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July 18, 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.

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Quick Hits

1. Meet GPT’s New Superpower: The General-Purpose Agent
   (The age of prompt engineering is evolving into task automation.)

2. Threads Rolls Out Image Sharing in Direct Messages
   (Meta’s playbook in action: feature parity > user retention > growth loop.)

3. From Zero to Unicorn: Lovable Raises $200M Series A in Record Time
   (This isn’t just fast—it’s funded virality.)

The Growth joke of the day

The trending audio I almost used…
And now my reel is somewhere in the algorithm’s basement. 🕳️📉

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Built by a Former Googler, Athena Is the AI Search Tool to Watch

  Andrew Yan, ex-Google Search engineer, launches Athena to help brands appear in AI-generated answers. With over 100 clients, Athena is positioned to address rising concerns over visibility in a zero-click internet.

• Creators, Take Note: Twitch Is Testing a New Vertical Format

  Twitch begins alpha testing vertical video, targeting TikTok and Instagram Reels audiences. This shift in content format gives creators and marketers new tools to engage audiences in mobile-native formats—a key growth hacking opportunity.

• $260M for Space-Age Manufacturing: Hadrian’s Big Bet on Automation

  Investors are continuing to rally behind the call to reindustrialize American industry, this time by building out a $260 million war chest for automated manufacturing startup Hadrian to scale its factory footprint and make even more machine parts

• Family Plan Just Got Better: Spotify Adds Audiobook Access

  Spotify on Thursday announced an expansion of its premium audiobooks service, with two new plans that offer additional listening hours to subscribers, and allow other family members to access the service.

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  People

• Astronomer Faces Backlash Amid Accusations of CEO’s Affair and Workplace Toxicity

  A prominent astronomer is facing backlash over allegations of fostering a toxic workplace culture. Reports suggest the scandal surfaced after an alleged affair involving the CEO was exposed.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M

  Confident Security, a startup offering end-to-end encryption for foundational AI models, emerges with $4.2M in funding. Their CONFSEC product ensures enterprise users' data isn't stored or seen, aiming to unlock AI adoption in regulated industries.

• ChatGPT Just Leveled Up: Meet the Agent That Controls Your Desktop

  OpenAI is going all in on the most-hyped trend in AI right now: AI agents, or tools that go a step beyond chatbots to complete complex, multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf.

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