Hugo Amsellem - Researching & Investing in new consumer trends.

The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?

Loneliness is now one of the most important problems our generation has to solve. I cover 160+ companies leveraging AI, gaming, dating, and more to solve loneliness at scale, all sharing one core belief: Technology can help us belong.

The Creator Economy will look like the Music Business.

Or why I don't believe in the creator middle-class for now.

How to Invest in Creators?

9 financing options and 23 companies pioneering new models.

The Creator Lifecycle: How can you turn your audience into an empire?

How are successful creators transforming audiences into empires? To better understand the process, here’s the framework I use: The Creator Lifecycle.

Mapping the Creator Economy

I spent the past couple of months going down the Creator Economy rabbit hole. Here is a map of 150+ companies I found.

The Definition of a Creator

As "Creators" became the word to define a whole new generation of internet explorers, I asked myself what a creator really is. And I came up with a definition.

The European Tech Ecosystem Doesn’t Really Exist (Yet)

Exactly a year ago, we decided to go on a European tour [http://thefamily.co/tour] with The Family [http://thefamily.co]. A bit like rockstars (but without the screaming fans), we headed to 13 cities over 9 months and explored their respective tech ecosystems. Lisbon, Tallinn, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Amsterdam,

3 Myths from the Berlin Tech Ecosystem

The stories you hear about Berlin today are like the light from distant stars: they’re coming from the past. Most people still believe you can find 200 m2 apartments for less than €1k/month, pay engineers less than a Community Manager in San Francisco & burn money like it’s

#BerlinCryptoCapital: A Portrait Series featuring the people shaping Berlin’s crypto ecosystem

Follow the #BerlinCryptoCapital thread here! [https://twitter.com/HugoAmsellem/status/951385660342054913] > Coming from Paris to start The Family [https://www.thefamily.co/] in Berlin, the city only meant two things for me: Rocket Internet & Soundcloud. After a few months — and as I got more and more contaminated by the crypto-virus

A Couple of Bad Habits in Berlin

When I moved to Berlin a year ago to launch The Family [http://www.thefamily.co] , I knew almost nothing about its tech scene. As a Parisian, I was obviously biased, as our local ecosystem literally went from “Meh… [https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/29/welcome-to-the-french-tech-ecosystem/]”to “ wtf happened!… [https: