Reading
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Eugene Wei on social networks as businesses that sell status. I use it to test whether a growth loop is actually a status market.
- Social networks
Why I saved this
If the product cannot say who rises, who watches, and who pays, the graph is decoration. I pull this essay when a consumer idea is really a leaderboard with extra steps.
Wei’s post is long and worth it. This page is only the question I steal from it.