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Over the past few years, Fundrise has overhauled the model to run more like a traditional real estate private equity fund, but funded mainly by its individual investors, who invest around $8,000 on average. But that doesn’t mean Fundrise itself is small. To date, since its founding in 2012, Fundrise has invested in $4.9 billion worth of real... See more

We have already discussed the breadth of skills required to author an interactive article. Can we help lower the barrier to entry? While there have been great, practical strides in this direction, there is still opportunity for creating tools to design, develop, and evaluate interactive articles in the wild.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them. Groups do not need to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart. Even if most of the people within a group are not especially well-informed or rational, it can still reach a collectively wise... See more

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The best founders have figured out that owning their narrative gives them meaningful leverage. Founders and companies can increasingly communicate their narrative in a direct and compounding way to investors.

Public “likes,” reactions, or retweets of others’ are “published works” of ours, too. They’re just other atoms in our public library of content. All of this content, intertwined with our identity, is viewable by an audience. And others’ perceptions of this content is considered, ultimately influencing us. The more we publish, the more opportunities

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