Grace Hawkins
Stories by Grace Hawkins
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How to make $5K a month with faceless AI UGC
AI avatars turned brand content into a productized service. Here's what faceless creators actually earn in 2026, the $171 tool stack, and…
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Why Bankers are Quitting Finance to Start Matcha Brands
Burnout and AI are gutting junior finance roles. Here's the unit economics of the escape hatch, and whether you should take it.
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What Is Board, the $500 Console From Mirror’s Founder
Brynn Putnam sold Mirror to Lululemon for $500M, watched it get written down to nearly zero, then raised $20M for a new…
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What Is Agentic Commerce and Why Founders Should Care
Shopify and Google built the rails for AI agents to shop and buy on your customers' behalf. AI-referred orders are already up…
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How Does Phia App Work? The $185M AI Startup Explained
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni built a $185M AI shopping startup in under a year. Here's how Phia actually works, how it…
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How to Make Money During the World Cup 2026
9 real plays for founders and side hustlers, ranked by startup cost and speed to first dollar, with earnings estimates for each.
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Anthropic IPO: How Dario Amodei Built a $1 Trillion Startup in 4 Years
Anthropic filed for its IPO at a $965 billion valuation after outpacing OpenAI in revenue while spending 4x less on compute. Here's…
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How Much Can You Make on Airbnb During the World Cup 2026?
Deloitte projects $4,000 per host but the real number is lower. City-by-city earnings, net-after-fees math, the $750 bonus, and who should actually…
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Tim Cook Succession: 5 Founder Lessons From Apple’s CEO Handoff
Steve Jobs told Cook 'never ask what I would do.' Cook told Ternus the same thing. Here's what the $350B-to-$4T succession chain…
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How Many Income Streams Do Creators Have in 2026?
Top creators run 7+ revenue streams and earn 40% more than single-source creators. Here's the data, the breakdown by stream type, and…
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What Is Thirty Ink? Inside Steph Curry’s 74M Empire
In June 2025, CNBC cameras followed Stephen Curry into a mahogany-lined conference room near San Francisco’s Financial District. Ten executives from different…
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Brian Chesky Is Building an AI Company While Running Airbnb
The Airbnb CEO is launching an AI lab focused on interface design, not chatbots. Here's what his founder mode move means for…
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How to Start a Pickleball Business in 2026
Real startup costs, profit margins, financing options, and the honest math on when a pickleball facility makes money and when it doesn't.
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How to Become a World Cup 2026 Vendor
City-by-city applications are still open in Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and Kansas City. Here's what each program requires, what permits you need, and…
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5 SpaceX IPO Lessons Every Founder Should Steal
The largest IPO in history isn't just a financial event. It's a 270-page playbook on founder control, pricing conviction, and building the…
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How to Start a Matcha Business in 2026
Three business models, real startup costs, profit margins by type, and the sourcing risk most guides ignore.
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Jensen Huang Computex 2026 Keynote Recap for Founders
NVIDIA declared itself an infrastructure company, unveiled RTX Spark for local AI agents, and committed $150 billion a year to Taiwan. Here's…
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ClickUp’s 100x Org Explained and Why Every CEO Is Watching
ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce, deployed 3,000 AI agents, and offered $1M salaries to the survivors. Here's what the 100x org…
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CNN Sues Perplexity AI: What Every Founder Needs to Know
CNN filed a federal copyright lawsuit accusing Perplexity of scraping 17,000+ stories after licensing talks collapsed. The case is a warning for…
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How to Make Money With Vibe Coding in 2026
7 income streams producing $600 to $20,000/month for non-developers, with real numbers, tools, and a 6-month roadmap from side project to full-time…