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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.

Today’s platforms have prioritized their ability to behaviourally target and gamify the experience to keep users hooked, over enhancing peer-to-peer connections. The consequence is that today I wake up many a day and ask myself why am I bothering to use this?

The promise of a single, connected society, one that enables its citizens to reach their f

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Does the DAO need a mechanism that is decentralized, or is some centralization compatible with your incentives? There are excellent tools when you need incentives to be decentralized, and excellent tools when you can accept a more centralized approach. The answer for a well established DAO is likely to be different from a new one, as are the corres... See more

Here is the cold hard reality for media companies: if you don’t have access to customers — whether because of the Internet generally, or the pandemic specifically — you don’t have pricing power. Actually, that doesn’t go far enough: if you don’t have access to customers’ wallets, you don’t have pricing power.