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Season 5: Manoush Zomorodi (Host of NPR's TED Radio Hour; Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business) returns as a solo-entrepreneur and profiles six unusual dynamos reinventing business, their industries, and even capitalism in the name of humanity. It will change the way you see your work and your self.
Stable Genius Productions • ZigZagPod
This was acceptable in 2008, when the number of mobile apps was small. But now the App Store is not one small outpost for developers and creators to make a living. It is an unavoidable, ubiquitous forum for commerce. This new reality requires Apple to behave less like a product company and more like a platform: a neutral party that allows a wide di... See more
Yash Bagal • Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy
Shopify has 5 VPs of Product. Four of us are ex-founders. The other one was an NCAA heptathlete.
A lot of what makes Shopify special is that it is full of founders and people who take an obscene amount of ownership over every problem.
Kaz Nejatianx.comRecess CEO Benjamin Witte: I reject the idea that being on Amazon hurts your brand
modernretail.coThe RGMs were thought of as the CEOs of their markets, holding responsibility for revenues and losses, the efforts of thousands of Ops folks, and were always closest to the trickiest problems in the business.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
You can scale up revenue, enjoyment, raving fans, focus, autonomy, and experiences while resisting the urge to blindly scale up employee payroll, expenses, and stress levels. This approach builds both a profit buffer for your company to weather markets and a personal buffer to help you thrive even in times of hardship.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
youtube.comLütke: “In retail, we've always had a lot of gatekeeping. There were limited chances, which meant that the kinds of products that were created had to be very sanitized and have very broad appeal for just logistical reasons. And so I think what's been so amazing is now a lot more people can participate and much, much more specific products are being... See more