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The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

a16z.com/2019/10/08/passion-economy

What Jamie wrote

I was blown away that someone on Substack makes $500,000/yr in subscriptions. Wow.

Users can now build audiences at scale and turn their passions into livelihoods, whether that’s playing video games or producing video content. This has huge implications for entrepreneurship and what we’ll think of as a “job” in the future.

This article is all a bit overstated, as one might expect from a venture firm, but the core concepts are interesting. I don't think it’s defining the future of jobs, but it might make it easier to create a lot of small service-based companies, solopreneurs.