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🗓️ 12 July 2025
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In this “Lessons” episode, Adam Biddlecombe, founder of Mindstream, shares how he transformed a modest $1K investment into a multi-million dollar AI media exit. Learn how his bias for action and focused execution helped him carve out space in a crowded AI content market, why leaning into authenticity and human perspective built long-term trust with readers, and how starting with clear, humble goals allowed his newsletter to scale into a profitable and investor-backed media brand.
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0:45.4 | growth like this, visit HubSpot.com. In this lesson's episode, discover how bias for action |
0:51.3 | and intentionality fueled the rapid rise of a newsletter in a saturated AI content market. |
0:56.9 | Learn why building something meaningful starts with small, consistent wins, |
1:00.4 | understand how differentiating through voice and human touch creates standout content, |
1:04.2 | and explore how humble goals and focused execution turned early traction into a funded media business. |
1:21.6 | Outside of lessons that you learned from like my first million and obviously, you know, Sam built the hustle, Sean built Milk Road, so two great examples there. |
1:26.6 | And I think they speak about them a lot, some strategies, how to grow scale. |
1:31.5 | And I actually think it's a really interesting business model. |
1:34.1 | We can talk about if it's something that can be done almost like predictably as a business |
1:40.0 | model to sort of copy the playbook that they had, that you had, and if you can, you know, |
1:45.4 | someone listening can start one today and build it and exit, I think that's an interesting |
1:49.1 | conversation because they seem to be so confident about it. And I guess you're a living |
1:53.1 | example of listening to some advice and then running with it. But outside of the newsletter |
1:56.9 | advice that you got, what were some of the, because you've gone through sales jobs, |
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