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    <description>Digital systems, digital confidence, and the Soft Life philosophy from CO Olagun.</description>
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      <title>Pat McGrath Labs: The $1B Valuation Wasn&apos;t the Infrastructure</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In 2018, Eurazeo priced Pat McGrath Labs north of $1 billion. In January 2026, the brand filed for Chapter 11. The gap between those two facts is the whole lesson.</description>
      <category>The Blueprint: Founder Autopsy</category>
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      <title>Slutty Vegan: She Was Burning $100K a Week and Didn&apos;t Know It</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Pinky Cole built a $100M brand from a food truck. The Chapter 11 filing wasn&apos;t a talent problem or a vision problem — it was a delegation-without-infrastructure problem.</description>
      <category>The Blueprint: Founder Autopsy</category>
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      <title>Hanifa: The Backend Wasn&apos;t Built for the Front of the Brand</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A record-breaking Black Friday sale should have been the best week of the year. Instead, it became the beginning of the end — not because Anifa Mvuemba failed, but because the infrastructure between demand and delivery was never there.</description>
      <category>The Blueprint: Founder Autopsy</category>
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      <title>Tech Is the Finishing Spray, Not the Whole Routine</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Technology isn&apos;t the goal. Your Soft Life is. Here&apos;s what that actually means when it comes to the tools you use every day — and why the order you use them in matters more than which ones you pick.</description>
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