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The audacity of launching now
To start to work toward a sustainable media ecosystem, you must start with the media businesses themselves. These businesses face a daunting task of sorting out competing interests of audiences, advertisers and platforms. Time and again, we have seen platforms make decisions in their own interests that have cascading effects on publishers.
Brian Morrissey • Ecosystems
Here, bike and scooter sharing is a cautionary tale. Both bike and scooter sharing and ultrafast delivery are capital-intensive industries with no customer loyalty, low switching costs, and limited network effects. The unit economics are unproven, and while optically high, growth could be short-lived.
Sacra • Ultrafast Delivery: The $28B Market to Build the On-Demand Bodega
Like everything else, this concept is being tested brutally by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rent the Runway, the fashion rental service, has had to rethink its plans as fewer Americans commute to offices or attend fancy events. Joymode, which rented out thousands of products, from electronics to margarita machines, closed. Uber rides — which were suppose... See more