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Successful data businesses are all built around a unique or proprietary data asset. There are a few ways to build such an asset:- Brute force License and transformCore business outputPayment in kindInbound network effectsGive to get Data exhaust

In 2020, nearly 2/3rds of queries on Google ended on Google itself i.e., without clicking on an external link (organic or ad). This highlights how over time Google is increasingly showing the results for common queries inline (in its knowledge graph) rather than directing traffic to websites.

Being open and flexible to opportunity is sometimes more important than knowing what you’re trying to do.

A friend at Stripe recently suggested – half-jokingly – that we should hire a librarian to organize all our internal data and documentation.

What does a good, descriptive header look like? Like this:

• For a website design tool — "Visually design and develop sites from scratch. No coding."


• For a grocery delivery service — "Groceries delivered in 1 hour. Say goodbye to traffic, parking, and long lines."


• For a home rental service — "Rent people's homes. So you can experience a city like a true

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With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper. But people, of course, wouldn’t read a book about most subjects covered in the paper, because most of... See more

Most people don’t want their information mediated by bloated, monopolistic, surveilling tech companies, but they also don’t want to go all the way back to a time before them. What we really want is something in between. The evolution of Google Search is unsettling because it seems to suggest that, on the internet we’ve built, there’s very little ro... See more