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Newsletter · By Polina Pompliano · English · Paid tier available · Official site

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    The Profile: Uber’s founder staging a comeback & the superagent who told Taylor Swift ‘no’ (opens the original)

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    Good morning, friends!My twin boys turned 1 year old on Friday. I normally don’t share anything ultra-personal in this newsletter, but I felt compelled to write about this wild experience. Here goes:The Best and Worst Day of My LifeIt has taken me a year to write about the best and worst day of my life. I’ve tried several times before, but I would get a few paragraphs in, feel my heart start racing, and shut my laptop.Let’s try this again.When I got a positive pregnancy test last February, m

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    The Best and Worst Day of My Life (opens the original)

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    It has taken me a year to write about the best and worst day of my life. I’ve tried several times before, but I would get a few paragraphs in, feel my heart start racing, and shut my laptop.Let’s try this again.When I got a positive pregnancy test last February, my husband and I were ecstatic. We were about to have a third child. A few days later, we went to the doctor expecting the routine excitement of hearing a heartbeat for the first time. Instead, we discovered I was pregnant with identical

  3. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    The Profile: The founder with all the power in the world & the 24-year-old exposing fraud in America (opens the original)

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    Good morning, friends!One of my favorite parts of building The Profile has been meeting the fascinating people who read it.A friend and I have started hosting small-format dinners in New York City. The idea is to bring together a small group of founders, investors, creators, writers, reporters, operators, and other curious & ambitious people who probably wouldn’t otherwise end up around the same dinner table.If you’re based in NYC and would like to join us for a future dinner, leave your informa

  4. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    The Profile: The actor portraying Mark Zuckerberg & the NFL’s most cryptic quarterback (opens the original)

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    Good morning, friends!Every Sept. 11, I share Colson Whitehead’s article, Lost and Found, which was published two months after the Twin Tower attacks.The article is a moving tribute to New York City and the Twin Towers, but it’s also about how our identities are shaped by our own, personalized memories of the places we live.“There are eight million naked cities in this naked city — they dispute and disagree,” he writes. “The New York City you live in is not my New York

  5. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    The Profile: Apple’s new CEO & The financier who wants to save America (opens the original)

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    Good morning, friends!A few years ago, I spent a month studying the best interviewers in the world — Oprah, Larry King, Barbara Walters, Tim Ferriss, Ira Glass, Howard Stern, Brandon Stanton.I then put together my learnings into an article titled: “10 Interview Techniques From the World’s Best Interviewers.” That piece has opened doors and gotten me opportunities simply because I decided to publish a mini-masterclass on the one thing I genuinely enjoy doing.The tools in it work for journalistic

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