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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. But more importantly, it can help your audience believe you.

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How Technology Affects Communication

Neil Patel

For better or worse, technology affects communication because it is a part of our everyday lives. It impacts the way we work, entertain ourselves, and stay in touch. You might see the average elementary-aged child with their head buried in a smartphone and tempted to take a gloomy outlook on what technology has done to us.

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The App Store Model Comes to Web3

Tom Tunguz

In Apple’s app store, users pay Apple to access apps and developers receive a revenue share. When users pay gas fees (transaction fees) to use EVMOS, 50% accrue to developers building applications. Gas sharing rewards developers for writing popular applications on EVMOS. A stadium without entertainment sells no tickets.

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What Will this Crisis Accelerate in Your Ecosystem?

Tom Tunguz

But the US has the potential to increase grocery delivery 5x if we look to other developed nations as a proxy for long-term adoption. Entertainment is changing. I’m sure there are many impacts outside the world of technology on medicine, drug discovery, energy production, and many other facets of how we work and live.

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Making things people want

Intercom, Inc.

A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development. Maybe your customers want to be entertained, or spend more time with their friends, or understand what projects teammates are working on, or maybe they want to project growth for their business.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift. A bundle of technologies are going to make a whole bunch of new things possible that lots of people are going to be building things on top of. Entertainment is this $2T a year industry.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). They succeeded, where Blockbuster failed, because they understood that a huge entertainment platform shift and change in consumer behavior was beginning.