16M+ TikTok followers. New England accent, drugstore-adjacent beauty positioning, WME representation, and the January 2023 L'Oréal Telescopic Lift Mascara controversy that became a FTC disclosure reference case.
Mighty Networks generated $500M in host earnings in 2025. Gina Bianchini's second act — from Ning to the paid community layer of the creator economy.
Founded 2021 by Cameron Zoub, Steven Schwartz, and Jack Sharkey. $20M+ from Founders Fund. $500M+ annualized volume. Acquired Tether in August 2024.
Founded 2020 by ex-Teachable operators Sid Yadav and Rudy Santino. $30M+ raised from Bond Capital. The community platform positioned at the premium and enterprise end of the market versus Skool.
Founded 2011 by Sahil Lavingia. Flat 10% transaction fee, no monthly. The 2015 pivot from venture-growth to profitable independent operation became a category-defining reference case in the modern creator economy.
Sworn in July 20, 2026, Deyci Alejandra Omaña Ortiz brings a creator-labor agenda to Colombia's Senate — social-security rights for performers and regulation naming digital platforms. The first national legislative test of platform worker classification.
Cosette Rinab — USC PR grad, 2.5M+ followers — just became ACC's first Creator-in-Residence. Inside the shift from renting creators to embedding them in strategy.
Threads is Meta's text-first social platform, launched July 5, 2023. 100M users in 5 days, 320M+ MAU today. Built on the Instagram graph, led by Adam Mosseri. The fastest-growing text-social platform in the post-Musk cycle.
Skool is the community-plus-course platform of the paid-community wave. Founded 2019 by Sam Ovens. Alex and Leila Hormozi became partners in 2023. Flat $99/month, zero revenue share, 10,000+ paying communities.
Beehiiv is the third leg of the newsletter economy — alongside Substack and Ghost. Founded 2021 by ex-Morning Brew operators Tyler Denk, Benjamin Hargett, Jake Hurd. ~$45M raised from Lightspeed. Flat SaaS pricing, no revenue share.
