Tag: business models

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• Listen to Brian Armstrong – The Future of Crypto – [Invest Like the Best, EP.186] now.

  August 16, 2020

  “The topic of ourconversation is the future of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance. We discuss the major events of the past decade and what might happen in the 2020s. Perhaps most… more ›

• Listen to Matt Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More – [Invest Like the Best, EP.185] now.

  August 16, 2020

  “Matthew Ball is the former head of strategy at Amazon Studios, an investor, and probably my favorite business essayist writing today. In fact, I can’t think of another author whose… more ›

• Nintendo, Disney, and Cultural Determinism

  August 16, 2020

  Beginning in 2013, I began a series of essays that outlined my vision for an OTT “Disney as a Service” subscription, including how it would work, its likely pricing ($6)… more ›

• What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech

  August 16, 2020

  Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, “Big Tech” platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail?… more ›

• Apple has finally met its Fortnite match

  August 15, 2020

  Epic Games executed its most ambitious Fortnite live event yesterday, leading both Apple and Google to remove one of the world’s most popular games from their app stores. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368651/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-ban-lawsuit-epic-games-payments more ›

• For Whom the Tok Tiks

  August 8, 2020

  TikTok could persist in many ways in America. None is good. Updated at 11:15 p.m. ET on August 6, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/tiktok-microsoft-china/615007/ more ›

• Black lives will not matter until the economy does

  August 6, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers in the United States and the global movement for Black lives, there has been a resounding call to re-examine the… more ›

• Madame Gandhi is running her music career just like a startup

  August 1, 2020

  Kiran Gandhi spent her first term at Harvard Business School on tour with the rapper M.I.A. Her management style is inspired by classes on collaborative leadership; the way she diversifies… more ›

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Talks Covid-19, Universal Deal, Launching in Russia and Moving Ahead

  August 1, 2020

  Ahead of Spotify’s earnings call for its 2020 second-quarter results on Wednesday morning, the company’s cofounder and CEO Daniel Ek and CFO Paul Vogel got on the phone for a… more ›