“I have been to a Zoom funeral, a Zoom bar mitzvah and Zoom family reunions,” says Gina Bianchini, the founder of software company Mighty Networks. New online experiences like grocery shopping and streaming first-run movies have yet to find sustainable businesses. A generation of kids that’s adapted to Zoom school is going to be a lot more open to incorporating video and apps into learning in the years to come. By her estimates, online grocery fulfillment and delivery tacks about $20 onto a normal purchase. I was one of the people who paid $30 for an at-home digital ticket to Mulan — but there’s little evidence many other people did.

Source: Washington Post December 28, 2020 14:45 UTC