WiFi Money News Roundup: December 2025

Links from around the web

News you should be paying attention to

• YouTube has added new indicator for AI-generated videos - from Reddit. In the long run it’s inevitable that social media sites will label and eventually downrank (or even ban) AI-generated images and videos. I also think AI slop will be auto-blocked at the browser level (similar to popups). Building your brand on slop isn’t a valid long-term strategy.

• These VCs’ Winning Investment Strategy: Finding Founders With Childhood Trauma - from Forbes. This is actually a brilliant idea and I predict it’ll be very successful. People who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and get legacy admissions to Yale seem constitutionally incapable of Building. It’s obvious yet unintuitive. You need some darkness within you to propel you forward. If everything in your life is easy and always has been…where will you get the motivation?

• America’s fight back against China starts in Los Angeles—in flip-flops - from The Economist. A glimpse at a whole ‘nother world full of entrepreneurs who are living in a completely different mental universe from us WiFi Money bros. I like reading stuff like this. It makes me feel less myopic. The world is a big place. There are tons of different little universes that people are living in with their own personality archetypes, values, and worldviews.

• How Much Do You Really Want to Know About Your Habits? - from The New York Times. Posting Spotify Wrapped and other weird “year in review” graphics are just part of life on social media in 2025. Nostalgia + Narcissism + Data = powerful force that compels people to provide free advertising for the apps they use.

• TikTok Owner ByteDance on Track for $50 Billion Profit in 2025 - from Bloomberg. Brainrot is big business. Anyone who goes outside anywhere can see the effects it’s having on genpop. There’s no reason to think the trend will reverse itself anytime soon.

Quote of the month

“The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Approved tools and products

• Shopify - The easiest e-com solution. Makes setting up an online store very easy. It just works.

• Empire Flippers - When it’s time to sell your biz, this is the place to do it. They have a large pool of buyers with deep pockets who are always looking for another business to acquire (possibly yours?).

• Kinsta - Best customer service of any hosting provider I’ve ever tried. They actually respond to all customer service requests and provide helpful responses (no matter how stupid your question is).

• Namecheap - Good place to buy domains to add to your collection (we all have one).

• Trezor - Most secure crypto hardware wallet. You aren’t keeping your coins on exchanges…right?

• Wise - Easiest way to send money internationally (paying contractors, etc.).

From the archive

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