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Google has a better sense of what we prefer than we do. Google certainly has a better sense of what we prefer than our partners do.

This liberates that person from their past, allowing them to explore new perspectives.

letting creators own their audiences

Duolingo made $162M in 2020, growing 129% y/y, and made its revenue from three sources:

There is a lot of value in services that pull everything together in one place, but over time that value starts to recede, the lock-ins keeping people there weaken and the appeal of having separate, specialised products grows.

In essence, “interoperable” means multiple products or services can make use of the same information.