there was a game I played as a kid. It was very popular. And it wasn’t a particularly good game either, but you could play online with your friends (which was a novel concept in the 2000s). Most importantly, you didn’t need a gaming system or a powerful computer to play it. When one of my closest friends finally got me into playing, I had known about the game for years and it was easy as signing up and playing for a few minutes together to kick-off a gaming addiction destroyed my grades through the end of high school
America is the consumer capital of the world because of the breadth of consumption that is possible under individualism. There are many different parallel societies cohabiting the same economic space, each with their own unique consumption patterns. All ‘making it big’ takes is building a bridge
it was Mark Zuckerberg who mastered distribution, not Tom Anderson.
unfortunately for western culture, the artists who make art are different from the rich people who put the art in their houses. Facebook took MySpace’s model, made something much more bland (and therefore more palatable) and then wisely targeted a demographic where that blandness could trickle down to the masses. They chose not to target the same emo kids who listened to Three Day’s Grace MySpace, because there was no potential for distribution there
tech people live in a bubble of their own creation. 90% of the population does not know what JavaScript is. Many ‘startups’ are just creating more MySpaces for other tech people. Meanwhile, non-technical people have demands that tech people only talk to other tech people to solve. They need Facebook