Emilie Kormienko

Mobile was a platform shift — a paradigm shift in how the Internet worked. It increased scale and consumer sophistication, making applications 10x easier to use. Unlike desktop computers, phones were… personal. You could take them anywhere, access them without friction, and do just about anything: make a call, take a photo, find a location, submit ... See more

How can we create the social context needed for people to truly care about others outside of their extended family?

An activation metric is a measure of how many actions a user takes to receive value out of a product. Essentially, it is what a user has to do before they get value from the product.

In web3, ownership and control is decentralized. Users and builders can own pieces of internet services by owning tokens, both non-fungible (NFTs) and fungible.Tokens give users property rights: the ability to own a piece of the internet.

I’d describe my time from 2015-2020 (when the book will be published) in three distinct phases: Phase I: 2015-2016: Discovery, exploration, initial research, hypothesis generation (funded by the Ford Foundation); Phase II: 2016-2018: Experience, experimenting, hypothesis testing (working at GitHub); Phase III: 2018-2020: Refining, summarizing, cons... See more

Saying no doesn't mean you'll never do anything interesting or innovative or spontaneous. It just means that you say yes in a focused way. Once you have knocked out the distractions, it can make sense to say yes to any opportunity that could potentially move you in the right direction. You may have to try many things to discover what works and what... See more

When onboarding is designed correctly, it increases the likelihood of successful adoption, and can drive major growth and retention for your product.

Web3, the future internet we’re moving towards, is a decentralized internet. Under Web3, the internet is shared online and governed by the collective “we,” rather than owned by centralized entities.The Web3 world is one that has open-source protocols at its foundation. Web3 is about rearchitecting internet services and products so that they benefit... See more

How should we think about what to build for the metaverse? The framework is so simple as to be almost tautological: People use digital spaces when they create opportunities not available in the “outside option” of the physical world. This means that the value of those spaces is determined by the activities people want to engage in there

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