Check out my latest Innovation Armory piece on @overtime and how it’s combining a digital 1st media distribution strategy with a high school basketball league to build a sports powerhouse. Thanks @TurnerNovak & Farzeen Ghorashy (CSO/CFO) for contributing samnatbony.substack.com/p/tr…

Traditional SaaS companies will be faced with a difficult decision in the coming years. Add new AI native modules that cannibalize their core business and negatively impact retention or risk obsolescence from entrants. Ripe opportunity for a new type of specialty PE firm

Governments struggling with rapid population declines from generational aging should launch their own civic dating platforms as part of social infrastructure investment

Urban planners for towns should take more design principles from social networks to facilitate greater community in physical networks.

Before the invention of the ballpoint pen, fountain pens used to cost $200+ PER PEN May be one of the most influential innovations to unlock educational access.

Twitter’s bandwidth last night

The most killer founder teams have both a creative generalist and a deep domain expert. Broad experience generates a unique insight and industry knowledge applies the “physics” of a sector to bring an idea down to earth.

AI media will eat away at celebrity IP in more sinister ways over time. What about creating one digital influencer that transforms 100s of recognizable celebrity traits into a mega-celebrity? A lot more legally ambiguous than the OpenAI / SJ scandal theguardian.com/technology/a…

🔥Take: the leading universities & school districts in 10 yrs will have embraced AI with open arms. Efficient co-pilot IS the modern writing stack, not cheating. businessinsider.com/chatgpt-…

Say Hello to your (AI)maginary Friend. Check out my latest piece diving deep into consumer companions featuring a snapshot of my convo with the CEO of Replika samnatbony.substack.com/p/sa…

Declining fertility = Corporate sponsored IVF and surrogacy

Humanization of Pets = Pet insurance and pet discount plans

What’s scarier than AI taking your job? AI algorithms becoming your boss. That’s been the reality for gig economy workers for years.

The American Guides from The Great Depression were an early form of collaborative, decentralized media production theatlantic.com/culture/arch…

Snapchat is glowing up. My latest piece breaks down Snap's new feature updates in detail. Snap is creating a distributed virtual world that melds content & commerce to drive socialized shopping experiences that also capture the benefits of e-commerce samnatbony.substack.com/p/sn…