Playing on Hard Mode – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Airbnb and DoorDash both created new markets where ones did not previously exist; they are startups played on “hard” mode.

Playing on Hard Mode – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content Playing on Hard Mode Tuesday, November 17, 2020 One way to understand how the Internet is different is to not only examine what business models work, but also the history of how those business models came to be. Start with text and images, long the province of newspapers: the first attempts at website monetization placed ads alongside article text; after all, that is how advertising was done. Incredibly enough, it was a mere eight years ago that Facebook IPO’d with this as its business model: content that was import

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