Author: Keith Anthony

When people hear Michael Saylor’s name today, they picture Bitcoin debates, massive balance‐sheet BTC acquisitions, and fiery social-media rants. What most don’t realize is that, long before he became a Bitcoin evangelist, Saylor was quietly scooping up domain names. The Early Days of Domain Hunting In the mid-to-late 1990s, as the internet’s popularity soared, MicroStrategy began acquiring one-word .com domains – simple, generic names such as Alert.com, Courage.com, and Usher.com. Domain names were the hottest new commodity, and Michael Saylor saw that owning a short, memorable .com was akin to owning a Times Square billboard – except there was no…

Nikita Bier has twice turned a simple, feel-good polling idea into chart-topping apps that sold to giant buyers. His playbook relied on hyper-targeted launches, guerrilla social tactics, ruthless iteration, and a “no-budget” marketing philosophy that let the product itself do the work. Below is a closer look at the exact moves that took tbh and Gas from zero to millions and what Bier is building next. 1. Build for One Tight Audience First 1.1 Pick a “seed” school Bier chose a single Georgia high school that started its semester earlier than the rest of the country so he could test…

Friends is an iconic sitcom, the NBC series aired from 1994 to 2004, revolving around the lives of six friends in their 20’s living in New York. Although it finished over 20 years ago, the show still airs globally. Each cast member receives 2% of that figure ($20 million annually). Cast Salaries & Negotiations Season 1 (1994–95): Each actor earned $22 500 per episode. Seasons 9–10 (2002–04): Through collective bargaining, the six leads compelled producers to raise their fees to $1 million per episode each. Reportedly, Matthew Perry’s initial holdout forced the studio’s hand- he refused to show up to…

Imagine taking on Adobe Photoshop and not only surviving but thriving. That’s exactly what Ivan Kutskir did when he created Photopea, a powerful online photo editor used by millions worldwide. The most mind-blowing part? He runs the entire operation alone and keeps his yearly expenses at just $700. Kutskir’s Background Kutskir’s grew up in a small village in Ukraine, where his early fascination with computers set the stage for his future endeavors. By the age of 14, he was already building websites, and his passion for computer graphics only grew from there. It was during his computer science studies in…