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Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.

Richard Patey • Why Creators Should Choose Protocols Over Subscriptions

Silicon Valley enterprise startups often focus on the needs of other mid-stage tech companies as customers, rather than the large enterprises that make up much of the business world by revenue.

Elad Gil • Products I Wish Existed, 2020 Edition

Companies with poor unit economics found themselves propelled by aggressive venture dollars (which themselves were propelled by a low-interest-rate environment). Those companies then turned those dollars into aggressive customer acquisition. Until recently, the market rewarded growth at all costs.

Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition

Paul Stamatiou said that “responses here so far confirm my theory that… high-quality software products are only made by small teams”.

Anthony Hobday • Blog

Camp and Kalanick were both Super Founders. Before Uber, Camp founded StumbleUpon, the first web-discovery platform. It enabled users to find new web content with a single click and quickly attracted angel investors, including Brad O’Neill, Tim Ferriss, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, and Mitch Kapor, along with venture capital firms like First Round Capi

Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

What I learned in year four of Platformer

Casey Newton platformer.news

When Facebook introduced the news’ feed, it spurned feedback from ex-partners whose relationship-ending-statuses were now being blasted to all their friends. Facebook prioritized its engagement—and its revenue—over the impact on its users.

It’s hard to blame Facebook. It would have died out if it hadn’t introduced a newsfeed—the feed was the most en

The broader lesson is that in innovation, less is more. Having a deeper and more specific knowledge about fewer products is superior to knowing only general information about a multitude of new offerings.

Georg Tacke • Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.117]

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