August 13, 2025 Freelance Opportunities!

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Kaitlyn Arford
August 13, 2025

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Learn from this investor’s $100m mistake

In 2010, a Grammy-winning artist passed on investing $200K in an emerging real estate disruptor. That stake could be worth $100+ million today.

One year later, another real estate disruptor, Zillow, went public. This time, everyday investors had regrets, missing pre-IPO gains.

Now, a new real estate innovator, Pacaso – founded by a former Zillow exec – is disrupting a $1.3T market. And unlike the others, you can invest in Pacaso as a private company.

Pacaso’s co-ownership model has generated $1B+ in luxury home sales and service fees, earned $110M+ in gross profits to date, and received backing from the same VCs behind Uber, Venmo, and eBay. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

Paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals.

Hey! A few notes:

  • Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com is collecting information on how AI has affected the writing profession, including journalists, copywriters, speechwriters, ghostwriters, and technical writers. I think we’re all curious about what AI means for freelancers, so please take 5 minutes today to share your thoughts! Submit your responses by September 4 to be entered to win prizes. (If we get more than 150 responses, we can get to collab on a cool webinar for ya’ll. Please do it!)

  • I’m speaking in two sessions with the National Press Club Journalism Institute about the state of freelancing right now and how to start freelancing. There’s tracks for new and experienced freelancers and I know you’ll benefit from this. If you can’t join us live on Friday, you can view the recordings later!

  • I’m chatting with the marvelous Tim Herrera about using social media to find clients. These are always super fun and conversational. Join us!

  • Tim’s also teaching you about how to put a pitch together tomorrow. I’ve taken this workshop and benefited from it!

— Kaitlyn

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