The 2010s was the decade of the Entrepreneur. The 2020s will be the decade of the Investor.
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📰 At the beginning of the year I turned off all notifications for new subscribers to my Substack.
🫣 I do occasionally login and check the numbers though.
📈 This week I noticed that I’ve got over 1,000 subscribers.
From the above graph you can see that the numbers have grown pretty fast since the beginning of 2024 compared with 2023. I reckon the two things that have made this happen have been:
I’ve been consistently posting my x/52 newsletters.
Some terrific
newsletter writers have recommended mine including , , , and, err, (I might have had something to do with that last one).
So I just wanted to say thank you, I’ll carry on doing my posts and I hope more Substacks will recommend this one.
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