🎧 Episode 2 — The Rise of Creator Led Media Companies

In this episode of Venture Desktop, we are looking at a topic that is quite foundational to how we should think about economic growth and progress as we look to the future. And that is the rise of Creator Led Media Companies — which, to give a definition is a business (large or small), that is is first and foremost built around the creative skillset of an individual or a small team.  

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The links we go through in the episode can be found here. 

• Creative Compounding


• HBR — The Bannister Effect


• John Cochrane — Free Solo and Economic Growth


• Ben Cohen — The NBA's Youtube Generation


• Jayson Tatum on learning from NBA players on Youtube


• Overtime


• Overtime's Dan Porter on Recode Media


• Anthony Edwards Dunk


• David Perrell and Samo Burja on The North Star Podcast


• Balaji Srinivasan — Adobe for Influencers


• Li Jin — The Passion Economy and the Future of Work


• The Professionalizing Creator Class


• Come for the tool, stay for the network

Retweetables / Relistenables / Rereadables

• Rereadables — The Future of Workers / Mercedes Bent + My Hope for the Future of Work Jomayra Herrera


• Relistenables — Emily Weiss, Glossier


• Retweetables — Dave Ambrose on Podcasting

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