Interestingly for everything-is-on-a-public-blockchain it turns out to be very difficult to get trustworthy numbers for e.g. stablecoin payments volume, in a way it is not difficult to get trustworthy numbers for other sorts of payment volume. Per Haseeb, Binance *might* know.
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Asset Managers Correspondent Banking: Market Structure Over Innovation
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One way to understand them is "What if we *all* just did correspondent banking through, oh, two-ish asset managers. But we sprinkle some database on it to convince people that the innovation is the database and not the market structure / regulatory dodge." Not *100%* accurate.
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Sonar Models Outperform Competitors at 50-90% Lower Cost
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Even with superior performance, Sonar models remain 50-90% cheaper than leading competitors.
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Gaming Market Expansion: India’s Emerging Opportunity for Creators
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America's gaming creators are very well paid because lots of games need to be marketed there because there's demand. We have this crazy opportunity to make this market in India too now. More wins = more funding = more games.
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Massive AI Market Expansion Through Unique Intellectual Property
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true. Massive market expansion, and nobody really competes because everything will be unique intellectual property.
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Google Search’s Magic Money Printer: Wasteful Spending and Institutional Challenges
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This isn’t entirely a one-note story. Search was so good that it awarded Google a magic money printer, and not all of the money printed was spent wisely, and the institution suffered many of the games you’d expect the owner of a magic money printer to suffer.
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Google Search’s Capitalism: Twenty Years of Service and Ad Delivery Critique
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There are many reasons to kvetch about that stupid chestnut re: ad delivery, but the biggest one is that Google delivered Google Search to the world, for twenty years, and that act was one of capitalism’s greatest single services to humanity.
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Continuous Great Works Production Model for Talent Retention
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One of the upsides to reconfiguring the world such that one needs to continuously bid for the time and attention of smart people, as opposed to identifying them early and then locking them down for life, is you need to produce and sell Great Works continuously or you can’t afford
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SaaS Value Proposition: Understanding As-a-Service Business Models
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The bundle of goods companies are buying expressed by the words “as a Service” is a complicated one and is *not a small part of the SaaS value proposition.*
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SaaS Infrastructure Costs Impact Million Dollar Economics
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3% of the minimum viable page rotation and 100% of the minimum viable pager rotation both cost $1 million a year though, which is one reason why I am not worried for SaaS companies.