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Friends with Benefits, the popular DAO with a $114 million market cap, has local channels for SF, Berlin, NYC, Asia & Australia, Miami, Canada, Lisbon, Paris, and more. Axie Infinity was started by a small team in Vietnam and is on track to do $1 billion in revenue, shake up the business model of gaming, launch the x-to-earn movement, and change em... See more
Packy McCormick • Sc3nius
Some conglomerates, such as AT&T, Unisys, and ITT, have split themselves into several firms in order to function more profitably. The nation-state will devolve like an unwieldy conglomerate, but probably not before it is forced to do so by financial crises.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The Problem When Applied to DeFi dApps Even though DeFi is based on decentralized infrastructures (Ethereum), administrators can still tweak the code. It's common for companies to tweak code to get more transaction fees from Uniswap or Dy DX. Shareholders can leverage their negotiation power to get more value from the DeFi protocol when it grows an... See more
Camron Miraftab • Page not found - Rarestone Capital
The Haier Model: Reinventing a Multinational Giant in the Network Era
Cao Yangfeng • 1 highlight
goodreads.comOur idea of progress is so bound up with the idea of putting something new in the world that it can feel counterintuitive to equate progress with destruction, removal, and remediation. But this seeming contradiction actually points to a deeper contradiction: of destruction (e.g., of ecosystems) framed as construction (e.g., of dams). Nineteenth-cen... See more
Elan Ullendorff • Thinking outside "outside the box"
The Store of Value Generation is Kicking Your Ass and You Don’t Even Know it
Mark Cubanblogmaverick.com
The most famous example is Axie Infinity. In order to play, prospective gamers have to buy or rent an Axie from an existing player. The game economy works because new players buy Axies from old players in hopes of reselling those Axies to newer players who join after them.