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My current boyfriend and I grew up with wildly different life experiences. He comes from a solid family: two loving parents and a little brother. He hasn’t experienced any hardships, aside from the loss of a family dog or two.

By dedicating myself to learning how to build a side-hustle that I love (and I do love my side-hustle) with scalable income, I can provide that freedom to my son in two ways.

By seeing this pervasive phenomenon so clearly, spelling out its practical implications for businesses and consumers, and giving it a catchy name, Anderson helped make “The Long Tail” a buzzword, and earned a spot in TIME magazine’s 2007 list of the world’s 100 most influential people. (In it Malcolm Gladwell described the concept as “a Truly Big Idea.”)

Approximately a decade and a half later, we can see just how well Anderson’s thesis has played out. He was absolutely right about the benefits to what he called “aggregators,” particularly the e-commerce platforms selling digital entertainment: He accurately saw that, unburdened from the costs and risks of carrying physical inventory, a platform like Amazon or iTunes was suddenly free to offer an unlimited assortment of ebooks, songs, and other digital goods. Even platforms that sell physical products through many third-party sellers — like eBay and the Amazon Marketplace — could and did easily offer an endless assortment of products. Collectively, therefore, this tail of niche offerings in each platform’s infinite catalog added up to an enormous sales total.

Anderson captured both the coming phenomenon of the Long Tail and offered a playbook for taking advantage of it, which attracted broad interest, especially among internet entrepreneurs — basically, an upside for anyone who wasn’t going to win by being in the “hits” business.

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In fact, depending on exactly where on the sales curve you drew the dividing line between the head (sales of the most popular products) and the tail (sales of niche products), and how long the tail actually stretched, the tail was potentially as large as the head, Anderson predicted. Any company that managed to aggregate these niche sales stood to bring in immense revenue. The profit potential was huge, too, as Anderson and many of his readers saw: Although it’s no easy feat to build a well-running, trustworthy marketplace that attracts large numbers of both buyers and sellers, once such a platform is up and running, the costs of adding new users and new products becomes negligible.

“The Long Tail” was Anderson’s catchy name for a set of observations about the economics of internet markets — observations that are as resonant as ever in today’s “passion economy,” in which anyone can try their hand at turning their specialized interests into sources of income. In his article and book, building on the work of academics like Erik Brynjolfsson, Jeffrey Hu, Michael Smith, and Anita Elberse, Anderson observed that brick-and-mortar stores were constrained by limited shelf space, and therefore aimed to carry only the most popular products. In sharp contrast, online platforms like Amazon and Netflix had infinite shelf space. The tech journalist’s thesis: This radical shift would have far-reaching effects, from the media and entertainment industries that were his main focus, to the markets for everything from crafts to kitchen appliances.

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Fifteen years ago, as Silicon Valley was recovering from the dot-com bust, David Hornik, a long-time VC at August Capital, started seeing a recurring theme in pitches from startup founders: overt references to a new term called “the long tail.” A typical pitch deck included a slide showing a stylized sales graph taken straight from a 2004 Wired magazine article by that name, written by the magazine’s editor-in-chief at the time, Chris Anderson.

Learning skills that I can pass on to my son so that he can learn how to earn a living doing work that he is passionate about. That means that if someone else is not willing to offer him his dream job, he will have the tools to go out and create it for himself.

I want my son and future generations of my family to not stress about money. The most valuable thing money can buy is freedom; the freedom to spend your days doing what you love.

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“That slide was a constant,” Hornik recalls. “I saw it every week for years.” By the time Anderson converted his article into his bestselling 2006 book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, the ideas represented by the term were so well-known in internet startup circles and the slide so commonplace that one founder labeled a slide “The Obligatory Long Tail Slide,” captioning the accompanying graph with the phrase “Enough said.”

But for me, it is worth it. In the last year, I became a father, and the concept of building wealth took on a whole new meaning. My focus is not only to provide financial security for the rest of my life but for my son’s entire life and any kids he may have.