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The Creator Economy is booming. Empowered with publishing platforms and recurring revenue streams, thousands of people are striking out on their own as paid creators. This isn’t just about well-known journalists leaving established brands anymore. Today, anyone can become a media company. As The New York Times says in an article titled “Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack”: “This new ability of individuals to make a living directly from their audiences isn’t just transforming journalism.

Optimizely & The Dunning-Kruger Effect Working at Google can make you formally incompetent when it comes to entrepreneurship. That was one of the most interesting takeaways from Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen’s recent SaaS Office Hours session with Redpoint’s estimable Tomasz Tunguz. An affable, self-deprecating guy, Pete Koomen talked a lot about the idea of “unknown unknowns,” or things you don’t know you don’t know about.

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