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June 28, 2024
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Welcome to the 83rd issue.
Today's topics:
Dating Apps Monopoly
A tool to Get Detailed Insights for On-Page SEO
One recommended video on Solving System Business Problems & Creating Systems
Dating Apps Monopoly
If you looked at the parent companies of all dating apps in the world, you'd realize that they are owned by one single company known as Match Group.
As of June 2024, Match Group owns the following dating services:
Archer
Asian People Meet
Azar
Baby Boomer People Meet
Black People Meet
Black Christian People Meet
Black Professional People Meet
BLK
Catholic People Meet
Chinese People Meet
Chispa
Delightful
Democratic People Meet
Divorced People Meet
GenX People Meet
Hakuna
Hinge
India Match
Interracial People Meet
Italian People Meet
J People Meet
Latino People Meet
LDS Planet
Little People Meet
Loveandseek
Marriage Minded People Meet
Match.com
Meetic
OkCupid
Ourtime
Pairs
Peoplemeet
Petpeoplemeet
Plenty of Fish
Republican People Meet
Senior Black People Meet
Ship
Single People Meet
Stir
The League
Tinder
Upward
Yuzu
Veggie People Meet
Except Bumble, there are very few dating apps not owned by Match Group.
If you have a monopoly like this, it can be abused. For example, a guy banned on one dating app will be banned on all the others.
And this isn't just for dating apps.
If you plot a graph of all media channels that actually get views, you'll realise most of them are owned by one company.
The same is true for countless popular newspapers.
If you read history, John D Rockefeller did the same with his Oil Monopoly.
If you want to build a big business in a vertical, this seems like a good strategy to follow.
Reduce prices so that your competitors can't compete with you and have to sell for pennies on dollar. When they can't sustain growth to pay enough to their employees, they will sell their business to you for much cheaper than their market rate.
And then slowly grab all competition to form a monopoly. This is harder to do today because of Europe and other antitrust regulations but still good enough strategy to make you a billionaire.
A tool to Get Detailed Insights for On-Page SEO
Detailed SEO extension by Glen Allsopp is a great way to check On-Page SEO with a click of a button.
One recommended video on Solving System Business Problems & Creating Systems
This video is unlisted on YouTube so you need a link to the video to actually find it.
It is a masterclass on building systems for an agency and solving problems that arise within even when you don't have all the answers. Trust me on this one, its gold.
Top Tweets of the day
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Spoofing (changing caller ID) takes less than a minute and can be done using apps available on the App Store.
Here we see Mark Cuban talking about getting tricked through a phone scam where the attacker spoofed a Google number (Google assistant) and took over his Gmail account🧵— Rachel Tobac (@RachelTobac)
12:06 PM • Jun 23, 2024
Expect call spoofing to happen a lot more in the wild in 2024-2025. Forward this to your loved ones so they can protect themselves from getting scammed. Highly recommend listening to this podcast by Rachel Tobac on Darknet Diaries.
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If you conduct interviews for software engineering, talk to a college student.
Was told by a top uni grad that most of his class used tricks like 2nd monitors where friends prompt LLMs to cheat. Most have $200k jobs.
If you think the process "works", you're lying to yourself.
— Deedy (@deedydas)
5:30 PM • Jun 27, 2024
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Rabbit Holes
SEO Experiments From the Google Algorithm Leak - ELI5 Explanation from Google's Algorithm Leak.
Spam Traps Growing Like Wildfire! - The easier something becomes, the harder it is to succeed in it. If creating videos becomes easier thanks to TikTok's CapCut, then winning on TikTok becomes much harder. The same is true for Cold Emails. It has become hell of a lot easier to send Cold Emails now and that's why the Spam Gods at Gmail & Outlook are working harder to catch spam from reaching inbox. Harder to enter an industry can be a competitive advantage in the long run.
How Derek Sivers Rejected Me And Made Me A Fan - There comes a time in a person's life that they have to say No to many obligations. The most successful ones have to say No to 1000 opportunities to work on the one that changes their life. You have to be willing to enter The Season Of NO to focus on the thing that matters most.
Until next time,
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