🦄 vol. 46

happy birthday to us! 🥳

and just like that, we’re 1 year old! 🥳 what started off as a group of mates spitting weekly bars has evolved into a pretty damn cool community - we’ve built a loyal and engaged reader base, and have a growing number of guest features. tl;dr: we’re learning heaps and (hopefully) getting better with time.

ps. we’d love to get your feedback.

happy birthday to us 🥳

Since we’re celebrating our 1st birthday, we thought it’d be cool to revisit some of our favourite volumes from the past year.

• Starting right at the beginning, we loved Karl's take on BitClout in vol. 1  - a platform where every user has their own "creator coin" (stock) pegged to BTCLT (BitClout’s cryptocurrency). Go viral on Instagram for something cool - bull run. Get cancelled on Twitter - face a bearish sentiment.

• Claude's piece on neobanks in vol. 10 got us thinking too. As we learnt, neobanks are a type of direct bank that operate exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks. And no, just because your bank has an app doesn’t make it a neobank.

•  In vol. 20, Matt broke down the exciting developments outta AlphaFold. We learnt that the predictive power of AlphaFold is being utilised by a research team at the University of Colorado Boulder to generate novel antibiotics. While still in its infancy, commentators see immense promise. 

• Inspired by all of the startup funding going around, Sash took a stab at breaking down scalable business models in vol. 18. We learnt that fintech businesses generally have the qualities of consumption and subscription models - the ideal combo for VCs looking for outsized returns.

• Potter’s guest feature was a hit too. In vol. 34, we learnt that the movement toward value-based healthcare is well underway in South Africa. However, without a drastic culture shift in the way that innovation and entrepreneurship is received and utilised, we are unlikely to see effective change. 

Thank you for your continuous support! 🥳

claude, karl, matt & sash