Musings on crypto, creators, culture, and things in between
4mo
“I think a lot of Westerners want to think of developing-world uses as a boring sideshow, and highlight Westerners trading monkey gifs as the only pa...
A Framework for Consumer Crypto As we wrote last year, we believe the most sustainable consumer businesses will continue to be built around passion. W...
8mo
This post was originally published on Substack. Subscribe for updates. “While tools like Nansen and TokenTerminal increasingly make it easier to ver...
9mo
One Year Down Dear TCG Crypto investors, collaborators, and friends, With over a year of the fund underway, we are excited to share with you our first...
10mo
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara HISTORY OF DIGITAL SOCIALIZING To date, every iteration of the Inter...
1y
The year is 3045. Creative freedom as we know it has been stripped away. The metaverse is closed, ruled by the repressive Xani Republic, and artists l...
At TCG Crypto, we believe the best businesses are built around passion, where new forms of digital ownership accelerate new behaviors and consumer exp...
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. We all know it, we talk about it, but we have to live it. The most difficult step is just to go fo...
“Everything you can imagine is real.” –Pablo Picasso Museums, arguably, are one of the most exclusive asset classes ever created. Curated collectio...
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” — Juliet, about Romeo (Shakespeare) According to the hypothes...
2y
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginn...
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the digital-turned-physical friends I had made throughout 202...
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and cr...
In the metaverse, when we look in the mirror, who do we see? Last week, John Palmer wrote about new Internet logic. He argued that the next wave of c...
The Business Model of Good Taste This piece was originally published on Medium on August 23, 2020. We’re experiencing a content overload. There are a...
La Grenouillere by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Last year, Ryan Dawidjan wrote a piece about modern friends, or the relationships that originate and develop...