One of the most important companies in making both of the non-Amazon value-chains work is Shopify, which is a platform, not an Aggregator. Google and Facebook may collect the customers, but it is Shopify (and WooCommerce, its open-source competitor) that provides the infrastructure for merchants to actually sell things online.

Pinata: A platform that allows you to store files and guarantee availability on IPFS, a decentralized storage protocol that allows peer-to-peer file sharing.

• 55 million global downloads and stream (May, 2020)

Over the past few decades, a quiet inversion has taken place that few notice. During the industrial age, the value of the physical content of goods was enormous compared to the value of the mental content. The bending of steel and other metals, the welding or bolting of them together, the processes of replication-- the smelting, pounding, twisting,... See more

An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.

I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:

First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more

Content is the product when your audience, not advertisers, are your customers. Without a great product, you’re not going to sell much.

As an example, take One Medical (also see previous Caseload coverage). They operate partially under a capitated model: while they bill for individual services, they also receive a fixed ‘per member per month’ payment from partner health plans, as well as an annual subscription payment from individual patients. Together, these revenue streams insula... See more