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Across multiple verticals, independent workers often lack predictable income, which presents an opportunity for lending. Early products in this space include Patreon Capital (merchant cash advances for Patreon creators), Shopify Capital, as well as horizontal creator business platforms Karat and Stir.

Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment

Jane Manning of Google Lea Hickman of Adobe Alex Pressland of the BBC Martina Lauchengco of Microsoft Kate Arnold of Netflix Camille Hearst of Apple

Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

built on top of social networks. Many founder friends

Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

I have a founder confession: I regret finding cofounders before knowing what I wanted to build. When I left my job, I partnered with a friend for ideation. Our customer calls seemed productive on the surface, but something felt off. Whenever we got close to signing customers, I

Michelle Lim

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economy, legal issues were making the business model look riskier.

Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work

“details are best cared for when they can be thought about holistically from a macro point of view. large organizations, by design, don’t allow for that.” (Brandon Jacoby)

Anthony Hobday • Blog

Startup Archive x.com

This framework allows us to connect spatial and material aspects of settlements available in the archeological record to social and economic network processes and their products, including a society’s collective capacity to produce private and public goods and its associated division of labor and knowledge.

Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

The Career Capitalists