“Pay-per-task” is the new business model of the internet
Insights on internet communities, building products communities love and startups. This weekly email will gets 70,000+ people's creative juices flowing. There is a shift happening in the business model of the internet and the internet will never be the same again. Once in a while, you get lucky if you notice a business model of the internet starting to shift. Last time this happened, billion dollar businesses popped up overnight like Dropbox to Salesforce. Luckily for you, you're reading this so you're in on this early. The founders who take notice will be the leaders of the next software wave. I personally saw the impacts of when business models change in software 20 years ago. I remember very vividly when I started seeing "freemium" become the defacto business model of the internet. It was the summer of 2004 and a classmate of mine told me about a magical new software called Skype that let anyone place calls to their friends and family over the internet. I went over to their website
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