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Essays from the founder on strategy, trust, and building an ecosystem in the only order that works.

[ latest ]2026-05-26 · 5 min

Why we built the wedge before the platform

Platforms are a reward for being useful, not a strategy for becoming useful. Y0 exists because we refused to skip that step.

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[04-14]Retention is the only vote that counts
[03-10]The trust ledger: how we think about permissions
[02-03]Eight lanes, one map: sequencing an ecosystem
[12-16]What we learned studying eight giants
[11-04]CAC is a strategy tax: notes on distribution
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