Oct 15, 2025
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One day in the 1990s, Alan Jay received a surprising phone call at work from Jeff Bezos’s assistant, who said the Amazon founder wanted to meet with him during an upcoming trip to the UK. That meeting would eventually lead to Amazon acquiring IMDB, the movie database...
Oct 10, 2025
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If Stuart Schuffman were in his early 20s today and building an independent media career, he’d probably be a TikTok influencer, but when he launched Broke Ass Stuart in the early 2000s, the natural medium was a print zine, one he printed out and stapled together...
Oct 8, 2025
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By the time Eric Coffie launched his YouTube channel in 2016, he was already one of the most successful federal government contractors in the US and employed an entire team that specialized in erecting steel buildings. The YouTube channel came out of his frustration of...
Oct 6, 2025
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The Coppell Chronicle isn’t your average Substack newsletter. For one, the headlines are incredibly boring. Secondly, there’s really no free version of it, since every issue that’s sent out includes a paywall. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that...