Tech start-ups in London raised a record $25.5B in 2021 🗓
20 London tech companies reached a valuation of more than $1bn last year 📈
Almost 40% of the investment coming into London was from the US 🇺🇸
For years Spotify prioritised shuffle. The users have now spoken. I was always curious whether shuffle was somehow a commercially driven decision at @Spotify ?
Your product’s pixels are sometimes just a part of your customers’ overall experience for the job to be done.
When making key decisions, most product leaders seek to optimize for the pixels.
The most effective product leaders optimize for the end-to-end experience of customers.
GeoCities
• When: 1999
• Who bought: Yahoo
• How much: $4 billion
GeoCities let you build your own website in the 90s.
It failed but Geocities-izer survives as a way to make your website look retro.