Tag: Entrepreneurship

ABOUT THIS EPISODEEvan Britton is the founder of Famous Birthdays, the de facto celebrity wikipedia offering 200,000 biographies with a focus on Gen Z social media stars and creators.Evan founded Famous Birthdays in 2012 and has profitably bootstrapped operations through ad revenue. Currently, the site registers 30 million unique monthly visitors, with versions in Spanish… Continue reading Means of Creation : #24 — Evan Britton on creating a Wikipedia for a new generation and bootstrapping an ad-based business

ABOUT THIS EPISODE 23 — Community Hangout with Li, Nathan, and Adam Keesling In another special hangout episode, Li, Nathan and MOC producer Adam Keesling talk through the week’s passion economy news and take live questions from the MOC community. In this episode, we talk about: The intersection between Nathan and Li’s recent writing on… Continue reading Means of Creation : #23 — Community Hangout with Li, Nathan, and Adam Keesling

ABOUT THIS EPISODEChris is best known for inventing the now ubiquitous hashtag, but his work over the last 15 years spans social technology, product design, synthetic media, founder culture and mental fitness. Currently, Chris helps founders and creators with their Product Hunt launches. His insight into social technology stems from his experience at big tech… Continue reading Means of Creation : #22 — Chris Messina on why the passion economy needs a more stable foundation to keep expanding

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis week on Means of Creation, we talked to Nadia Eghbal! Nadia’s work has focused on the reputation-based economies that drive creator and open-source developer communities. She currently is the Head of Writer Experience at Substack and previously helped build open-source developer experiences (independently and at GitHub). Nadia also published a book earlier… Continue reading Means of Creation : #21 — Nadia Eghbal on the parallels between open-source software development and online creators