💊 A Rare Human Trait Could Soon Be a Drug
Plus: How Rewording THIS Question Made Someone $85M, Large Companies Crumbling Under a New Force, and More
This week’s market, investing, and business insights from insiders and experts outside the mainstream media:
Thriving on 4-6 hours of sleep thanks to THIS rare mutation.
An absolute legend made ~$85M just by rewording a question.
Large companies are faced with a stark choice… evolve or vanish.
Orange juice is in crises mode right now.
And more. Let’s get to it!
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Top Insights of the Week
1. 💊 A Rare Human Trait Could Soon Be a Drug
Sleep is part of a $1.8T goldmine… All sorts of products and medications out there to help you get more/enhance your sleep. Here’s the thing… what if all along the real answer was just… get less sleep?
Scientists found rare genetic mutations behind Short Sleeper Syndrome (SSS), allowing some people to thrive on just 4–6 hours of sleep.
The genes behind this remarkable discovery…
DEC2: The first short sleep gene discovered in 2009.
ADRB1: A mutation found in 2019 that promotes wakefulness.
NPSR1: Another gene linked to natural short sleep.
They’re all extremely rare, e.g. NPSR1 gene is found in fewer than 1 in 4M people.
Mice engineered with the sleep mutation slept almost an hour less but stayed just as healthy and alert... the University behind this breakthrough... UCSF. And 3 major pharma giants are taking notice...
UCSF and Pfizer have a history of teaming up to fast-track new therapies. Don’t be surprised if they jump all over this.
Sanofi could use SSS research to enhance their product lineup.
Eisai, makers of insomnia meds, could leverage this research for new treatments.
There's a huge opportunity here for whoever runs with this to create a category of one. Not just fix sleep issues… instead… completely sidestep direct competition with a new solution, a “safe sleep-reduction” drug. Sparking a billion-dollar market from nothing.
2.❓How Rewording THIS Question Made Someone $85M
"Who are you voting for?" vs. "Who do you think your neighbor will vote for?" Just asking the latter made someone ~$85M. Who is this someone? Théo, the French whale.
Théo bet ~$70M across 11 Polymarket accounts on Trump’s victory and made ~$85M in profit. Absolute LEGEND.
How did he pull this off?
He paid a polling company to ask swing-state voters the “neighbor effect” question…“Who do you think your neighbor will vote for?”
The results he got back “were mind blowing to the favor of Trump!”
The "neighbor effect" works like this... People may lie about their own choices, but if you ask who their neighbor will vote for, the truth slips out. It's bias-free and reveals their real thoughts.
Mainstream media had a different narrative… “the race is a tossup”… Théo said, PUMP THE BRAKES. He saw the mispriced opportunity and went all in.
But wait… how the hell did they find our boy Théo? One word… Chainalysis… it’s a $10B crypto forensics firm used by governments to trace down crypto wallets.
Over $3B was bet on Polymarket during the election.
As predictive markets and digital currencies rise, crypto forensics will boom...
Coinbase Tracer, used by the ICE and DHS for blockchain forensics.
Elliptic, a crypto tracking firm.
Arkham, focuses on deanonymizing blockchain transactions.
Palantir's tools have helped crack crypto cases for governments.
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4. 🫡 Large Companies Crumbling Under a New Force
“1 person + 10,000 GPUs could make a billion-dollar company”...Sam Altman. He’s not far off. It all comes down to solopreneurs leveraging the HELL out of AI…
Ivan Kutskir literally recreated a multi-billion dollar product 1:1… Photoshop. His version, Photopea, 13M visitors/month, +$1M revenue/year. 0 employees.
Clement Pikilipita created PIKIMOV, free web-based alternative to After Effects, 60k+ visitors/month. 0 employees.
Pieter Levels, makes $2.7M/year, 0 employees, building multiple online platforms.
Tony Dinh, $30K/month, 0 employees, with TypingMind, an enhanced ChatGPT interface.
Those numbers might seem insignificant, but cue the old saying… "death by a thousand paper cuts…" As AI advances, expect more solopreneurs and insanely lean small businesses to come out of the woodwork. Plus, this isn’t new—time and time again, we’ve seen lean small businesses achieve unthinkable results…
WhatsApp, 55 employees, acquired for $19B.
Instagram, 13 employees, acquired for $1B.
Inflection AI, develops personal AI chatbots, $1.5B raised, 33 employees.
Reddit was run by 3 engineers, getting ~1B page views per month.
Large bloated businesses see the writing on the wall…
Google lays off hundreds as ad division switches to AI-powered sales.
Meta used AI to beat Apple’s privacy changes and cut operations costs.
IBM plans to replace 30% of back-office roles with AI.
23andMe cuts 40% of staff in restructuring
Chegg, cuts 21% of staff, as it struggles to compete with AI products.
The list goes on… In 2022, 244K tech workers were laid off. In 2023, it jumped to 430K. So far in 2024, it’s 260K.
The AI tools solopreneurs use today are mind-boggling…
v0 can take a screenshot and clone any website from just a url.
Windsurf lets you build an app with 1 prompt.
Pictory converts scripts or blog posts into videos quickly.
ElevenLabs, lets you create realistic high-quality voice replicas.
YouTube will now auto dub videos.
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Top 3 Charts of the Week
1. 🍊 Americans Are Saying Goodbye to OJ
Tropicana cut its OJ bottles from 52 to 46 ounces. Prices are 5x higher than 2020, and sales dropped 19% last year.
Rising costs, health concerns, and lifestyle changes are turning people away from OJ.
A 12-ounce glass of OJ contains 9 teaspoons of sugar, about the same as a can of Coke.
2. 📈 ByteDance’s Explosive Growth
ByteDance is worth $300B after a buyback, with revenue on track to hit $150B in 2024. No IPO plans yet.
It’s growing fast but undervalued compared to Meta. A U.S. TikTok ban adds uncertainty.
3. 🌎 Google Dominates the Browser Market
The DOJ wants Google to sell Chrome and limit its control over search and data.
Google’s dominance in search (93%) and browser (67%) is under serious threat.
Google pays Apple ~$20B/year to be Safari’s default search engine.
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