Ever noticed that cursed corner restaurant? The one with a revolving door of hopeful new owners, always promising a fresh concept, then quietly disappearing six months later? Same building. Same layout. Same fate. You can’t quite explain why...until you realize it’s not about the food, it’s...
(I'm republishing this oldie but goodie from a few years back, as I realized I accidentally put it back into my drafts!) Why do certain creators succeed at monetizing their fans on platforms like Patreon, Koji and Gumroad, but others fail? A grossly over-simplified conclusion is that TikTok...
"An editor, a editor, my kingdom for an editor!" Almost every creator I know is looking for an editor. Not just any editor. That one elusive hire that is a one-in-a-million find: an editor who gets their *taste*. Not just someone who trims clips, but someone who instinctively...
I’m now a few years into my journey into the creator economy. As Google's first Head of Creator Relations, then Koji's Head of Creators, I’ve learned a ton about the challenges of creators of all types and sizes. Some are similar, some very different:...
We're closer than you might think to getting the first video implementations in the exploding field of generative AI. Runway, an AI-assisted browser-based video editing suite, has been at the forefront of generative video for a while now, and they've just launched their biggest milestone yet:...
Despite technological advancements, there is one particularly fascinating bottleneck holding back the full potential of generative AI today: humans