Muazz Shaail used AI to deliver $250 YouTube thumbnails
Qatar-based thumbnail designer Muazz Shaail used Photoshop's Generative Fill for over 70% of a commission while keeping human editing and charging $250.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDFundav's prison game workshops turned four computers into a path to work
Fundav won permission to teach game development in Argentina's prisons; workshops reached three units and released games despite bureaucracy and low literacy.
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MGM and New Line revived a 'Reagan-era relic' franchise by handing Rocky to Apollo's son; Creed earned $42.6M over five days on a $37M budget.
Read the caseBatelco became Beyon: Bahrain's telecom incumbent rebuilt itself as a digital group
Bahrain's Batelco spun out independent digital companies from 2021, regrouped under the Beyon brand and now earns 56% of revenue outside its home market.
Read the caseCMC: India sold 51% of its pioneering IT firm to Tata for Rs 152 crore in 2001
The Vajpayee government's 2001 strategic sale of CMC to Tata Sons — the last bidder standing — turned India's first state IT champion into part of TCS.
Read the caseSantiago Maratea turned influencer outrage into a fundraising model
After a $2.1M medical fundraiser exposed anger at the state, Santiago Maratea recast his audience as a repeatable social-fundraising engine.
Read the caseGovTech Singapore used short fellowships to bring Silicon Valley talent back and keep some
As global tech firms poached civil servants, Singapore used short fellowships and mission-led work to bring technical talent back; some stayed long term.
Read the caseCitizen relaunched Accutron in 2020 with the first electrostatic-powered watches
Bulova's Accutron, the 1960 tuning-fork pioneer, returned in 2020 under Citizen with the world's first electrostatic-energy watch movement.
Read the caseEricsson gave up making phones itself to survive the telecom crash
Carrier spending collapsed after the dot-com bust and Ericsson posted its first annual loss ever. It merged its handset unit into a joint venture with Sony.
Read the caseFirst Pacific bought PLDT for $750M in the 1998 crisis firesale and turned it around
First Pacific bought control of Philippine Long Distance Telephone in the 1998 crisis; by 2004 PLDT's half-year profit had soared to 12 billion pesos.
Read the caseZanjani family moved its astrology practice to YouTube and reached 650,000 subscribers
Facing economic anxiety and religious criticism, Syed Muhammad Ali Zanjani took his family astrology practice digital and turned YouTube into a client funnel.
Read the caseZindi turned African AI theory into hackathons and jobs
Zindi answered outdated AI curricula with hackathons and employer matching; nearly 73,000 data scientists used it and over 100 engineers found jobs.
Read the caseNintendo revived the 1980 Game & Watch as a Mario collectible and it sold out overnight
Nintendo relaunched its 1980 Game & Watch handheld for Mario's 35th anniversary; online orders closed within a day and the limited run sold out.
Read the caseLionsgate fought off Carl Icahn at the 2009 lows and rode Hunger Games to the majors
Besieged by Icahn with shares in single digits, Lionsgate diluted him with a debt swap, bought Summit and launched Hunger Games — a $152.5M opening weekend.
Read the caseThree Hotze brothers took over CECO as it faced foreclosure and won Turnaround of the Year
When the family compressor firm was days from bankruptcy, three brothers stepped in, refinanced the debt and saved 400 jobs.
Read the caseAAPI Victory Alliance cut multilingual campaign drafting from 45 to 15 minutes
With a $20,000 grant, AAPI Victory Alliance used ChatGPT and Claude to test six-language campaign messages; AI drafts matched humans 52% of the time.
Read the caseAWIP turned a product-management community into a recruiting network
AWIP built a recruiter-and-mentor ecosystem around product management, reaching 3,000+ members and helping women land roles at major tech companies.
Read the caseLogitech ended a two-and-a-half-year sales slump with a return to growth
After the pandemic work-from-home boom deflated, Logitech cut costs and refocused, returning to growth with record Q4 profits.
Read the caseGuangzhou Auto reborn from Peugeot's one-franc exit into Honda's equal JV partner
The city's car plant died with thousands of unsold Peugeots; regrouped as GAGC, it took Honda in at 50:50 in 1998 and built China's model joint venture.
Read the caseRomania floated 15% of gas producer Romgaz in 2013, its biggest Bucharest listing
The state sold 15% of Romgaz on the Bucharest exchange and London, raising up to €416m; first-day buyers gained 13-26%.
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