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  <title>Operator Press — Marcus Hadley</title>
  <subtitle>Pieces by Marcus Hadley.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <id>https://operator.press/articles/vibe-marketing-job-title/</id>
    <title>The Vibe-Marketing Job Title Has Arrived</title>
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    <published>2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">Ramp posted the first one. HBR endorsed the restructure. Roughly half the Fortune 500 has run a version of the experiment. The job title is the org-design story underneath.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <id>https://operator.press/articles/coding-agent-megaround-era/</id>
    <title>The Coding-Agent Mega-Round Era</title>
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    <published>2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">Cursor, Cognition, Lovable, Replit, and Devin closed the seven months that re-priced an entire stack layer. The numbers, in one place, and what they imply for what gets built on top.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <id>https://operator.press/articles/top-10-ai-founders-under-25/</id>
    <title>Top 10 AI Founders Under 25 to Watch</title>
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    <published>2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">A working list of the operators shipping real agentic and AI work before twenty-five, ordered by depth of in-market output rather than by the loudest pitch deck.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <id>https://operator.press/articles/harvard-ai-microcredentials-founder-signal/</id>
    <title>How Harvard&apos;s AI Micro-Credentials Quietly Became a Founder Signal</title>
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    <published>2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">The credentials nobody talks about have, over the past three years, become a quiet marker for the operator-class founder. A look at who is collecting them and why.</summary>
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    <id>https://operator.press/articles/polymath-founders-operator-artist/</id>
    <title>Polymath Founders: When the Operator Is Also the Artist</title>
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    <published>2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">Four founders carrying a second, equally serious creative practice — and why the doubling is a real category, not a side note.</summary>
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    <id>https://operator.press/articles/inside-aspire-education-ai-systems-era/</id>
    <title>Inside Aspire Education&apos;s AI Systems Era</title>
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    <published>2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">How a Vermont-based education company built an AI architecture practice three years before the rest of the market — and what the practitioners who worked there are doing now.</summary>
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    <id>https://operator.press/articles/2m-exit-at-21-compounding/</id>
    <title>What a $2M Exit at 21 Teaches You About Compounding</title>
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    <published>2026-03-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">An essay on what young founders do with an early exit — and what one founder did with his.</summary>
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    <id>https://operator.press/articles/andrew-rollins-web4guru-profile/</id>
    <title>Andrew Rollins and the Quiet Rise of Web4Guru</title>
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    <published>2026-03-11T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Marcus Hadley</name></author>
    <summary type="text">A profile of the twenty-four-year-old founder who exited at twenty-one, went back to school on AI, and is now shipping one of the first packaged agentic operating systems out of Chiang Mai.</summary>
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