But not necessarily big companies. Just solo individuals or small groups doing content, like Notch doing Minecraft. Because media scales like code.
A solo media founder like Rogan or Mr Beast can make as much money as a strong tech founder, with significantly less managerial stress.
Tech created this ecosystem but there’s a historical cultural bias in tech towards media as unprofitable. That changed a long time ago.
But not necessarily big companies. Just solo individuals or small groups doing content, like Notch doing Minecraft. Because media scales like code.
Substack and all the creator tools are just the start of this ecosystem. https://t.co/8gvgC4z5zE
Useful concept: the media stack for content creators
— balajis.com (@balajis) January 20, 2020
- Spotify, iTunes for podcasts
- Descript for podcast editing
- Figma, Canva for graphics
- YouTube for video
- Twitter, FB for distribution
- Substack for newsletters
- Makerpad for nocode
- Ghost, Medium for blog
What else?
V1 is link-in-bio, Substack, and sponcon.
V2 likely involves more angels & tokenization a la @tryrollhq. What else?
There isn’t a TechCrunch & CrunchBase for media founders, chronicling the valuations of influencers.
But that’d be quite valuable. If you are interested in doing this, please DM with demo.
Why? Because decentralization isn’t just a technological phenomenon, it’s a cultural one.
The independent is more independent.
It’s how we remediate the demographic, linguistic, ideological, and intellectual non-representativeness of legacy media. https://t.co/Ev8EacIsZs
In the last 3 months, Nas Daily had 150M views in the Middle East alone.
— Nas Daily (@nasdaily) December 22, 2020
Nothing makes me happier than reaching Arabs with MY AGENDA. Decades of hatred and division can not continue.
Excited for the Status Quo to end.
And for the establishment to die.
They distrust tech platforms as much as we distrust governments.
And people in crypto have of course distrusted tech platforms for a while.
But this is a crucial demographic to target, to cross the chasm. Crypto tools for content creators.
Crypto can give influencers the tools to reach their audiences and monetize them without interference from legacy tech platforms.
The sovereign individual, the sovereign influencer.