BONUS #1 🔥 The Inventor of Virality: Jonah Peretti, Buzzfeed Founder & CEO

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🎸 “Beatle Billionaire” — Paul McCartney’s $1B. Nvidia’s honeypot spy. Amazon’s Ring drone. +Moon Job

Sir Paul McCartney is music’s 3rd billionaire… because of music he owns, not music he created.There are more spies in SF than DC… so we got the history on Honeypot spies like Nvidia’s.Amazon just launched a flying Ring security camera drone… but the key was making it dumber.Plus, ...  Show more

🕵️ “The Spy Who Shagged Me” — Jensen’s affair. Skims Advent recall. NFL’s cleat disruptor. +Pineapple Pizza Lawsuit

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang confessed to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy… But is he too big to fire?The Skims advent calendar is going viral for failing… Kim missed “Advent Strategy 101.”QB Joe Burrow cleats from Caddix, which are banned by the NFL… So did Caleb Williams, and nei ...  Show more

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