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Jessica Bennett • Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Paywall for individual contributors: This is an area with the most innovation over the last five years as creators look to get paid. If Patreon is a digital tip jar, Substack is a Stratechery-in-a-box.
Michael Rothman • All The Ways To Make Money In Media Without Ads
- They are expensive and hard-to-use
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: B2B Marketplaces
Remarkably, it is wholly owned by Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, who are two of the most understated billionaires in tech.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
That’s the smoldering ambition of every entrepreneur: to one day create an organization that society deems worthy of a price tag. These are the
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“Unbundling of YouTube.” You can build a big company by targeting a vertical within YouTube with a product that has better features and more opportunities for creator monetization. Twitch is a great example of this! We’re also watching early stage companies like Supergreat (in beauty) and Tingles (ASMR).
Arman Tabatabai • Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups
Rising valuations gave the illusion of success. In reality, little had changed beyond investor demand, and many companies that saw their valuations rocket into the hundreds of millions or billions hadn’t shown that their basic business model could even be profitable—a rather elementary requirement for a viable business outside Silicon Valley. Inste
... See moreMaureen Farrell • The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
The creator economy is in the midst of a decisive shift—from a “bigger is better,” ad-driven revenue model to one of niche communities and direct user-to-creator payment.