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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/05/12/cry… 2/
pluralistic.net/2022/05/12/cry… 2/
It's only natural: much of the rhetoric and stated goals of the people behind these technologies intersect with my longstanding causes, like access to cryptography and decentralized communities (what we used to call #P2P). 3/
Because our feed has been blowing up about the injustice of Zebras Unite (uh, that's us) being erased from this article about...uh, us in @TechCrunch we are going to do a thread about what we know and how this happened. tl;dr: Follow the money. techcrunch.com/2020/12/21/sil…
First off: hello! @marazepeda here. I used to be an economic reporter for places like @planetmoney & @Marketplace. (If credentials are your kink I even graduated at the top of my class from @columbiajourn 🎉) Follow along, friends, as we attempt to unravel this rat's nest.
We get this message: "Uh, WTF there is an article about Zebras without mentioning Zebras." This happens more often than you might think. (What's the best is when men tweak your ideas and then put another name on it like camel and publish in @HarvardBiz) hbr.org/2020/10/startu…
Airbnb has just announced that it is setting up:
* an advisory board of host-users to the execs
* an endowment of company stock for host-user advised distribution
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… h/t @MannanMorshed
There are some things to say about this. Small but significant.
* an advisory board of host-users to the execs
* an endowment of company stock for host-user advised distribution
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… h/t @MannanMorshed
There are some things to say about this. Small but significant.
This is the closest thing so far from a unicorn company to the model of what I've called "user trusts": mediarxiv.org/sytdv
And ultimately a baby step toward #ExitToCommunity: noemamag.com/exit-to-commun…
And ultimately a baby step toward #ExitToCommunity: noemamag.com/exit-to-commun…
"Small" because this is still highly company-controlled, like the user trust of the Chinese EV company NIO. Airbnb as final say on what it does with user input and how it spends the user endowment.
Today we're happy to publish Fairmint's Q2 report. Our first ever report since the launch of our CSO 🎉️
blog.fairmint.co/fairmint-q2-20…
Here is the main takeaway 👇
blog.fairmint.co/fairmint-q2-20…
Here is the main takeaway 👇
In Q2, Fairmint received $176,474 from 68 investors.
This was done without marketing or press (except the initial announcement) to get a sense of what the organic number would be.
Now the time has come to start our engine 🛫
This was done without marketing or press (except the initial announcement) to get a sense of what the organic number would be.
Now the time has come to start our engine 🛫
As we started our CSO at a very low valuation, early investors already enjoy a hefty 2.52x return on their initial investment 💰
