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The point is, when you’ve been conducting your working life at the speed of a freight train, it takes quite a long time to roll to a stop and/or point yourself in a new direction—toward a new way of being, living, and working.

In the 2010s many of our public spaces started to be molded, physically and literally, by the market advantage of luring patrons looking for highly Instagrammable shots. Businesses that once paid large sums of money to have photographs taken for advertisements that cost even more to run now had access to an army of free labor, taking pictures for f... See more

After amassing 200m users and 43m creators4, XHS has monetised through various advertising formats. These include screen advertising upon opening the app, influencer-led marketing coordinated through a platform called PGY and consultative-style advertising services that leverage XHS’ user insights, dubbed IDEA strategy. According to XHS, there are ... See more

What if by going to your favorite restaurant enough times, you got to own a table at that restaurant, automatically? What if your club membership was an NFT that you could sell to the next person when you decide to leave instead of giving up your expensive initiation fees?

$20M/year & 100% bootstrapped In 2019, they were called "IDIOTS" as they were building a product that already existed. In 2023, their business is better than most VC-backed startups. Thread 🧵

As influencers try to monetize, they are bringing all the old off-line tools to make it happen. Selling everything from makeup and swag to exclusive "how-to" guides, the playbooks all rhyme. But is slapping your name on a t-shirt in your Shopify website, selling new age self-help courses, and slinging sponsored posts all we really got?