Yash Mimani aka ahafisher

- Declining birth rates

- Inversion of population pyramid

- E.g., Japan

- Revenue retention moats built through content (topics, celebrity exclusives), social network effects and B2B partnerships

- Lack of ways to give away money effectively

“Silk Road doesn’t really sell drugs. It sells insurance and financial products,” says Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor Nicolas Christin. “It doesn’t really matter whether you’re selling T-shirts or cocaine. The business model is to commoditize security.”⁠

- AI gone wrong

- Religious extremism

- Headspace took an edutainment first approach to meditation with well-being as the overall larger vitamin while Calm honed in on the sleep pain point to create a GTM wedge

- Consumer software equivalent of 20th century mint-tasting toothpaste Pavlovian hack