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The Hustle employs the world’s best GIF-maker… |
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… and his name is Zachary Crockett, who also happens to be our indefatigable Sunday story editor. When he’s not crafting 2k-word viral deep dives (e.g., “How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos”), Zack is making the iconic GIFs that lead off our daily newsletters. The GIF was invented in 1987…… by a computer scientist named Steve Wilhite (FWIW, he says GIF is pronounced “jif”, with a soft G). The ubiquitous format was originally created to compress an image size with minimal data loss. Today, it’s an incredible medium to The genius of Zack’s GIFs is how little information he needsTypically, he can craft the perfect GIF just based on an article’s title. Here were 5 of our favorites from 2020: |
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The GIF that took over a whole email |
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Zack’s best GIF work in 2020 may well have been on July 24. On this date, the lead story was about the making of alcoholic beverage White Claw. While Zack did his usual fine work on the lead story, he incorporated the White Claw GIF into each subsequent news piece: “The flavored-alcohol empire behind White Claw” |
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“Could sitting on the floor be better than parkin’ it in an office chair?” |
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“The most expensive thing you’ve ever bought in cash” |
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The best ideas from our podcast, My First Million |
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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri (and stud producer Abreu Andrade) have fired off every cell in their brains this year on the My First Million podcast… all in an effort to cook up the best business ideas for you. Here are some of the most popular episodes:
From this glorious bounty of ideas, we asked Sam, Shaan and frequent guest Andrew Wilkinson to tell us their favorites from 2020: Sam: “Clout Kitchens”“Cloud kitchens are a booming, but competitive, space. So how do you stand out? By partnering with influencers, to create influencer-inspired meals (AKA ‘clout kitchens’). We first mentioned the idea in February… YouTube superstar MrBeast JUST released MrBeast Burgers, hitting top of the app stores.” (Episode #50) Shaan: Hyper-local newsletters“Fed up with poor local news coverage in his town of Victoria, BC, Canada, Andrew Wilkinson started his own local news outlet, Capital Daily. With 40k subscribers in a city of 200k, Capital Daily has a bigger audience than the local newspaper. He believes the model can be replicated in different cities, with each newsletter generating $200k-$500k in profits.” (Episode #97) Andrew: Always-on AirPods“With AirPods taking off and opening up SiriOS, an app should be created to allow you to have ‘always on’ communication, where you can send someone a voice message by saying their name — like an Alexa/AirPod hybrid.” (Episode #47) |
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Our fave Twitter moments |
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The Hustle enjoys getting loose on the Twitter machine (you can follow our team here). Meanwhile, these were some of our favorite Twitter-related moments of 2020: Alex Garcia, our social manager, sent the battle of the burgers (“Whataburger vs. In-N-Out”) trending on Twitter LOL… |
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Andrew Yang shared our story about a town printing its own currency… |
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Trung got @ElonMusk to hit that reply… |
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Thank you all again (with a special shoutout to Kaylee Jenzen, our email master who makes sure every newsletter is sent to perfection). Top daily email newsletter sends of 2020
Mark Zuckberg jokes that received an “I’m crying LOL” reader comment:
The image of the yearThe Hustle’s rock star designer Malary Lee made the “Mt. Rushmore of Beards” after the world saw Jack Dorsey’s out-of-control facial hair at an October Senate grilling. |
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