Category: Work Writing

Unbundling Consumer Social = Entertainment + Connection + Community

As an ex-consumer social founder, I’m always thinking about how people meet, connect, and communicate. I think about how people create, consume, discover, and share information. The desire for connection is at an all-time high, propelled by remote work, smaller families, and rising mental health issues. GenZ and GenA grew up on the internet, and crave … Continue reading Unbundling Consumer Social = Entertainment + Connection + Community →

Distribution is web3 consumer’s #1 problem

Nearly every web3 startup founder I talk to, talks about distribution/ go-to market/ BD being their biggest challenge. We agree on problems but do consumers care enough, to actually buy the solutions? For e.g. do web3 projects/ devs really care about on-chain databases? Do consumers really care enough about protecting their data and identity? Specifically … Continue reading Distribution is web3 consumer’s #1 problem →

Learnings from a (failed) social media startup – part 2.0

So, I tried to start up. It failed. I wrote about it all in my last post here. (If you read only of these posts, read that one). I’ve often been asked the questions “Why? Why do you think it failed?” and “What did you learn?” I don’t think our failure or learnings were extraordinary or … Continue reading Learnings from a (failed) social media startup – part 2.0 →

Musings from a (failed) social media startup – part 1.0

In 2020, I co-founded Comet. I was a first-time founder - pretty sure I was building the next big social media company because I was ‘solving my own problem’ and ‘doing things that don’t scale’. I was convinced that I was ‘building a 10x better product than existing solutions’, and that I just needed to … Continue reading Musings from a (failed) social media startup – part 1.0 →