Dirty Little Secrets of 2025
We’re back after taking a holiday hiatus, kicking it off with a recap of 2025. Not with another Top 10 whatever list, which are out there, ad nauseam, but rather with a recap of those pivotal moments or items of the year that faded from the headlines like, well, yesterday’s news. So what are some of these things you missed or otherwise overlooked?
First, eyeballs matter. In the Web 1 days, startups didn’t have supporting business models, so the ‘New Economy’s’ stock in trade/measure of success was the number of eyeballs you could muster.
Dirty Little Secret: eyeballs still matter, and now they’re everywhere. Just ask Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and CPO Kristin Cabot, “who viva la vida’d a little too hard at a Coldplay and the internet noticed,” says Morning Brew, who singled out the episode as the ‘Viral Moment of the Year.’