Annotated An Open Letter to Marc Andreessen and Rap Genius by dwhly (Hypothesis)

The lessons of Twitter and Facebook, other Internet-scale basic service layers that most of us use, are instructive here. After the honeymoon period is over, and disruptive returns need to be generated to pay off limited partners or satisfy public shareholders, the tensions that these monetization efforts create ultimately seem to separate the motivations of management from those of users and the broader ecosystem. How will Rap Genius–and Marc Andreessen–navigate these questions? ❧

This is probably the question of the past two decades which many companies are only beginning to realize.