"Age of Miracles"

The podcast explores how Shopify and e-commerce infrastructure tools have made it easier to start a DTC business, but harder to stand out. It discusses the challenges faced by DTC companies, the rise of DTC startups in e-commerce, the issue of copycats, and strategies for startup success in dominated markets.

Ali Montag joins Not Boring to tell us about a Linear Commerce empire you wouldn't have any idea about, unless you have kids.  You can read the full post here and subscribe to Ali's newsletter here.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Google should buy Slack to take on Microsoft with a modern solution in the productivity and collaboration space.  You can read the full post here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

The Marcy Lab School's Reuben Ogbanna takes over Not Boring to explain how we can explain the tech talent pipeline beyond traditional schools and backgrounds. You can read the full post here, and get in touch with me on twitter @packym to get intro'd to Reuben. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

In this episode, we discuss what a SPAC is and why Juul is kinda the perfect company to go public via SPAC.  You can check out the full post here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Not Boring Investment Memos are deep dives on early stage companies that are currently fundraising, and that the Not Boring Syndicate is investing in.  In this episode, we talk about Composer, which is aiming to close the wealth gap by giving investors access to more sophisticated tools for self-directed investing, with a clean, easy UI. Think of it like the best parts of Robinhood and Wealthfront, with a lot more muscle under the hood.  You can read the full memo here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Entropy Theory explains industry evolution as a story of ever-increasing chaos and suggests that the most successful businesses are those that use the latest technology to wrangle that chaos, until entropic forces unleash the next set of opportunities. In this episode, we explain Entropy Theory through examples in real estate, tech, and employment. Why did TikTok succeed where Quibi failed? Why did Spotify take off while Napster got sued into oblivion? Entropy Theory is an attempt to explain.  You can check out the full post here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Gil Kazimirov joins us to share the surprising  history of the ringtone - the polyphonic pocket music that launched the mobile revolution. You can read the full post here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message

Twitter is the most undermonetized product in the world, because it doesn’t know what it is. For someone so into meditation, @jack’s lack of self-awareness is a surprising error with major implications. Twitter’s ads business struggles to support the entire company. Twitter doesn’t know who its customers are, or what its Job To Be Done is for them. Twitter captures almost none of the value that it creates. Creators are left without features they would happily pay for. Twitter Profiles are the most underdeveloped real estate on the internet. We dive into:  What’s wrong with Twitter and why? Who is Twitter’s customer and what is its Job to Be Done (JTBD)? What would Twitter look like if I ruled the tweets? You can read the full post here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ageofmiracles/message