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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

and that's it. I know sometimes we see people sort of think of platforms as being bounded to digital technologies. People equate the term platform as digital platforms. For us, that's actually limiting the scope of the topic because platforms really

...in this space is apps have made kind of democratized, but also, like, broadened access to lots and lots of people across lots of different, you know, areas, whether that's regions or social circles or, you know, income levels, etcetera, etcetera. But

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Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi)

So this is sort of the scope we're going after. If we come up with a framework to understand platforms, they should work as well for, you know, Uber or Airbnb of today as they should work for the matchmakers three thousand years ago. And so in that e

...the dating apps. They're fun. Yeah. When they work, they when they work, they really work. The problem is that they no longer work, and it's time for a platform shift. But people have always needed tools and people and ways and means to connect and m

...a dating app. And what reflects that in the product is, that the experience that used to be very shallow and, like, it it has gotten better. I'm not saying things have stayed exactly the same, but when you have to judge someone's base based on just o

...apps like Philz be able to reproduce that magical moment? I'm not sure. I don't know. And I it doesn't need to be. But what you can do online is recreate this moment that are not purely romantic in the sense that you put enough content, you put enoug