Napkin Math

Profit and power in technology, every Tuesday and Thursday.

Feb 17, 2022

The Future of Netflix

When everyone’s a streamer, nobody is.

Feb 10, 2022

Is YC the Monopoly It Thinks It Is?

The Pricing Power Flex

Jan 31, 2022

Spotify’s Quest to Own Your Ear

A Napkin Math and Trapital Production

Jan 27, 2022

Will Tokens Replace Equity?

The Weird Future Ahead

Jan 13, 2022

3 Thoughts On Justworks

The newest SaaS company to hit the public markets

Jan 6, 2022

What the hell is going on with Lambda School?

The complicated business of selling social good

Dec 16, 2021

The primary trends I’m investing in next year

Inflation, web3, embedded fintech, investing in people, and the newsletter winter that is coming

Dec 1, 2021

Investing on Instinct

Why the best deals are done with no data at all

Nov 24, 2021

How Do You Compete with Free?

Notion: The Embattled Artist

Nov 19, 2021

iBuy, iRent, iLose My Investors Money

The Murky Future of American Housing

Nov 13, 2021

Top 12 Creator Platforms—Ranked

Who has the brawn to capture creator’s profit?

Oct 28, 2021

The Creator Power Scale: A Formula to Determine if Platforms are Ripping You Off

An examination of the Twitch Hack data

Oct 14, 2021

Who is Making Money in Space?

Exploring the SPAC Frontier

Oct 7, 2021

The End of Software, Again

The impending doom of horizontal SaaS

Sep 30, 2021

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites

A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models

Sep 23, 2021

Toast—a Vision of Software’s Future

Hints to why their shares popped 60% in their first day

Sep 9, 2021

Tech stocks’ favorite lie to investors

How the LTV/CAC ratio is manipulated to take advantage of retail investors

Sep 2, 2021

Content Moderation Double-Bind Theory

The market failures damning content to ever increasing sensationalism

Aug 20, 2021

How a Climate Tech Startup Closed 5+ Enterprise Deals Before Even Launching

Remora, The Bureaucracy Buster

Aug 15, 2021

The Rise of the Content Capitalist

In Practice Beta V2

Aug 13, 2021

Is Facebook Fixable

A Review of An Ugly Truth

Jul 28, 2021

Twilio’s Second Act

Twilio rode its API to a $66B valuation. Now it’s trying to become the Universal Switchboard for the internet.

Jul 22, 2021

Snowflake: How a Revenue Retention Behemoth was Built

TL;DRThis is the second post on a deep dive in GTM metrics with a focus today on Revenue RetentionSnowflake is a software Dracula. It latche

Jul 16, 2021

How Free to Play Video Games are Forced to Make Addicts

A Case Study on Market Structures and Harm