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Nov 17, 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. Samsung Now Brief Adds Nano Banana Suggestions
   (Samsung really said: here’s your daily chaos fruit.)

2. Google Search Console rolls out custom annotations for performance reports
   (SEO girlies about to annotate their entire personality.)

3. Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers
   (New model just dropped, time to break the internet again)

The Growth joke of the day

Sales Manager:
“The word ‘Impossible’ does not exist in my dictionary!”

Sales Rep:
“Well, maybe you should have checked it first before buying it.”

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework
  Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck was in software.

• How to build an organic Reddit strategy that drives SEO impact
  Whether it’s Google signing Reddit to a deal to deepen its AI partnership, more traditional SEO results that have favored Reddit content, or Reddit’s share of ChatGPT references (down but still leading among social platforms), there are plenty of compelling reasons to prioritize Reddit in your organic strategy.

• Danish startup FlatPay joins the club of European fintech unicorns to track
  Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, has joined the ranks of European fintech unicorns  or startups valued at more than $1 billion  a milestone that has driven some of the region’s biggest exits.

• Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky changes his name as new ID rules introduced
  Nik Storonsky has changed the spelling of his official name as a Revolut director to Nik Storonskiy, corporate filings show, in a move thought to align the spelling with how it appears on other official identification documents.
  

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People

• Jeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus

  Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive of the new venture.

Our next upcoming webinar

You sure you want to miss this one? 👀

The Future of Search is Conversation. ⚡️

In this session, with Theo we’ll dive into how brands can enhance their visibility within large language models (LLMs). We’ll start by defining brand visibility in the LLM landscape and then explore how AI overviews and modes shape search results.

We’ll discuss the nuances between branded and non-branded prompts and clarify the difference between monitoring LLMs versus actively engaging with them.

Additionally, we’ll cover the difference between SEO and GEO, and why GEO should not be treated as a standalone strategy.

📣 LIVE WEBINAR
📅 NOVEMBER 27, 2025
🕛 9AM PT - 12PM ET - 5PM GMT

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• How much of the AI data center boom will be powered by renewable energy?

  According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, the world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year $40 billion more than will be spent finding new oil supplies.

• Klarna founder challenges trillion-dollar spending on AI

  Klarna chief Sebastian Siemiatkowski has become the latest prominent artificial intelligence investor to warn against the tech industry’s multibillion-dollar dash to build data centres to power AI models.

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