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I’m not sure anyone ever seriously expected Facebook, Google, or eBay to be a buyer of these types of businesses, but they haven’t been. Amazon and Walmart haven’t been active, either. Target has been focused on launching new private-label brands. Nike hasn’t done a DTC roll-up. Shopify, which now powers almost 2 million e-commerce merchants,... See more

Here we have an account of sublime experience that oscillates between feeling reduced to nothing in comparison with the great spatial and temporal expanse of nature, and then feeling elevated by two thoughts ‘that only philosophy makes clear’. First is the thought that as cognising, thinking subjects we in a sense create (support, construct) our

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“Half the distinguishing qualities of the eminent are actually disadvantages.” – Paul Graham

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Rather than interpreting fintech's job as bringing Old World institutions online, embedded finance modularizes financial functions. Rather than directly involving a bank, payments can be made across the web through embedded tools like Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, and Square.

I don’t buy the argument that being brandless was a mistake. Brandless is the brand and it was very clever of them. If there is something they got right, it was the branding. What undid them is the cost of goods sold. It’s beyond me as to why they didn’t go premium with pricing and focused on lesser categories. But they had a thesis to follow and... See more

Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, and commerce, identity and ownership are all built in from the get go. (How fun is that!) So we wonder, just like how the cloud enabled new types of digital experiences, or how smartphones enabled new types of location-based experiences, could crypto be a platform that enables new types of social... See more