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More easily guide your customers to new, potentially higher margin products that you’re expanding into that might be relevant for them. Most customers don’t want to deal with a million different solutions that don’t talk to each other, they want a single service that can fulfill whatever the job to be done is.

These creators are a far cry from Hollywood types. But with internet platforms, they can broadcast their knowledge and expertise. They’re also able to better monetize what they know and what they love: before YouTube, MKBHD might have worked as a techie at the Apple Store; now, he employs a dozen people and does tech reviews for 14 million subscrib... See more

Golden Mean:

Good character is not about maximizing virtues but moderating them: to be sensitive without being fragile, confident without being cocky, steadfast without being stubborn, driven without being reckless, focused without being obsessed.

But my story is as much one of perseverance and drive as it is of talent and luck. I willed it to happen. I took my life in my hands, learned from anyone I could, grabbed what opportunity I could, and molded my success step by step. Fear of failure drove me at first, but as I tackled each challenge, my anxiety was replaced by a growing sense of opt... See more

4. Creator interdependence and solidarity: Going forward, my hope is that we can build platforms and mechanisms that incentivize mutual support between creators, where one creator’s success does not come at the expense of another’s.

The number of people who are willing to start something is MUCH smaller than the number of people willing to contribute once someone else starts something.