What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman,

co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew. As I have mentioned with the new and improved

Founders Journal, I am going to act as your startup Sherpa, reading the internet, and telling you why it matters and how you can use it in your own

businesses so you don't have to. I would love to know what you think about this format so

shoot me an email to Alex at morningbrew.com

introduce yourself I will email you back and tell me what you think about this idea

of me curating the best startup resources on the internet,

summarizing them or reading them to you and then telling you why it matters. on the

resources on the internet, summarizing them or reading them to you and then telling you why it matters. Now, onto today's episode, I am going to read and break down the great online game by Paci McCormick.

This essay is probably the most requested by my

followers and listeners and it provides a completely new way of looking at the

internet and our place in it but also as you'll see when I share my thoughts after reading the

essay, I believe Paki's words act as a refreshing and productive way to

measure ourselves in our own careers. So let's dive in. The Great Online Game, How to Win the Internet, May 10th 2021 by Paci McCormick.

This didn't start as a piece about games.

I set out to answer this question, why are tech growth

stocks sagging while crypto moons and value roars back? But I figured out how to

explain that in way fewer words. crypto is just more fun.

But crypto itself is not the game.

It's just the in-game currency for a much bigger game

played across the internet that involves

CEOs, influencers,

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