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Sajith Pai

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Early stage investor.

Unbundling Humans, or, Unbundling Human Creation.

“There are two ways to make money in business: You can unbundle, or you can bundle.” – Jim Barksdale, cofounder of Netscape As frameworks for identifying opportunities in startupland go, unbundling / (re)bundling is amongst the most seminal ones out there. Here is an example of how it works. Visualize...

Jun 16, 2021•10

Sajith Pai

Early stage investor.

Sajith Pai — LessWrong

Sajith Pai

Message

Early stage investor.

Unbundling Humans, or, Unbundling Human Creation.

Jun 16, 2021•10

Sajith Pai

Early stage investor.

Unbundling Humans, or, Unbundling Human Creation.

Sajith Pai

“There are two ways to make money in business: You can unbundle, or you can bundle.” – Jim Barksdale, cofounder of Netscape

As frameworks for identifying opportunities in startupland go, unbundling / (re)bundling is amongst the most seminal ones out there.

Here is an example of how it works.

Visualize a product that helps you read (for a fee) any magazine / newspaper story – effectively you have unbundled or decoupled the story from the wrapper. Now imagine, you had an option every saturday to get a printed / ebook of all of the stories you selected for leisurely reading. Voila, you have created a new magazine via (re)bundling. But it is different because you have control... (read 1565 more words →)