You use the same search engine, but you don’t ask the same questions. You use the same CRM, but you don’t pitch the same customers. You use the same streaming service, but you don’t watch the same movies.
Apple owns the affluent. For the most part, the affluent demographic strongly correlates to using Macs, iPhones, Apple Watches & AirPods. And Apple takes 30% of the topline revenues from any business that wants to build things that work on its devices.
If the current environment shows us anything, it’s how desperate manufacturing is for modernization. It’s time to accelerate digital transformation in one of our most essential industries.
Which is why we are seeing a huge increase in people camping, renting or buying RVs (the industry has seen an 1800% increase!!!), and visiting national parks. So if you own a bit of extra land — a farm, a ranch, a non-profit with land — there is a very real economic opportunity to turn that land into useable campsites and outdoor travel destination... See more
The web’s first era was about information flowing freely—think Google giving you access to the world’s knowledge. Most of us were passive consumers in this era. The second era was the social web—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. People began to create their own content, and that content became the lifeblood of the big platforms. We became active partic... See more
Over the past few years, Fundrise has overhauled the model to run more like a traditional real estate private equity fund, but funded mainly by its individual investors, who invest around $8,000 on average. But that doesn’t mean Fundrise itself is small. To date, since its founding in 2012, Fundrise has invested in $4.9 billion worth of real estate... See more
By piloting programs, like the legal-defense fund, that “re-create some of the value provided by newsrooms,” as McKenzie put it, Substack has made itself difficult to categorize: it’s a software company with the trappings of a digital-media concern.