Means of Creation

A talk show about the passion economy.

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Means of Creation

Enabling Anyone To Create an Online School, with Ankur Nagpal

And what the next phase looks like for Teachable

Sep 30, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

Means of Creation

News Roundup #9: Parlor Rises To The Top of App Store

Read to the end to learn how a business model changed a company culture

Nov 17, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Exploring Online Community Dynamics, with Nadia Eghbal

And what content creators can learn from open-source developers

Dec 10, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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News Roundup #8: Could the Trump bump turn into a Trump slump?

Read to the end for live streaming insights for music creators

Nov 10, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Passion Economy News #4: Triller Poaching TikTok Stars, David Dobrik Gets Funding for Dispo, Journalistic Entrepreneurialism, and More

Read to the end for an insightful OnlyFans creator AMA

Oct 13, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Building The Best Tools for Creators, with Joseph Albanese

For our guest this week on Means of Creation we welcomed Joseph Albanese, co-founder and CEO of Stir!As we’ve discussed on the show before,

Oct 29, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Making Websites Super Easy To Build, with Joseph Cohen

The founder of Universe joins us to discuss how to democratize website creation

Sep 23, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Striking Out as an Independent Tech Journalist, with Casey Newton

And the future of social media platforms

Oct 15, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Building Profitable Online Businesses, with Courtland Allen

And how software relates to the Passion Economy

Nov 18, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Ethereum Explained

Preethi Kasireddy on what Ethereum is and how it works

Mar 1, 2022 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content

Like this essay and want to support us to create more like it? Consider collecting it as an NFT!In January 1996, Bill Gates published what w

Dec 20, 2021 by Li Jin and Katie Parrott

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How Psychological Ownership Can Make Crypto Less Mercenary

Web3 is missing the magic of “mine”

1 Apr 10, 2023 by Li Jin

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DeFi Explained

Nat Eliason helps us understand Decentralized Finance from first principles

Jan 25, 2022 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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DAOs Explained

Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx on how DAOs function, and what they entail for the future of work

Mar 22, 2022 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Facebook Pushes Into Newsletters

YouTube revealed $30B in creator payouts and is incentivizing creators to use “Shorts”, an OnlyFans-like platform connecting foodies with chefs, and more

Feb 4, 2021 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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What Trump’s Deplatforming Means for Creators

News Roundup #15: Solutions for creator burnout, Substack announces new features, Cameo reveals 2020 stats, and more

Jan 12, 2021 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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Will Square’s $297M Tidal Acquisition Change How Music Creators Are Paid?

Also: Top Clubhouse creators ‘unionise’, Soundcloud’s new fan-powered monetisation model, the creator economy’s LA exodus, and more

2 Mar 11, 2021 by Li Jin

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Will Twitter’s New ‘Super Follow’ Feature Work?

Also: Facebook’s take on short-form music creation, Charli D’Amelio’s distribution power, influencer marketing on Clubhouse, and more

Mar 6, 2021 by Nathan Baschez and Li Jin

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Twitter Acquires Revue

Also in this week’s roundup: Clubhouse’s $1b valuation, a16z’s new media property, Forbes’s new deal for writers, and Instagram’s plan to keep up with TikTok.

Jan 27, 2021 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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How Crypto Projects Like Loot are Rewriting the Playbook for Building Communities

Mirror’s Patrick Rivera on the convergence of crypto and the creator economy

Sep 14, 2021 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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The Creator MBA

Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.

Jun 16, 2021 by Li Jin, Nathan Baschez, and Yash Bagal

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Can NFTs Be A New Monetisation Model For Creators?

Also: Dispo’s $200 million valuation, MrBeast sells 1 million burgers, Spotify’s latest announcements, and more

Feb 25, 2021 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

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The New Creator Playbook: Jumpstarting Communities Through Tokens

Web3 is inverting the online creation model

Sep 16, 2022 by Li Jin

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The Man Who Taught a Robot to Paint

Can a piece of technology democratize the art world?

Oct 26, 2021 by Babe Howard

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Understanding The Culture and Commerce Driving NFTs

"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka

Aug 31, 2021 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez