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Nov 28, 2025

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

Welcome to your daily unfair advantage.

Every morning, we cut through the noise to bring you sharp insights, fast news, and fresh sparks to light up your brain and fuel your hustle. From scrappy hacks to big tech moves, AI shifts to culture flips this is your intel to stay ahead, move fast, and break boring.

Think of it as your growth-fueled espresso shot.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Best iPad apps to boost productivity and make your life easier
   (Productivity apps: because my willpower clearly isn’t enough.)

2. The future will be explained to you in Palo Alto
   (If it’s not explained in Palo Alto, is it even the future?)

3. Snapchat Highlights Post Christmas Opportunities for Brands
   (Snap is out here turning January into Q5.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the productivity app break up with me?
Because it said, “I can’t boost someone who refuses to boost themselves.” 

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Review Platform Presence Correlates with More Citations

  Being listed on review sites (Trustpilot, Yelp, G2) led to more AI citations, suggesting third-party reputation is a relevant digital marketing growth signal for generative AI models.

• Here are the 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
  There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were $1 billion in size or larger.

• Google's John Mueller Jokes On Future GEO-Detox SEO Billable Work
  Google's John Mueller made a joke about how next year, SEO companies will be offering GEO-Detox services as a billable line item after many of the SEO companies already billed their clients for GEO services.

• OpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan
  In August, parents Matthew and Maria Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over their 16-year-old son Adam’s suicide, accusing the company of wrongful death. On Tuesday, OpenAI responded to the lawsuit with a filing of its own, arguing that it shouldn’t be held responsible for the teenager’s death.

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People

Not many movements from our fellow Senior Growth Marketers today 🫠 

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