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Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
Moleskine's borrowed heritage

Sep 8, 2026

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6 min read

Moleskine's borrowed heritage

Moleskine claimed a lineage it never lived, and spent three decades earning it.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
The Denim Wars, 1 year later

Sep 1, 2026

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6 min read

The Denim Wars, 1 year later

The real winner was hiding in plain sight all along.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
Ramp's best marketer is an economist

Aug 25, 2026

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5 min read

Ramp's best marketer is an economist

The glass box stunt bought a spike of attention. The content engine is still paying off years later.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
Talk like you mean it

Aug 18, 2026

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9 min read

Talk like you mean it

How to build a brand voice people actually remember and trust.

Isaac Peiris
Bill Kerr
Isaac Peiris, +1
How Notion made AI cute

Aug 11, 2026

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6 min read

How Notion made AI cute

Seemingly the only platform to not represent AI features with sparkles.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
Intel’s sticker marketing

Aug 4, 2026

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5 min read

Intel’s sticker marketing

Intel lost a trademark, then built a campaign that took pricing power off the entire PC industry.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Community & Advocacy

How Wikipedia builds trust

Jul 28, 2026

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6 min read

How Wikipedia builds trust

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has 7 rules for building trust. They explain why it's the one asset you can't build.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
You can't start a community

Jul 22, 2026

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5 min read

You can't start a community

Walmart had 100 million shoppers and couldn't fill a room.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Community & Advocacy

Ultraspeaking's $0 growth engine

Jul 14, 2026

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7 min read

Ultraspeaking's $0 growth engine

The biggest creators promote them for free. Here's why.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

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The trust economy

Jul 7, 2026

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10 min read

The trust economy

Nobody's moat is their product anymore. Here's what took its place.

Isaac Peiris
Bill Kerr
Isaac Peiris, +1

Content & Media

The creator economy’s next decade

Jul 1, 2026

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8 min read

The creator economy’s next decade

You spent a decade renting your audience. The next one belongs to whoever owns it.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

AI & Marketing

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The most tested brand in AI

Jun 23, 2026

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6 min read

The most tested brand in AI

Every AI brand promises safety. One of them keeps getting the bill.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Brand Strategy

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How ACMI appeals to everyone

Jun 16, 2026

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6 min read

How ACMI appeals to everyone

The case for holding your brand still while everything around it moves.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

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Why Clay gave its brand away

Jun 9, 2026

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6 min read

Why Clay gave its brand away

Clay built founder brand, then gave it away and grew a customer identity in its place.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

The evolution of media

Jun 2, 2026

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7 min read

The evolution of media

From Gutenberg to Google AI Overviews, the only moat left turned out to be the one thing you can't copy.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

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1,000 true fans

May 26, 2026

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6 min read

1,000 true fans

The most powerful and misunderstood marketing concept.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Creative & Campaigns

The earned-first playbook

May 19, 2026

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5 min read

The earned-first playbook

Three Cannes winners succeeded before their ads even ran.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

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a16z’s new media playbook

May 12, 2026

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5 min read

a16z’s new media playbook

Most companies treat media as a comms function. a16z built it as infrastructure. The difference is a compounding audience.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

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Duolingo re-hinged

May 5, 2026

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6 min read

Duolingo re-hinged

The strategy collapsed months before the CMO announced it was changing.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Content & Media

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Every company is now in the entertainment industry

Apr 28, 2026

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5 min read

Every company is now in the entertainment industry

While everyone else focuses on clicks, the brands actually growing have accepted a different job description.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

AI & Marketing

Why your AI sounds like everyone else's

Apr 21, 2026

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6 min read

Why your AI sounds like everyone else's

The models you use every day were built to sound like everything else, including your competitors. Here's what's happening inside them.

Isaac Peiris
Bill Kerr
Isaac Peiris, +1

Brand Strategy

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Starbucks bet $150m on offline experiences

Apr 14, 2026

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11 min read

Starbucks bet $150m on offline experiences

While the rest of the world gets lost in AI hype, they’re doubling down on in-store experience.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

AI & Marketing

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OpenAI just bought a voice it hasn't earned

Apr 7, 2026

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14 min read

OpenAI just bought a voice it hasn't earned

What a 9-figure podcast acquisition reveals about owned media, broken promises, and the trust you can't purchase.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Creative & Campaigns

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How Airtable closed the enterprise gap

Mar 24, 2026

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13 min read

How Airtable closed the enterprise gap

Enterprise customers kept ignoring them. Here's what Airtable did about it.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris

Brand Strategy

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WTF is GTM?

Mar 17, 2026

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17 min read

WTF is GTM?

Here's what three people actually doing it had to say.

Isaac Peiris
Isaac Peiris
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