I’m really bullish about what’s around the corner – and I want to unpack what I’m looking for, how I’ve drawn insights from history, and what’s around the corner. In the 70 slide deck below, I cover a couple key concepts:

  • Accelerating technology adoption. Why the telephone took 50+ years to adopt, but the mobile phone was <10 years
  • Three historical examples and their modern antecedents
    • Content marketing. The origin of the Michelin Guide and why content marketing still works
    • Viral growth. How chain letters were invented and rethinking its effectiveness in the framework of viral growth
    • Marketplaces. How to bootstrap marketplace businesses and the cold-start problem, and what the story of toothpaste can tell us about that
  • The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups
    • Video. Why video is big, and will get even bigger
    • Offline. How the offline-to-online channel has been used by scooters and rideshare, to great effect
  • My investing thesis. The intersection of growth hacking, new tech, and pre-existing consumer motivations
  • Closing. Technology changes, but people stay the same

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