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👋 Welcome to Week 29, Elite Edge Fam!
🔥 Truths. 🛠 Tools. 🧠 Tactics.
The Unwritten Rules of Power, Promotion & Playing the Long Game
Here’s your next round of corporate truths they don’t put in the onboarding manual.
These are the unfiltered realities about navigating power, perception, and promotion in the workplace—so you can play smarter, lead stronger, and stay ahead of the game.
💥 Corporate Confessions of the Week:
Annual reviews? Mostly theater.
The real decisions—promotions, raises, pivots—are made way before that meeting. Stay proactive, not reactive.Over-communication = career insurance.
Be loud. Be clear. Be seen. Because if you don’t tell your story, someone else will—and they won’t get it right.Your org chart isn’t the finish line.
Your external brand is where the real influence lives. Speak, post, share—be known beyond your title.Being liked? Cute.
Being trusted? That’s power. Influence lives where respect is earned—not where approval is chased.Playing it safe is the riskiest move.
Perfection is a trap. Be strategic, but don’t let fear shrink your potential.Understand your leaders' incentives.
Promotions are political. Learn the game behind the game.Yes, your coworkers are also your competition.
It’s not personal—it’s structural. Protect your goals and stay sharp.Leadership gets lonelier the higher you go.
More politics. Fewer allies. Build your support system outside the company—you’ll need it.They’ll cheer for innovation—until it threatens the status quo.
Disrupt strategically. Timing is everything.How you leave matters.
Your exit is part of your legacy. Leave with grace, burn bridges wisely—your reputation moves faster than your résumé.
🗽 NYC, You’re Up!🤝🏼
I’m hosting a live “hot seat” coaching pop-up this Monday, April 7 in Grand Central — near the clock — at 12pm EST! Come say hi. Bring your career questions. Leave with strategy.
📚What I Read This Week…
📖 Bloomberg’s 2025 AI Billionaires List — a fascinating look at who's cashing in on the next tech wave.
🤑 AI Just Minted a New Billionaire Class
The AI boom isn’t just about innovation — it’s about unprecedented, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it wealth creation. Bloomberg reports that 29 AI founders now control a collective $71 billion in equity across a handful of breakout startups like OpenAI, Anthropic, CoreWeave, Figure AI, and Perplexity.
⚡ OpenAI is nearing a $300B valuation.
💬 Anthropic, the Claude chatbot maker, just raised at a $61.5B valuation.
🦾 Figure AI’s humanoid robot vision has made Brett Adcock’s stake worth $16.6B.
💻 CoreWeave, once a crypto miner, IPO’d with a $23B valuation by renting out GPU power to LLM builders.
🔬 Even stealthy newcomers like Thinking Machines Lab are gunning for $9B valuations without a product.
What’s wild? Most of this fortune is on paper, in pre-revenue or pre-product companies — but the velocity of wealth creation in AI is unlike any boom Silicon Valley has ever seen.
Big takeaway: AI isn’t just reshaping tech — it’s rewriting the billionaire playbook.
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🎙️What I Listened to This Week… (Podcasts)
i✨ Inspo for your “creator” side hustle 💡📱🎥
🎧 All-In Podcast — Deep dives on the economy, tech, and AI. This episode of the All-In podcast revolves around the evolving media landscape and monetization strategies for creators. The discussion highlights how platforms like YouTube TV enable creator businesses with revenue from ads and subscriptions. It also examines the potential of interactive AI-driven media and the challenges of balancing creative vision with commercial success.
The conversation delves into ways for creators to build dedicated fanbases, diversify revenue streams beyond ads, and leverage emerging technologies. Additionally, the role of creators in influencing health and wellness trends, as well as the ethics surrounding AI-generated content and the rise of decentralized platforms, are explored.
See you next week,
Deepali Vyas
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