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Platform Economics: How Instacart Leverages Time Into Profits
David S. Evans // November 16, 2023

Time is our most precious asset. Each day, we get just so much. Twenty-four hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. If we don’t use it, we lose it. We try to make the most of it. We can do lots of things with it and increasingly...

Why Retailers Don’t Want Consumers to Get an Extra Hour of Sleep
Retail // November 04, 2023

On Sunday (Nov. 5), most U.S. states will “fall back” an hour, giving people an extra wink of sleep. While the states that embrace this time change will relish the extra hour of slumber, the existence of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has long been a subject...