OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales
OnlyFans Chief Executive Officer Keily Blair said that the company has paid out $25 billion to creators since it was founded in 2016. Bluesky: @davelee.me Bluesky: Dave Lee / @davelee.me : It's pretty...
Reddit plans to give some of its top users, including moderators and those with high karma scores, the chance to buy shares in its IPO
but not their input Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Reddit Shares Performance Data and Growth Strategy Ahead of Coming IPO Jesse Pound / CNBC : Reddit will let users buy its IPO, but warns th...
Amazon Q4: revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and employees down 4% to 1.54M; stock is down 5%+
Up 28% from 2021 Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Amazon Revenues Up 9 Percent to $149.2 Billion in Q4 Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of...
An interview with eBay CEO Jamie Iannone on eBay's strategy to focus on the second-hand luxury market, as its market value has fallen from $53B in 2021 to $21B
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Uber launches a global advertising unit, targeting $1B in annual gross ad bookings by 2024, including by displaying ads within its apps and on top of cars
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Marketplace Pulse: funding for startups that acquire and grow third-party Amazon sellers drops to $2B+ in 2022 so far, down from $12B+ in 2021
Financial Times : Tweets: @daveleeft Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : Ecommerce downtown has left the Amazon aggregators agitated. Deals have slowed; VC funding almost dried up. FOMO no more. “I would...
Shopify plans to expand its business-to-business commerce tools, as the company seeks to overturn its stock decline and compete with Amazon
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Yuga Labs, the owner of three of the top NFT brands including Bored Ape Yacht Club, raises $450M at a $4B valuation led by a16z to build an NFT media empire
In my first newsletter issue “From Corporation to Self-Actualization” … Michael Spencer / Web3 Digest : Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse Nancy Dahlberg / refr...
Analysis: Amazon has secured around $650M in tax breaks from US local and state governments so far in 2021 as incentives to expand one-day and same-day delivery
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Report: Amazon runs 164 flights per day on average to move stock in the US, up 17% over the past six months; 70% of Americans live near an Amazon Air presence
Dave Lee / Financial Times : Source: Chaddick Research & Publications .