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How is jumping on every fad a good thing? Focusing on their core business and not getting distracted by small month-long fads happening in their general industr

by dewey 4y ago

How is jumping on every fad a good thing? Focusing on their core business and not getting distracted by small month-long fads happening in their general industry sounds a lot more sensible.

Apocryphon 4y ago
It was a very lucrative fad, and as per that other thread, it sounds like Coinbase bought into it anyway by increasing headcount to build an NFT offering anyway, just after they were late to the party. If that’s accurate, then lose-lose.
- rchaud 4y ago
  How lucrative could it have been when the one major player (OpenSea) was slashing staff as early as July 2022? https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/07/15/nft-marketplace-opensea-layoffs-why-crypto-crashing/10068300002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/07/15/nft-marketpla...
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  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    That's a fair rebuttal, and I will admit that my recollection of last year is filtered through the very strange time compression of the COVID WFH era, and the extent of my perception of this was "What's an NFT? Is that something you can manage with Coinbase? There's another app now?" From an extremely layman view, it just seemed natural that the leading crypto app would support NFTs. But I'm not the only one to voice the opinion that it seemed like Coinbase had missed the NFT wave. I'm not a fan of big companies xeroxing each other's features, as it seems to be a dominant form of product "innovation" these days, but one could have assumed that Coinbase, being market leader in this space, would have done that for NFTs. And on the note of it being an extremely short fad- it is interesting that on occasion, the big tech incumbents might actually beat the upstart errant. Clubhouse seems pretty stagnant now, but Twitter Spaces seems to have had more vitality, even if it's just leaning on that site's massive social network as well as some free publicity from the current CEO's public drama. Of course, the NFT market exists independently of what any one company.

by dewey 4y ago

How is jumping on every fad a good thing? Focusing on their core business and not getting distracted by small month-long fads happening in their general industry sounds a lot more sensible.

Apocryphon 4y ago

It was a very lucrative fad, and as per that other thread, it sounds like Coinbase bought into it anyway by increasing headcount to build an NFT offering anyway, just after they were late to the party. If that’s accurate, then lose-lose.

rchaud 4y ago
How lucrative could it have been when the one major player (OpenSea) was slashing staff as early as July 2022? https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/07/15/nft-marketplace-opensea-layoffs-why-crypto-crashing/10068300002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/07/15/nft-marketpla...
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- Apocryphon 4y ago
  That's a fair rebuttal, and I will admit that my recollection of last year is filtered through the very strange time compression of the COVID WFH era, and the extent of my perception of this was "What's an NFT? Is that something you can manage with Coinbase? There's another app now?" From an extremely layman view, it just seemed natural that the leading crypto app would support NFTs. But I'm not the only one to voice the opinion that it seemed like Coinbase had missed the NFT wave. I'm not a fan of big companies xeroxing each other's features, as it seems to be a dominant form of product "innovation" these days, but one could have assumed that Coinbase, being market leader in this space, would have done that for NFTs. And on the note of it being an extremely short fad- it is interesting that on occasion, the big tech incumbents might actually beat the upstart errant. Clubhouse seems pretty stagnant now, but Twitter Spaces seems to have had more vitality, even if it's just leaning on that site's massive social network as well as some free publicity from the current CEO's public drama. Of course, the NFT market exists independently of what any one company.