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China has successfully integrated multimedia content with shopping platforms, a feat that the US is only starting to crack with initiatives like Instagram’s Shops and Shopify’s competitor Shop.

Koji is built entirely on the open web. “We don’t believe that we will ever need to create a native app,” he told me earlier this year. Koji gives creators dozens of ways to collect money from their audiences through subscriptions and one-off purchases, and its mobile-friendly design is perfect for the in-app web browsers used by Facebook,... See more

Level 2 Aggregators: Supply Transaction Costs: Level 2 Aggregators do not own their supply; however, they do incur transaction costs in bringing suppliers onto their platform. That limits the growth rate of Level 2 aggregators absent the incursion of significant supplier acquisition costs.

There’s no point doing this to be small. We should go big, if only because there are a lot of people in the world who deserve Slack. Going big also means that it will have to be really, really good. But that’s convenient, since there’s also no point doing it if it is not really, really good. Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is... See more

As a general rule of human civilization, we’ve lived where we work. More than 90 percent of Americans drive to work, and their average commute is about 27 minutes. This tether between home and office is the basis of urban economics. But remote work weakens it; in many cases, it severs the link entirely, replacing spatial proximity with cloud-based... See more

One could argue that fat margins early is one way suppliers are compensated for the risk they’re taking as pioneers in cryptoland.

This does not mean that Slack doesn’t help some or even most employees. But it holds back the most productive among us and prevents them from coming up with ideas that would make all their colleagues redundant.

“NFTs offer new ways for engaging customers,” explains Jaime Schmidt, the cofounder of Color Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in consumer brands and “Web3,” the term that refers to the blockchain-based decentralization of the internet. “For example, NFTs could unlock access to participation in focus groups, [or] private events available... See more