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  1. Simon7b403ef

    feat(web): flatten frontmatter — drop slug, flat tags/cats, auto-bump updatedDate [skip ci]

    diff --git a/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md b/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md
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     title: "The Grecia model: how CDMX runs without the founder"
    -slug: the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder
     pubDate: 2024-12-01T17:00:00.000Z
     updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:41.000Z
     draft: false
     excerpt: "The question that determines whether a brand becomes an institution or stays a personality cult is simple: does it survive without the founder’s daily presence? SLIST Mexico City answered that … Read more"
     categories:
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     tags:
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    -  - { name: growth, slug: growth }
    -  - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships }
    -  - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical }
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    +  - community
    +  - format-case-study
    +  - growth
    +  - partnerships
    +  - tone-philosophical
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  2. Simon8bc867c

    content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/

    diff --git a/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md b/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md
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       alt: "Mexico City skyline at dusk with warm golden and purple lighting"
     legacy_wp_id: 15842
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  3. Simon3c1387f

    fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)

    diff --git a/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md b/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md
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       - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical }
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       alt: "Mexico City skyline at dusk with warm golden and purple lighting"
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  4. Simon5add954

    feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)

    diff --git a/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md b/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md
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     pubDate: 2024-12-01T17:00:00.000Z
     updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:41.000Z
     draft: false
    +excerpt: "The question that determines whether a brand becomes an institution or stays a personality cult is simple: does it survive without the founder’s daily presence? SLIST Mexico City answered that … Read more"
    +categories:
    +  - { name: BTS, slug: bts }
    +tags:
    +  - { name: cdmx, slug: cdmx }
    +  - { name: community, slug: community }
    +  - { name: format-case-study, slug: format-case-study }
    +  - { name: growth, slug: growth }
    +  - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships }
    +  - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical }
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    +  alt: "Mexico City skyline at dusk with warm golden and purple lighting"
     legacy_wp_id: 15842
     ---
     The question that determines whether a brand becomes an institution or stays a personality cult is simple: does it survive without the founder’s daily presence?
    
  5. Simon30e0ee3

    feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist

    diff --git a/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md b/content/posts/2024/the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder/index.md
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    +---
    +title: "The Grecia model: how CDMX runs without the founder"
    +slug: the-grecia-model-how-cdmx-runs-without-the-founder
    +pubDate: 2024-12-01T17:00:00.000Z
    +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:41.000Z
    +draft: false
    +legacy_wp_id: 15842
    +---
    +The question that determines whether a brand becomes an institution or stays a personality cult is simple: does it survive without the founder’s daily presence?
    +
    +SLIST Mexico City answered that question in the second half of 2024. The answer is yes. And the person who proved it is Grecia Zarate.
    +
    +* * *
    +
    +Context matters here. SLIST started in CDMX in mid-2021. Within weeks of arriving as a tourist who could barely speak Spanish, I’d built a flyer-sharing community that mapped most of the dark music scene. Within a year, the community had grown into an 800-person WhatsApp group with its own rave chats, gossip channels, and guest list distribution network. I became the anonymous curator of dark raves for locals and tourists alike — a hands-on guest list management service for the top events in the city.
    +
    +By early 2024, the NYC branch had gained serious momentum. The attention shifted. CDMX operations slowed. The community that had been built from scratch over two years started losing energy without someone actively running it.
    +
    +That is when Grecia sent her proposal.
    +
    +* * *
    +
    +The proposal was straightforward: let me bring the community back. After a one-month trial period, Grecia received full access to the SLIST CDMX social media accounts. Not advisory access. Not contributor access. Full control. The decision to grant that level of trust was informed by every team failure that came before it — the theft, the threats, the people who jumped ship at the first sign of difficulty. Grecia earned it by demonstrating competence during the trial, not by making promises.
    +

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