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Feb 4 10 tweets 3 min read
I think there’s a $1,000,000 opportunity in creating a paid "Explain It To Me Like I'm 5" curation newsletter for tech, business, or marketing.

Here’s how I’d do it:
The problem: So much great content, so little time.

The solution: Weekly TLDR summary of best pieces of content from a given vertical.

• Tech
• Marketing
• Finance

It is critical that the summaries abstract the complexity and provide a simplified version of the original.
Economic model could look like:

Charge $20 per month.

50% of all gross proceeds go into a pool that is distributed back to the original content creators monthly to compensate them for their efforts.

Would need ~4,200 subs to do $1m gross, $500k net annually.

How I’d get them:
Market on Twitter and find a few large accounts willing to share (upfront fee or affiliate).

Pay for a few early early cross promotions in smaller, niche newsletters.

Partner with the underlying content creators—this is a way for them to reach people and generate “free” $$$.
None of this would require a team.

It would require a lot of time—to read, understand, simplify, and distill all of the original content.

But whoever does this will make great money and be one of the sharpest minds in the space.

Learning through the Feynman Technique!
Maybe I’m crazy, but I’d definitely pay for it across all of those verticals.

There is so much long-form content I want to read, but rarely have time to get through it all.

I’m happy to jam on it with anyone who is seriously interested.

@scottbelsky @gregisenberg you guys in?
Ok, that was pretty random, but I think it’s really interesting.

Follow me @SahilBloom for more business ideas, frameworks, and threads on…well…everything.

Cheers!
By the way, I think the most important part of this is making sure you establish a concrete and thoughtful structure for compensating the underlying creators.

No other curation platforms are doing it (that I’m aware of)—it would be a key way to stand out and get their buy-in.
And for everyone mentioning Morning Brew:

I love Morning Brew. I love @businessbarista & @austin_rief.

I’m just envisioning something more targeted:

• 1x per week
• Focused distillations on top content
• Covers podcasts, articles, etc.
DMs flooded about this. Sorry if I don’t get back to everyone.

Glad it sparked a lot of thinking, though.

No scarcity of opportunities out there, just a scarcity of people willing to capitalize on them!

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Feb 5
How to stop procrastinating:
Confession: I spent most of my life as a chronic procrastinator.

I also spent most of my life justifying that chronic procrastination—both internally and externally.

I told myself it was "just how I worked”—that the pressure of an imminent deadline was what I needed to thrive.
To be fair, I wasn't wildly off:

The Yerkes-Dodson Law says pressure and performance are positively correlated—up to a point, after which more pressure reduces performance.

The real issue: procrastination meant I only worked on the urgent—very rarely the long-term important.
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Feb 4
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” - Benjamin Franklin

Stories have the power to change the world. Be a story-teller or be a story-creator.

Check out today’s Friday Five! Learn something interesting, every single week. sahilbloom.substack.com/p/the-friday-f…
Huge shoutout to @cleoabram and @Nathanbarry—two of my favorite new creator discoveries—both featured in this week’s episode.

Cleo’s new “Huge If True” is going to be huge. Would invest!
One addition to the Franklin quote that came from the community…

Read something worth learning.

I like that.
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Feb 3
If you want to start a business but you’re struggling to come up with a great idea...

Here’s a tactical approach for idea generation:
This approach leverages one of my favorite business frameworks:

Clayton Christensen’s Model of Disruptive Innovation

In simple terms, it says that innovators can win market share by serving a segment of the market that is over or underserved by the big incumbent’s offering.
Basically, upstarts can win market share by serving one sub-segment of a big market extremely well.

Provide the exact level of product/service needed and use it as a wedge to expand.

Ok, now let’s get tactical.

Here’s how you can use the framework to generate business ideas:
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Feb 3
Y Combinator has been in the news a lot lately...

In the latest episode of Where It Happens, Eight Sleep founder @m_franceschetti tells us the crazy story of being rejected from YC twice and how he finessed the system to win.

It was epic…

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…
Other links to listen or watch!

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6wZDP3…

YouTube:
And join the conversation in our discord with 4,000+ others! discord.gg/P8EJhjk8
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Feb 2
Stock splits are interesting—psychologically more so than technically.

Google parent Alphabet just announced a 20-for-1 stock split and the share price is surging.

Here’s a (very) simple breakdown:
1/ There are two types of stock splits:

(1) Conventional
(2) Reverse

Let's focus on (1), as it’s the type that $GOOGL announced.

In a conventional split, a company issues more shares. Its share price is now lower, but the actual value of the Company does not change.
2/ Alphabet announced a 20-for-1 stock split.

So what happens?

You own 10 shares at a pre-split price of $3000 per share.

Post-split, you own 200 (10*20) shares at $150 ($3000/20) per share.

You have more shares, but there are more outstanding.

Your ownership did not change!
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Feb 1
If anyone thought the Meat Influencer life was warm and cozy…it’s not.

ButcherBox is giving away free grass fed ground beef for life to new subscribers who use the link below. Great for those cold winter nights. Enjoy!

bchrbox.co/sahil
For all the Web3 fans out there…I’m going to NFT this photo.

Proof of Steak: 1/1

Looks rare.
Also, for everyone who gave me heat about my sweet potato last time, they are just fine.

Thanks @austin_rief.
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