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#SOTD 54: A host story from the Airbnb Shareholder letter
May 12, 2022
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#SOTD 53: Clear messages in Airbnb’s shareholder letter
May 11, 2022
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#SOTD 52: A Mother’s Day ad goes viral
May 10, 2022
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#SOTD 50: Startups get social acceptance through Shark Tank!
April 22, 2022
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#SOTD 47: A gripping search-and-rescue story
April 19, 2022
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#SOTD 42: Using contrast and an analogy to combat fear of DALL-E 2
April 12, 2022
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#SOTD 40: The funniest writer in finance
April 8, 2022
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#SOTD 38: Starting with a personal story
April 6, 2022
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#SOTD 35: A key pattern-finding idea; and a cheeky callback
April 1, 2022
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#SOTD 32: A picture worth a million words
March 29, 2022
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