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Ko-fi: The Zero-Fee Platform Serving 1 Million Creators
Ko-fi charges 0% on creator donations — the simplest moat in the creator economy. 1M+ creators, $150M+ processed, bootstrapped since 2012.
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Naval Ravikant: A Tweet Thread That Reshaped Creator Wealth
Naval Ravikant co-founded AngelList ($3.8B managed), backed 200+ startups including Uber and Twitter, and turned a 40-tweet thread into 10M+ downloads.
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Matt Taibbi: From Rolling Stone to Racket News
Matt Taibbi — Rolling Stone veteran, Twitter Files journalist, nine books — built Racket News into a 30,000+ paid-subscriber newsroom generating $2M+ annually on Substack.
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HasanAbi: The Political Streamer's $8M Media Operation
HasanAbi — 2.5M Twitch followers, 231K peak concurrent viewers, Streamy Award winner — built the largest left-wing political media operation on a platform designed for gaming.
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Memberful: The White-Label Membership Platform That Powers the Creator Economy's Serious Publishers
Memberful is the white-label membership platform, acquired by Patreon in 2018, that lets creators own their Stripe account, subscriber data, and brand while the infrastructure stays invisible.
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Jackie Aina: How FORVR Mood Went Sephora-Nationwide
Jackie Aina — U.S. Army veteran, 3.4M YouTube subscribers, FORVR Mood founder ($6M year-one revenue, Sephora nationwide), TIME100 Creators 2026 — built the beauty creator-to-founder conversion case.
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Mark Manson: The Anti-Guru Who Sold 16 Million Copies of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson turned a profanity-laced blog post into a 16-million-copy bestseller, co-authored Will Smith's memoir, and built a seven-figure digital media business on anti-guru positioning.
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Matt Yglesias: Slow Boring And The Post-Vox Independent Template
Matt Yglesias co-founded Vox, left for Substack in 2020, and built Slow Boring into one of the largest individual-writer political subscription businesses in the United States.
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Packy McCormick: The Investor-Writer Hybrid
Packy McCormick built Not Boring into the cleanest investor-writer hybrid in the creator economy — long-form business analysis newsletter plus a venture fund deploying capital into the same companies.
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The McElroy Brothers: How Three Brothers Built A Podcast Family Business
Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy built My Brother My Brother and Me into a multi-show podcast family business — The Adventure Zone, Sawbones, Shmanners, books, tours, a TV adaptation.