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economy, legal issues were making the business model look riskier.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
I’m famous for having invested $25,000 in Uber when it was worth around $5 million—it’s now worth $70 billion in the private markets. When I invested, Uber was operating in one city and they only had a couple of Lincoln Town Cars signed up. It wasn’t clear if the business could scale or make money, but I knew the founder was exceptionally driven an
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Customers like Kristen Christian can pick up a megaphone at any time, and if they have a message that resonates with the network, it can gain momentum very fast.
Thomas Vander Wal • The Connected Company
smart, ambitious operators who could channel the wishes of Page and Brin.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
It seems investors are now returning to the fundamentals, where organic growth is valued over paid user acquisition and profitable customer acquisition is a focus versus the land-grab approach.
Nicole Quinn • Where top VCs are investing in D2C
We’ve all benefited from the last generation of tech operators and investors making their content accessible. The people that should be reading Divinations are those that have the potential to build great companies, but may not afford a subscription, not the VCs.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #45
The result is a dynamic in which platforms exercise near-autocratic control over the creators that frequent their platforms. YouTube can demonetize high-profile creators at will. TikTok can ban its biggest stars indefinitely. Apple determines who gets to live in its App Store, and OnlyFans can dictate the morality of their creators to appease their... See more