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Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Zappin ran his enterprise from his gut, freewheeling and unscientific, the polar opposite of Google.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
For TikTok to succeed over the long term, it has to retain D’Amelio and its other top creators even as their success continuously brings them new opportunities. (Facebook is already coming for them.) For Snap to succeed, it only has to regularly convince average people to play the lottery in between messaging their friends. This bears close watchin... See more
Casey Newton • Snapchat's million-dollar idea
It was March 26, 2012. Brian Armstrong posted a self-described “hail mary” on the tech discussion forum Hacker News. YCombinator was interested in his startup, which Armstrong wrote “brings an emerging tech to the masses…and has a good shot at changing the world.” But he had a big problem - he didn’t want to go at it alone, and kept striking out on... See more
Olivia Moore • How Coinbase gave away BTC to get its first users
Stock-rich eBay was tempting, but Winamp had buzz. Plus, the company’s offices were in a hip neighborhood of San Francisco, thus avoiding a grinding commute to eBay’s bland precincts forty miles down the freeway in San Jose.
Margaret O'Mara • The Code
Are Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon too powerful? Should they be broken up?
Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation
And it turned out their crypto accounting was so sloppy that they couldn’t even agree if Stone had made money.