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Adam Ryan 🤝
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Adam Ryan 🤝
@AdamRy_n
Founder & CEO @WorkweekInc | Where business leaders trade lessons you can’t Google, and B2B marketers find the right buyer and real ROI
- This might be the best Paris 2024 story: Zeng Zhiying made her Olympics debut at 58-years old. Born in China, she is now representing Chile in table tennis because of an incredible journey. At age 18, she expected to go to the Olympics for her birth country, China, as one of
- The Barstool deal is the talk of Twitter. The company was sold for $500M to Penn in 2020. Three years later, Portnoy acquired 100% of the brand back for $0. But that's not the whole truth. Here's what really happened 👇
- In 2016, Formula One was a struggling racing organization in desperate need of a cash infusion. Now, with the Miami Grand Prix just days away, the group has reached a valuation of over $17 billion. Here's how one great story turned a brand in crisis into a media juggernaut 🧵
- Today's media operations fail: Parler sent an email to all users with 300+ of their verified users CC'd instead of BCC'd Now hundreds of people are replying and everyone has access to the personal emails of many verified users and Parler investors
- During the first season of Friends, the 6 cast members each made $22,500 per episode Here’s how they used a rare negotiating technique to start earning $20 million per year EACH - decades after the show stopped production
- In May 2021, FTX signed a 19-year, $135 million contract to secure the naming rights for the Miami Heat arena How could company that hadn't existed for 3 years sign a 19-year contract?
- OnlyFans has more than 16,000 creators who make $50K+ a year. Not sure any other creator platforms can close to topping that.
- Vice was supposed to be the next CNN. At their peak, they had a $5.7B valuation and turned down an acquisition play from Disney. Now, Vice is the latest new media group prepping for bankruptcy. What happened to this media giant? A few thoughts.
- How to test if someone is a good person or not? Watch them deboard a plane.
- Great products outlive their origin stories. My favorite example? Flintstones Vitamins. Here's the story of one of the most successful pharmaceutical products of all time 👇💊🦕
- Everything is sales. Few understand this.
- Replying to @AdamRy_nBarstool is back in his control, and no one can tell him what he can or can't say. To him, I'm sure that's priceless.
- Sending “??????” on Slack when someone hasn’t responded in 25 minutes 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩