Taboola is getting boo’d 

There’s a recent article on Medium that was published called Taboola: A Truly Evil Company. For background, Taboola has built a Google Adwords competitor with cheaper RPMs for advertisers and more “native” formats for publishers. The success of the business is shocking with more than $1.38B in revenue in 2021 and $108M in free cash…

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Talent & Distribution… and reputation 

Even if you’re not a golf fan if you’ve probably heard some rumblings about LIV golf tour. It’s the newest professional golf tour that is competing with the PGA Tour. LIV is funded by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudia Arabia.  LIV has stacked itself with some of the biggest names in golf – from…

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Substack and growth – has the platform figured out how to succeed?

There’s a thread going around written by Gergely Orosz who writes the #1 tech newsletter on Substack. In his thread, he mentioned why Substack makes a ton of sense for him because of the growth it provides his paid newsletter. In the example, he says the Substack Network provided him 23% growth last month and since it…

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The lesson from OnlyFans

In late April, The Information did a profile on OnlyFans newest CEO. Ami Gan, the former CMO of the infamous platform, took on a challenge unlike any other in her career. OnlyFans has more than 1,000 employees, on pace to $2.5B in revenue this year, and more than $350M in income, and it’s doubling year…

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What’s to come during hard times

The odds are the following: something like, yes, they (the Fed) can engineer a soft landing, a third of a percent chance. Probably a third of a percent chance they can engineer a mild recession…and then there’s a chance this could be much harder than that.”  – Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP MorganChase on 5/4/22…

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Video: Money Maker or Mistake?

TikTok is the most powerful network in the world right now.  The platform was the fastest app to get to 1B users in 2021, doing it in half the time it took Twitter and Instagram. But it’s not just teenagers spending hours scrolling — more than 30% of users had a household income of more…

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