ABOVE THE FOLD #24

Morning y'all! We just dropped a killer ep w/ the founder of Aether, a startup that takes CO2 from the air and turns it into diamonds. Ryan's story goes from running product @David Yurman -> getting paid off to not jump ship to a competitor -> starting his first co after a bad motorcycle accident -> parlaying his exit into Aether. Worth a listen :) 

The links:

1. AMA with a top onlyfans creator

2. The future of filmmaking 

3. What a rocket launch looks like from space

4. The economics of vending machines

5. What selling your company to Steve Jobs feels like (amazing story)

New ideas: the greatest source of new ideas for me lately has been tiktok. Seeing a behavior or some makeshift hobby and thinking about ways to productize it. Take this kid's "spotify wall" - instead of printing out 85 sheets of paper, could easily be turned into a shopify site -> let someone "customize their poster" w/ favorite artists or albums and have it printed on demand. Or this guy picking out his outfit - it would be cool if all product categories were reviewed in a gamified, NBA 2K way. Could go on for days - so so much inspiration here!