Online Platforms
Why Platform Fees Keep Climbing
Marketplaces built their growth on low take rates. Now that sellers have nowhere else to go, that math is being rewritten.
Digital Economy
The Gig Economy's Quiet Reorganization
After a decade of chasing scale, gig platforms are optimizing for margin instead — and the shift is changing what the work actually looks like.
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Financial Services
Buy Now, Pay Later's Second Act
The checkout-page lenders survived their first reckoning with regulators. Their next test is credit risk they can no longer paper over.
Crypto Markets
Stablecoins Are Becoming Financial Plumbing, Not Speculation
The most consequential use of dollar-pegged tokens isn't trading. It's quietly replacing the rails that move money in the first place.
Internet Business
The Solo Operator's Million-Dollar Toolkit
A single person running a seven-figure online business used to be a novelty. The tooling that makes it ordinary is worth examining.
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