today, the creator economy model mostly consists of a one-way financial relationship: audiences either support their favorite creators directly or creators monetize their followings using sponsorship from brands.
I said earlier that the biggest risk to Substack is archives, but that’s only true in the existential sense. With regards to future growth, the biggest risk is that the mainstream population continues to read mainstream journals, and Substack never crosses the chasm.
And so the internet’s latest shining promise of creative autonomy denatures into another burnout-inducing hamster-wheel game of keep up, as Gimlet executive Reyhan Harmanci noted recently.
As part of a creator’s relationship with the broader Koji platform, Koji provides and manages liquidity and exchange of USD/kUSD for registered creators. By bridging from fiat to cryptocurrency at transaction time, we allow audience members to seamlessly transact in the ways in which they are familiar, while providing the creator community with a s... See more
The reason I'm so obsessed with just studying people that got to the top of their profession is because one third of your life is going to be spent working. Half of your conscious life, half of the time you're not asleep, is going to be spent working. For a certain personality type, to not Excel at that, not to be really good at that means that lif... See more