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Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we ... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Brian Sirgutz
@brian
Now: Ampathy / Starling Lab @ Stanford School of Engineering
Fmr: SVP of Huffington Post
Peretti’s solution to that problem, it turns out, sounds a whole lot like a combined BuzzFeed/HuffPost — publications that are widely distributed, supported by advertising, and free:
Vox • BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"
“A subscription business model leads towards being a paper for a particular group and a particular audience and not for the broadest public,” Peretti said. He’s alluding, in part, to the theory that the Times’s subscriber base wants to read a certain kind of news and opinion — middle/left of center, critical of Donald Trump, etc. — and that strayin... See more
Vox • BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"
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Arlan Hamilton • It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
Terri Burns
@tcburning
Brian Cadieux
@bczeno
