Means of Creation

The Rise of Fashion NFTs

Dani Loftus on disrupting the trillion dollar global fashion industry

Community Hangout with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

Get your questions answered by your Means of Creation hosts

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

Inside the Longform Content Game at Twitter

“There’s a massive appetite for content that goes beyond 280“ - Head of Longform Content Nick Sallon

The Creator MBA

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

Ethereum Explained

Preethi Kasireddy on what Ethereum is and how it works

News Roundup #7: Glenn Greenwald Goes Independent Following Biden Story Dispute

Read to the end for influencer political marketing

Why Influencers Need a Watchdog

A mind-expanding conversation with Kat Tenbarge

The Creator Economy Just Went Mainstream. Why?

Journalist Alex Kantrowitz on Big Tech’s shifting attitude towards creators

Enabling Anyone To Create an Online School, with Ankur Nagpal

And what the next phase looks like for Teachable

Exploring Online Community Dynamics, with Nadia Eghbal

And what content creators can learn from open-source developers

Inside Spotify’s Vision for Audio Creators

“We want people to live off their art” - Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström

Building a Driver-Owned Alternative to Uber and Lyft

Jason Prado, Head of Product at the Drivers Cooperative, is bridging the gap between labor and capital

Playing Games to Earn a Living in the Metaverse

“As a player, you actually earn 2-3x more than an entry-level job” - Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games

Allen Lau, Co-founder & CEO of Wattpad, on creative communities and new business models for creativity

Full transcript of our conversation with Allen

Jarrod Dicker Is Thinking A Lot About ‘Web 2.5’

The TCG partner on the most interesting investment opportunities in crypto right now

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How to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy

Or, why friendly ambitious nerds will change the world

Building Profitable Online Businesses, with Courtland Allen

And how software relates to the Passion Economy

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,

Should Creators Own Their Means of Creation?

Erik Forman on how to counteract the precarious realities of today’s platform economy

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

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

Striking Out as an Independent Tech Journalist, with Casey Newton

And the future of social media platforms

Improve Your Content Diet, with Polina Marinova

She distills the secrets of the world's most successful people & companies

Making Websites Super Easy To Build, with Joseph Cohen

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