What you build your business on doesn’t limit how big it can grow.
(a 🧵 on this mental model)
1/ Can an app built on top of Facebook become bigger than Facebook itself?
It’s easy to believe that you will get limited by how big is the businesses on which your business is built. But that’s not true.
2/ An app built on top of Facebook can become bigger than Facebook because the customers and desires that Facebook serves are very different than customers and desires that the business that’s built on Facebook is trying to serve.
Hinting at the perceived sluggish rate of innovation in recent decades, Peter Thiel famously said that “we were promised 🚀 flying cars and all we got is 140 characters”.
But is it true?
In my next podcast, I pick @ArtirKel's brain on whether progress is slowing down.
Check out the full podcast here:
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@ArtirKel is an independent researcher who likes to get into details of things.
On his blog nintil.com, among a wide range of topics, he writes about how science is done, advances in human longevity research, economics and innovation.
In the episode of my 🎙️ podcast, I and @Philip_Goff explore the absolutely crazy but increasingly popular view that everything in our universe is conscious (panpsychism).
If you have an hour to spare this weekend, listen to the podcast below.