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Jun 23
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🏄 “It’s The New Golf” — Surfing’s wave ...

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The hot new real estate trend is giant surf parks… Wave Pools borrowed the biz model of golf.

117 emails per day? Interruptions every 2 minutes?... Microsoft data reveals your “Infinite Workday.”

Disney just hooked up with Amazon on advertising… and TV ads are about to look like Instagram.

Plus, Jeff Bezos is getting married this week… and we found his leaked wedding vows.


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