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The Pomp Podcast on Apple Podcasts
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Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
joincolossus.com“If we take this one off the road map this quarter, what happens? Would it really affect the user experience?” More
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
The market for consumer productivity apps, which spurred companies like Dropbox and Evernote to multi-billion-dollar valuations, has proven to be mostly a mirage. Businesses are increasingly happy to buy software for their employees; people are often loath to buy software for themselves. And for all it did right, Mailbox never became anything more... See more
The Verge • Why Mailbox died
Substack is under attack again. The crusade is led by a site contributor, Jonathan Katz, whose style might be characterized as embittered-conventional
There’s a really interesting discrepancy between the internal and the external conversation around Facebook right now, because the external conversation is a lot of like, “Are these people good or evil? What are they doing to the world?”