“Selling to very profitable customers benefits a startup. Account executives can charge a highly profitable company more than one without much money.” | learn more
“Why is it that every company that makes money on transactions seems to be crunching the numbers and concluding that it’s time to launch ThatCompany+, ThatCompany Prime, or ThatCompany One, often at $9.99 per month?” | learn more
Ben Thompson of Stratechery is one of the most notable writers on the business of technology. He’s the creator of aggregation theory, which has been useful in understanding the centralizing forces of the internet. Now with AI, given its recent […]
“A story of so-called “ghost” buses and trains, meaning trains and buses that are published on CTA’s boards and trackers as being on their way, but really isn’t.“ | learn more
“Despite making up just 14% of the population, immigrants are responsible for 30% of U.S. patents and 38% of U.S. Nobel Prizes in science. A team of Stanford economists recently estimated that nearly three quarters of all U.S. innovation since […]
“Janus, named after the two-faced Roman God, has lived at the Geneva Natural History Museum since his birth.” | learn more
This happens in a newly released movie as a character defends himself and his family. Is it effective? “Having thoroughly established that no, you can’t punch a lion in the face (even if it looks badass), I had to ask […]
“Entrepreneurs Daniil and David Liberman hope to reduce wealth inequality by creating a people-investing platform. Their idea raises uncomfortable questions.” | learn more
The fuel for almost all the cutting-edge nuclear reactors is high-assay, low-enriched uranium fuel (HALEU—pronounced hey-lou). The problem is the Russian government owns the only company in the world that sells it. Yet there remains optimism in the industry thanks […]
An incredibly detailed write-up from Austin Vernon. “Inertia and new technology make it hard and undesirable to root out.” | learn more