In some places, this has worked fairly well; Uniswap is worth $11bn, for example. But does it extend to the rest of the economy? Will we reach a point where we can do business mostly or entirely with companies that we're simultaneously investing in, so the next Zuckerberg won't be able to create nearly a trillion dollars in market value from our ca... See more
If they become nations, that means the in-game currency (like SLP in Axie) would be able to be used outside of the game to pay for rent, groceries, and other real world expenses, without the need for a currency exchange.While the latter option may sound far-fetched, we’re already seeing our own scholars utilize SLP in their local regions for real w... See more
Coursera, Udacity and edX sprang up nearly a decade ago as high-profile university experiments known as MOOCs, for massive open online courses. They were portrayed as tech-fueled insurgents destined to disrupt the antiquated ways of traditional higher education. But few people completed courses, grappling with the same challenges now facing student... See more
1) Commerce: Broadly defined in this context as any model in which a content creator profits from driving transactional behavior rather than merely stoking an intent to buy.
This is attention to detail. Care in design. Follow through in customer service. This is an embrace of elegance and wabisabi and the opposite of laziness. This is bringing care (which is rare and precious) to work even if most people would look for a shortcut instead.
The Creator Economy gets a lot of hype - but the Expertise Economy may be even bigger.
Not everyone can make content or has an audience. But everyone is an "expert" on something!
What if you could monetize this? 👇
Similarly, the effortlessness of home delivery urges us to forget that, once upon a time, we were a part of the supply chain, lugging our goods home in plastic bags or loading up our cars. We were our own last-mile solution. When we quit that role, it was as if the supply chain became invisible to us.
If you strolled past an IRL cereal aisle in the last decade, you may have noticed a dichotomy, either sugary cereals which most millennials grew up with or the boring but healthy cereal we saw our parents succumb to, cereals were overdue for disruption.