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oken Distribution - How do you plan to reward contributors? How much of the supply will be reserved for the DAO treasury? Do you want to do a retroactive airdrop (reward contributor for their past contributions) or everyone's winning Token from a starting point? The challenge with Token Distribution is to create efficient distribution mechanisms... See more

“What we’re really teaching people to do—and writing is the mechanism through which we’re doing this —is how to become citizens of the internet” – David Perell

“The bar for freemium models at the time was Skype, which converted about 7% of their users to pay at least something—maybe a dollar. We hit that in a few months, but it just continued from there. Past 10%, 15%, 20%—and we realized that we had stumbled on what might just be the most effective freemium model the world had ever seen.”—Gustav... See more

Jarrod Dicker of the Washington Post had a great insight about the rise of “expensable media” (think Stratechery, The Information, 2PM) and its positive impact on the creator ecosystem. This same effect could fuel a massive expansion in the consumer subscription software market that is compounded by a shift away from the office and its bundled... See more

Today, these problems are solved by machine learning algorithms run by centralized companies for the benefit of advertisers. My thesis is that what we require is, instead, a content market where we all collaborate to curate content and be rewarded for our good taste and our creativity.

This should be Travis Kalanick’s moment.The Uber co-founder not only sold out of Uber ahead of the pandemic that has cratered that company’s ride-hailing business, but switched his money and energy to a real estate startup that leases space to restaurants for meal preparation. The firm, ...

Films (especially animation) are super expensive to make. By providing infrastructure and a platform, Shibuya gives digital creators the opportunity to turn passive viewers into active participants and go direct to fans for funding.Imagine being able to prove the fact that you “watched Squid Game before everybody else”. With Producer Passes you can... See more

The conversion rate for paid subscribers is about 10% so if you have 10,000 readers, about 1,000 will pay for your work