Who Are the Silkers and Where They Live

This week on Tasteland we're joined by technologist and artist, Zane Kind. Zane is the co-founder and CEO of Silk, a blogging platform for creative research,moodboarding, and subculture.

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Zane Kind

• Silk
• Twitter/X
• LinkedIn
• Website
• Zane's FWB Fest talk

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Timestamps

00:00 Notebook vandalism and clone hype

08:57 Building the zoomer Facebook

17:06 The slow scale business model

19:28 Defining taste

23:38 Scaling without killing subculture

30:07 Where are the Silkers?

36:51 Celebrity is changing

47:09 Creation starts with consumption

49:02 Rapid-fire hot-potatoes

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.