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Sep 02, 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.

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Quick Hits

1. AI Isn’t Just Chatting—It’s Coaching Consumers Through Inflation
   (AI as a financial coach isn’t a gimmick—it’s survival tech.)

2. Work From Home? Try Work From Space. Big Tech’s Vision for Gen Z (Altman, Bezos, Musk: rebranding Gen Z’s hustle culture from burnout to blast-off.)

3. Meta’s AI Guardrails Fail—Bots Caught Producing Problematic Content
   (AI without guardrails is growth without brakes.)

The Growth joke of the day

SEO is like hiding a treasure…
and then begging Google for a map. 🗺️

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Revolut Kicks Off $75B Secondary Offering—Fintech’s Biggest Flex Yet

  Revolut has launched a secondary sale of its shares valuing the financial technology giant at $75 billion, a source familiar with the company said on Monday, as the London-based group doubles down on its expansion plans to rival bigger lenders.

• The Death of SEO Blogs – What Does This Mean for SMB Marketing?

  Blogging is not dead, it has just transformed: it offers new opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses if they focus on quality and authenticity instead of quantity.

• Elon Musk Just Delivered a Ringing Endorsement of the iPhone’s Staying Power

  For all of the talk in Silicon Valley about how screwed Apple is in the AI race, the iPhone maker got a glowing endorsement of its staying power this past week from an unlikely source: Elon Musk.The billionaire’s artificial-intelligence company and his social-media platform sued the iPhone maker, claiming it was violating antitrust laws by giving preferential treatment to its own AI partner (and Musk enemy), OpenAI and ChatGPT.

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  People

  After 9 Months Searching, Ex-Microsoft Pro Says Roles Require ‘Superman’ Skills
  A 50-year-old tech professional, Mody Khan, lost his job at Microsoft last December and has since been struggling through a nine-month-long job hunt. The Pakistani-origin immigrant revealed that his savings are nearly exhausted, putting him at risk of losing his home in Texas.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Runway Eyes Robotics for Future Revenue Growth

  Runway, traditionally focused on video generation AI, is expanding into robotics and autonomous systems. Its realism-rich world models offer valuable simulation capabilities for training AI policies in robotics and self-driving industries.

• AI Meets the Back Office—LayerX Scores $100M Series B

  Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance, tax, procurement, and HR in Japan. Yet only 16% of digital transformations succeed, and that’s only 4–11% in traditional industries.

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