A Reddit thread asked a simple question: what's a boring business that quietly makes its owner rich? It got 10,000 upvotes and the answers are worth paying attention to. The boring business funds the
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—Peak velocitythe hottest sustained views/hr it ever hit
—vs. their normalpace relative to this creator's own baseline
—Engagementlikes per view — real engagement is hard to fake
—Agehow early Slope caught this surge