The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model

Brought to you by Sanity—The most customizable content layer to power your growth engine | Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security | Wix Studio—The web creation platform built for agencies — Anuj Rathi is the Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Jupiter Money, where he leads product management, marketing, design, growth, and analytics. Before Jupiter Money, Anuj served as the Senior Vice President of Revenue and Growth at Swiggy, VP of Product at SnapDeal, a senior PM at Walmart Labs, and the first-ever PM at Flipkart. He’s also one of the most beloved and respected product leaders in India. In this episode, we discuss:

Welcome to the jungle.

A deep dive into a mysterious and troubling question.

The late Julian Wasser had unprecedented access to stars at their most unguarded

Christopher Nolan counted on production designer Ruth De Jong and costume designer Ellen Mirojnik to bring his vision to life — all without CGI

Problems at Roblox (RBLX)

Flywire (NASDAQ: FLYW — $2.76 billion) describes itself as a “global payments enablement and software company.” Flywire primarily caters to industries with outdated payment systems like hospitals, universities, and some overseas travel groups. The Bear Cave believes Flywire is a commoditized product trading for a nosebleed multiple, with growing competition slowly eating away at the company’s client base.

A Short History of the World — Danielle DiMartino Booth

“Cease the day, dear. It’s special because a wonderful young lady was birthed 16 years ago. Blessed you’re in my life.” “Huge doors are opening to you now that you’ve hit 16. Enter them with caution and wisdom, son. You deserve only the best, settle for nothing less.”

Antitrust lawyers filed a class action lawsuit against private equity-owned Varsity Brands, the organizing force behind competitive cheerleading.

In the National Defense Authorization Act, Congress just empowered the Pentagon to learn who owns the defense contractors that supply it. This is good for national defense and bad for private equity.

Want to listen to this week’s edition of Ultra Successful? Click here or scroll to the bottom of the post to tune in. Success comes in many forms, but it happens internally first. Everything is decided in your mind and will extend outward in every action you take (or don’t). These decisions are pivot points that will guide what you aspire to and also - what you see as possible.

Don’t fool yourself into feeling productive — start making real moves.

Are you a Non-Obvious Pirate? Or an Obvious Non-Pirate?

It's about conversations, not conversions.

"Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated"

A thorough guide about what great culture looks like, and how to make it happen.

A plan for Q1 success

One of the least appreciated risks in the oil market: The increased substitution among energy sources

Dear Readers, As I head for another major energy conference in the Middle East that is attended by all Arab Energy Ministers, I would like to share with you some of the reports that we are working on for the rest of December and January 2024:

*New announcement for agribusiness leaders!

What needs to be overcome to experience seamless innovation pull through?

Forty miles northeast of Houston, a new city is being built. This is the story of the strangest and fastest-growing residential development in the US today.

Higher rates were expected to crush new multifamily supply. That's not happening and isn't on the horizon.

Congratulations, Stanford Law, you're now in the limelight.

And in (partial) defense of Harvard President Claudine Gay's controversial congressional testimony.

One very long list of recent trends on brand social.

I need you to weigh in on this post...

Credit card delinquency rates rising

Week in Review: Dec. 4-8

Hummingbird Ventures has built an astonishing track record – all while staying out of the limelight. Its secret to success? A meticulous approach to identifying outlier founders.

Stories move the world. Organizations that recognize this have the chance to exercise disproportionate influence.

As well as another $100B in stablecoins, and $2B of MakerDAO RWA treasury

Hi Fintech Architects, Welcome back to our podcast series! For those that want to subscribe in your app of choice, you can now find us at Apple, Spotify, or on RSS. In this conversation, we chat with Edward (Ed) Maslaveckas - CEO and co-founder at Bud Financial (Bud). Bud is an API platform with thoughtful data and service capabilities, is backed by world…

Writing about failure sucks. But here's the real story.

You are what you report

Welcome to today’s issue of the Opossum’s Substack. There’s a lot of new people on my email list so I wanted to catch everybody up. Today’s email is going to be a little different. This email will be pinned to the top of the Substack permanently. It will be a living document that outlines your learning journey to your first second income.

People like to feel smart so they focus on the easy things that they can feel confident in. You should focus on the hard things because the hard things are what move the needle forward.  Attribution is hard. And so so important.

When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?

But then again, what kind of deals are feasible in this market?

Saturday, December 2, 2023 – Issue 1411

Saturday, December 9, 2023 – Issue 1413

Curation is the fuel of the modern aspiration economy

All brands are in the show business

Words, Poetry and "The Book of HOV"

A "Color Purple" remix

Weź prosty pomysł i potraktuj go poważnie.

Wszystko, co należało powiedzieć, zostało już powiedziane. Ale ponieważ nikt nie słuchał, trzeba to powtórzyć.