ALee

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Fomer CEO/Founder of Esper, previously Director of Product & Senior Advisor to U.S. Small Business Administration (and White House). Before that, I worked on FarmVille, because Zynga acquired my startup JamLegend (think guitar hero online).

Prior to FarmVille and JamLegend, I created Fantasy Congress in college (featured in NYTimes, CNN, NPR, etc.), Kingmaker- an election predictions market, and then Poliquiz.

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Comment · 5 years ago
I wonder how much of this labor is a choice between online labor versus choosing not to work retail where the profit is a lot lower, meaning your take-home is equal to your costs.

Let's assume that you can make a reasonable living in a different part of town instead of commuting to a service sector job. Add on top of that, you get to control your hours and there also seems to be more and more foot traffic in that part of town. As you start moving to that part of town, you realize that it's so much closer to your work that you save money on transportation and you have free time to pursue investing or other ways to better yourself. I don't think we would ever have issues with labor moving to better parts of town, right?

The only issue is that this better part of town is the internet. I wonder if the larger long-standing effects of COVID were an experiment on the general population that they could make money outside of what they've been told.

Comment · 5 years ago
Many people do this with the Costco Food Court, just saying, there is something pretty powerful about providing food as your loss leader to consistently get traffic
Comment · 5 years ago
Technically, Olympic sports are niche sports as well - the only difference is they have a giant collaboration every four years. There's nothing to say that disc golf won't be part of the olympics or bowling (addressed in the article as well)

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