Means of Creation

Sep 29, 2020

Passion Economy News: Casey Newton goes Indie, SignalFire’s Creator Economy Market Map, Newsletter Curation, and More

Plus, using Twitch for journalism, Bella Poarch, and the implications of Penske’s control over Hollywood publications

Jan 6, 2021

Why Vice is Building an OnlyFans Community

News Roundup #14: Twitter acquires Breaker, Clubhouse announces a Creator Pilot Program, Substack’s SEO issues and more

Jan 12, 2021

What Trump’s Deplatforming Means for Creators

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

Oct 7, 2020

How To Use ‘Good Jobs’ To Create A Great Company, with Dan Teran

And the future of worker classification

Mar 18, 2021

Is Substack A Platform Or A Publisher?

Also: Clubhouse’s accelerator program, Twitter’s new monetization tools for Spaces, a platform that lets fans control creators’ lives, and more

May 10, 2021

Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy

What happens when a product company tries to run a platform?

Mar 11, 2021

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

Mar 6, 2021

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

Feb 25, 2021

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

Apr 27, 2021

Facebook’s Foray into Audio

Why are they doing it? And will it work?

Oct 15, 2020

Striking Out as an Independent Tech Journalist, with Casey Newton

And the future of social media platforms

Jun 16, 2021

The Creator MBA

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

Oct 29, 2020

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,

Aug 20, 2020

Sahil Lavingia wants creators to get interest on their interests

Welcome to Means of Creation!Every Friday, Li and Nathan interview a guest in the passion economy — founders, creators and operators who are

Feb 18, 2021

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

Full transcript of our conversation with Allen

Feb 4, 2021

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

Dec 3, 2020

All Things Technology, Film, and Media, with Eugene Wei

And understanding how psychology affects consumer behavior

Nov 10, 2020

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

Read to the end for live streaming insights for music creators

Mar 1, 2022

Ethereum Explained

Preethi Kasireddy on what Ethereum is and how it works

Jun 7, 2021

The Creator Economy Just Went Mainstream. Why?

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

Sep 30, 2020

Enabling Anyone To Create an Online School, with Ankur Nagpal

And what the next phase looks like for Teachable

Jan 7, 2021

Community Hangout with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

Get your questions answered by your Means of Creation hosts

Feb 15, 2022

Is Crypto Actually Destroying the Planet?

“Quantify the impact, reduce it as much as possible, and offset the rest” says Joseph Pallant - founder of the Blockchain for Climate Foundation

Nov 3, 2020

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

Read to the end for influencer political marketing