Patreon is rolling out new automated features for creators to convert free members to paid ones. Last year, Patreon introduced e-commerce features and free memberships, which allow fans to subscribe to a creator’s public posts without having to pay for paywalled content. Now that creators have become more accustomed to these tools, Patreon is adding […]
Why ORNG’s founder pivoted from college food ordering to real-time money transfer
Alex Parmley has been thinking about building his latest company, ORNG, since he was working on his last company, Phood. Launched in 2018, Phood was a payments app that let students use dining dollars to order food from third-party apps and merchants anywhere in the world. It built the first campus-integrated debit card and worked […]
Billy Napier GoFundMe, explained: Why Florida fans are raising money for buyout cost to fire coach
Billy Napier and his Florida football program have fans feeling the blues. Once the cream of the crop among college football programs, the Gators have fallen well off the pace of some of its contemporaries, struggling to mount much of an offense on an SEC championship, let alone compete for a national title. Napier isn’t […]
Cohost, the X rival founded with an anti-Big Tech manifesto, is running out of money and will shut down
Cohost, a would-be X rival launched to the public in June 2022, is shutting down, the company announced via the social network’s staff account earlier this week. The service had operated much like Twitter, offering users the ability to follow others, view posts in a feed, and like and repost content shared by others. However, […]
Cowboys QB Dak Prescott gets most guaranteed money in NFL history
The Dallas Cowboys made fans wait all offseason, but they finally have locked down their star quarterback to a long-term deal. The Cowboys and Dak Prescott agreed to a four-year, $ 240 million deal according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. That deal makes Prescott the first $ 60 million per year player in NFL history, and […]