Warehouse woes only compounded an already dire situation: Joymode has struggled to build its customer base post-Series A, which Fernandez believes has scared off potential investors: "It's like you can feel their allergic reaction," he says, adding that WeWork's bungled August 2019 IPO hasn't helped him make his case. But WeWork may be a symptom ra... See more
But even with all their flaws, the existence of dozens of massive, collectively-maintained, curated and organized libraries of communal culture are still something like a miracle of the web. Tellingly, these kinds of sites rarely get launched these days, and the ones that have survived all follow a fairly common set of patterns. They often start as... See more
The best thing for a company or project’s narrative is to have a lot of people with credibility to the target audience tell stories with roughly similar positive themes again and again over a long period of time, with new examples of the same positive themes added in. The more authentic and the less coordinated it all seems, the better.