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Danny Groner

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Director of Growth PR, Forecast Labs, an investment group. We help you grow your consumer-facing business more affordably. I write about careers, community, and care in my newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: http://dannygroner.substack.com.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · Jun 25

An essay I worked hard on was published today. I hope you read it. memoirland.substack.com/p/buckeye-an...

Buckeye and Me

Danny Groner has feelings…about the death of his therapist’s dog.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1h

There aren't a lot of people in my industry who I think are legitimately bad to bring on at a growing startup, but when I see a company I've heard of hire one of those select people, I take note.

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 1h

Family offices still bet on AI and health care even as deals slow down
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Family offices still bet on AI and health care even as deals slow down

Investment firms of the ultra-rich made 46% fewer direct investments in September compared with the same period last year, according to Fintrx.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 2h

For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...

I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 3h

Keep Hispanic consumers engaged—why pulling back now costs more later

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Keep Hispanic consumers engaged—why pulling back now costs more later

Despite slower spending, sustained and culturally fluent engagement builds Hispanic loyalty. Here’s why staying present now matters—and what works.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 3h

"A dirty secret about pageants is that behind the smiles and the ogling, a great part of their fuel is female ambition. Long before “American Idol” and its ilk, pageants were a means for a small-town striver to vault herself into a bigger world." www.wsj.com/politics/the...

The Beauty Queens of MAGA World

From cabinet secretaries to state legislators, many women in today’s GOP have one thing in common: they got their start in public life by winning pageants.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3h

Really struck by how brilliant a protesting tactic this is not just in terms of optics, but as a form of both privacy protection and discouragement of violence.

It masks your face and has to give pause to anyone thinking about beating you up.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 15h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 3h

"People have been talking about impending ‘The Great Wealth Transfer’, but really, it’s something that is already upon us. There are 100T+ in assets being passed down from older generations to Millennials and Gen Z, two generations who are truly digitally native and want a more modern brokerage."

CMO Corner: “People always say that between speed, quality, and price, you can’t have all three, you can only pick two. My goal is to break that idea,” ft. Public’s Zach Dioneda - Tearsheet

While other investing platforms use gamification, Public is taking a different approach.

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 3h

Inc is hiring a senior editor to help us steer our Premium vertical, which is home to all of our deep, thoughtful and incisive original reporting. Pays up to $120k starting. Come work with me!

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Senior Editor @Inc.

Mansueto Ventures LLC - Senior Editor @Inc. - New York, NY

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 3h

CMOs share what brands get wrong when marketing to Gen Z
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CMOs share what brands get wrong when marketing to Gen Z

The group’s perceived aversion to advertising and lack of brand loyalty are more myth than fact, panelists argued at Advertising Week.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 4h

Good podcast interview.

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 4h

It's worthwhile to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal.

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 4h

"Some of Chicago Costume’s 35 employees also got busy sewing fabric scraps and foam material into imitations of the miter headdresses worn by high-ranking Catholic clergy. Paired with a robe, the headwear would let someone dress up as Pope Leo, a Chicago native." apnews.com/article/hall...

How a family-owned costume shop is keeping tariffs from making Halloween a nightmare

A family that runs two costume stores in Chicago is putting a creative twist on Halloween this year due to tariffs on Chinese imports.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 5h

Is he going to renege on peace now that he didn't get his prize for it?

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Some gamblers are placing WNBA bets based on when they think players are on their periods—and advising their followers to do the same. One content creator calls it "blood money." But the strategy is both unscientific and sexist. From @mollylongman.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 5h

"His jeans have also earned Kennedy a measure of respect among some gym-goers, who look past practical considerations like movement and admire the message his attire sends."

Another Controversial Stance From RFK Jr: Working Out in Jeans

The health secretary’s gym habit is a source of curiosity and bewilderment in the fitness world.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 5h

Wade is 6'4"

NBA @nba.com · 6h

NBA Legends showing out for the 2025 NBA China Games 🤩

Shaq x Yao x Vince x Wade

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Talking Biz News @talkingbiznews.bsky.social · 6h

@msnbc.com won a Loeb Award in the audio category: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/b...

Bloomberg, WSJ, NY Times among Loeb winners - Talking Biz News

The following is a list of the journalists and media outlets that received 2025 Gerald Loeb Awards in the 12 competition categories. The awards were announced Thursday night at a dinner in New York: A...

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 6h

"If I was buying gifts for my friends, I would either buy a really bad dupe or a really good dupe. You can't go in between," she said. "If it's a bad one, then it's just funny. If it's a really good one, then me and you know, but who else knows?"

Betty Lin-Fisher @blinfisher.bsky.social · 6h

Why do Gen Z shoppers love their dupes? Read my @usatoday.com story: www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 6h

"Because executives are under pressure from their boards and shareholders, many have been forced to move fast without thinking deliberately about how workflows should be redesigned to boost productivity, or how to compensate for places where automation hurts entry-level employees."

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

And yet I saw virtually *no one* ask that question. Everyone, from normies to seasoned political commentators, was just like "oh I guess I have to have an opinion on this now." Why? Who said so?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 7h

"I am not on Instagram or TikTok, but most of the people I know and love are on one or both. My beef is not with the entire medium of moving images. My concern is what happens when the grammar of television rather suddenly conquers the entire media landscape."

Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 7h

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

www.derekthompson.org

Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 7h

I enjoy listening to High Holy Day sermons on YouTube.