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Twitter launches paid subscription called Twitter Blue

Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane

Twitter is also working on tiered subscription pricing model, with one tier having more paid features than the other For example, users on higher-priced tiers could enjoy premium experiences, such as clutter-free news reading experience (Twitter is acquiring @tryscroll recently)

Mike Park @mep

🥁... NEWS! Twitter is acquiring @tryscroll. Scroll gives readers what they want: clutter-free reading across the web, and publishers what they need: a way to make more money than they would through ads on their site. A short 🧵... https://t.co/3NCfsEwNTv

Vitalik donates >1b

Joshua Gans @joshgans

An author without a University degree just donated $1b to India has also published about funding public goods in Management Science.

Shopify’s policy

Before going public earlier this year, Coinbase announced being a ‘mission focused company’, and it brought pushback. Basecamp just recently followed suit, and over a third of the company quit. Tobias Lütke, Founder and chief commander at Shopify took a stance on the topic.

Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh

"Shopify, like any other for-profit, is not a family. The idea is preposterous. You are born into a family....Shopify is also not the government. We cannot solve every societal problem here." Founder telling it like it is businessinsider.com/shopify-ceo-em…

Vegetable

Preparing for 2030 #251 - Exponential View by Azeem Azhar

What do the next ten years hold? Zaeem Azhar writes one of my favorite substacks analyzing the future. In episode #251, Azeem lists 10 predictions about what the next 10 years will hold.

1) Climate change will be the dominant narrative.

2) Our geopolitics will continue to fragment and this will result in more conflict.

3) In what we have generally thought of as the West, we’ll rethink the shape and purpose of our economies.

4) We’ll see the rise of new digital commons, economic institutions that are neither public- nor private- sector.

5) World trade will face a troika of headwinds.

6) Cities will become relatively more important.

7) We’ll eat far less meat.

8 ) The big tech companies, particularly Facebook, Google and Amazon, will work aggressively to increase their footprint over the coming years.

9) AI will be everywhere

10) During the 2020s there will be a generational shift

Read issue #251 and his book exponential view comes in September.

Azeem Azhar @azeem

🤩 EXCITING NEWS: I’ve written a book! It arrives in September and is available to pre-order here: azm.io/exponentialbook 1/9

-LUCAS

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