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There is a game that people are playing more than ever before. Find out which game that is later in this email.
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āļø The Business of Chess Is Booming
The Netflix show āThe Queenās Gambitā (October 2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic added jet fuel to online chess.
But Chess.com has been on a wild trajectory even without those factors. The founders bought the domain for more than $50,000 in 2005, subverting their original plan to provide a forum when gameplay proved mind-blowingly popular.
According to Similarweb data as researched by Sherwood News, Chess.com got 188 million visits in April 2024. Thatās up ~300% from April 2019. Not a bad five-year growth rate.
About 35 million chess games a day take place on Chess.com. The site reportedly does more than $100 million in annual revenue from its 150 million members via a freemium model. And Sherwood speculates that revenue figure could be conservative.
As a game, itās certainly no longer limited to ānerdsā and geniuses.
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š Stat of the Day
š 46,561: The number of surplus Teslas last quarter. The biggest U.S. producer of electric vehicles made 433,371 Teslas last quarter but delivered just 386,810. Thatās the companyās biggest single-quarter surplus ever. It has led to some telling satellite images of the parking lot outside of Teslaās Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.
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šļø Podcast
Clark loves exercise. In fact, he wears three fitness trackers because he enjoys learning and improving his health so much! Data shows that people who are active for 150 minutes/week have less than half the cost of healthcare than sedentary people. Clark re-introduces his One-Minute Challenge to help you take the next step towards an active lifestyle. If you want to increase your physical fitness, it will impact your fiscal fitness, too! Also, the housing market has been crazy over the last few years. But weāre slowly starting to see more inventory growth and price reductions. Clark explains what heās seeing in the housing market ā and the state thatās seeing the highest inventory jump!
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