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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.

🔴 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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🔴 "Excuse me, are you two a couple?"

Meet Cutes NYC asks strangers how they met — and turned it into a community of 6 million, a book, and a photobooth.

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🔴 How a space creator took 8M+ followers to NASA

AstroKobi built his audience by making space easy to understand. As AI flooded the niche, he shifted from commentary to reporting from inside NASA, ESA, and CERN.

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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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🔴 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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🔴 Rule one of making a show

There is one make-or-break factor for any podcast, YouTube show, or livestream. It’s not about format, it’s not about structure, and it’s not about production value.

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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.

Profile

🔴 How this creator planned his own exit

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

Profile

🔴 "Excuse me, are you two a couple?"

Meet Cutes NYC asks strangers how they met — and turned it into a community of 6 million, a book, and a photobooth.