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🔴 This agency paid out $10M to creators
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🔴 This agency paid out $10M to creators

Plus, a few notes on landing and retaining B2B brand deals at tech companies like Anthropic, Lovable, and Notion.

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🔴 In defense of content

It's in the apps, it's in your phone, it's less about the information than the container around it.

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🔴 Building a premium tech newsletter business

How Evan Armstrong turned a single trusted point of view into a newsletter, an ad business, and a consulting arm.

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🔴 What happens when you ban the cool kids?

Teen girls remain culture's most reliable leading indicator. Government bans threaten to push that signal out of public view.

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🔴 How this creator planned his own exit

Jerome Aceti spent 18 years turning distribution into ownership — and started winding down at his peak.


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🔴 In defense of content
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🔴 In defense of content

It's in the apps, it's in your phone, it's less about the information than the container around it.

🔴 What happens when you ban the cool kids?
Essay

🔴 What happens when you ban the cool kids?

Teen girls remain culture's most reliable leading indicator. Government bans threaten to push that signal out of public view.

🔴 What makes you trust a creator?
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🔴 What makes you trust a creator?

A framework for creators building trust — or earning belief — one rung at a time. Also, we want to know what makes you trust the creators you follow?


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🔴 This agency paid out $10M to creators
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🔴 This agency paid out $10M to creators

Plus, a few notes on landing and retaining B2B brand deals at tech companies like Anthropic, Lovable, and Notion.

🔴 Building a premium tech newsletter business
Profile

🔴 Building a premium tech newsletter business

How Evan Armstrong turned a single trusted point of view into a newsletter, an ad business, and a consulting arm.

🔴 How this creator planned his own exit
Profile

🔴 How this creator planned his own exit

Jerome Aceti spent 18 years turning distribution into ownership — and started winding down at his peak.


Your guide to growing and monetizing creator-first businesses.
New interviews every Tuesday. New analysis every Friday.



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