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The disruptive potential of the creator-led online fitness market is in relation to gyms, boutique fitness classes, and personal trainers that provide community and accountability, but are expensive and inconvenient for many consumers. By leveraging digital platforms like Fitplan or Playbook, or even just enabling payments or donations on... See more

Past failures have tried to tackle demand aggregation rather than demand shaping.

The next Google will look nothing like Google. While there is a big opportunity for companies like DuckDuckGo or Neeva that primarily compete on a single vector (e.g. privacy) but otherwise replicate the Google experience, I am excited about those creating a new, more engaging, personal, and contextualized search experience. This may look like a... See more

3. An email client is no monkey work

But while in many ways more limited, the early web also provided a far more level playing field to its early settlers. As there were no “cities” yet per se, the most valuable virtual real estate hadn’t yet accreted to a small cabal of gatekeepers.

So as organizations grow in scale, the result, as many of us feel intuitively, is the concomitant loss of creativity, flexibility, curiousity, and humanity. Mega scale organizations are not, generally speaking, very nice places to work at, shop at, or do business with, are they? That is why they are always fighting their very own inertia. Like any... See more