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It turns out that today’s video conferencing technology doesn’t emulate how people interact with others in person.

TikTok raked in nearly $4 billion in revenue in 2021, mostly from advertising, and is projected to hit $12 billion this year, according to the research firm eMarketer. That would make it bigger than Twitter Inc. and Snap Inc. combined -- three years after it started accepting ads on the platform.

The future of social media is taking all the content and making it open so anyone can build on top of it, like a utility. Rather than what it is today which is a privately controlled, walled garden by just a couple of companies. The value of that is tremendous, because when the data is open, when the content is open, anyone in the world can build t... See more

Freshbooks’ 2019 study on self-employment found that the primary motivations for those pursuing self-employment were non-financial: most individuals seek a combination of freedom, fulfillment, and career control.

More Consumer Travel, Less Business Travel.

I’m particularly bullish in the forecasting/planning and billing/invoicing subsectors as more companies in both the mid market and SMB will want easier ways to transact with their customers and plan for the future. Typically these functions have been reserved for the enterprise, but I believe that will change.

After 1500 in a Clubhouse/Meerkat/Roadtrip any other attempt at synchronous only comms a few things break: 1. Notification overload 2. Conversations get boring b/c diverge too far from interest without the context of someone I recognize talking 3. Feels less special: 2/