Alex Danco on the culture of gift-giving that powers Silicon Valley

Dialectic host Jackson Dahl interviews writer and Shopify Product Director Alex Danco about the culture of gift-giving, which Danco argues underpins technology, innovation and creative work and offers a route to solving many of capitalism's coordination problems. The nearly four-hour conversation also covers AI, originality and moats, accountability in companies, and why podcasts remain influential. Danco rose to prominence writing his Snippets newsletter while at VC firm Social Capital in 2015, and he joined Shopify in 2020.