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The Compounding Creator
How one creator made $1,332,400 across 6 revenue streams in 2020:
🎬 $135k - Ads
🔥 $177k - Affiliates
💰 $182k - Sponsorships
📚 $470k - Self-paced courses
🚀 $295k - Cohort-based course
⭕️ $71k - Community
Breakdown 👇
Where Greta Garbo was elusive, Oprah was relatable. Her producer later told her: “You are America—that’s the whole point.” This made TV a natural medium for Oprah. Oprah was playing herself; TV amplified her authenticity.
Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
One unresolved tension here is how to mix individual backers with institutional backers. Andy covered his first year’s expenses via a grant from Emergent Ventures for example. This might be a strong argument for a more sophisticated platform than Substack to run the subscriptions through - ideally you’d like some nice way to combine individual back... See more
Tom Critchlow • Reimagining the Research Lab
Competitors are closing gaps, and fast. They’re doing everything they can to grab customers from Zoom and get a bigger piece of the market. And new ones are trying to innovate in this suddenly very high-demand market.
Hiten Shah • Why Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit
After AI beat them, professional go players got better and more creative
Henrik Karlssonopen.substack.com
the flourishing of creativity and skills tells us something about what might happen at the tail end of the human skill distribution when more AI systems come online. As humans learn from AIs, they might push through blockages that have kept them stalled and reach higher.
You are not just who you are in the present, you are also holding the potential of who you can become. You are a being who is constantly becoming, the greatest gift you have in the present is the ability to choose who you want to be next. Sacrifices are, therefore, inevitable if you want to achieve competency in something.