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249-year old Birkenstock goes public today with an IPO — And if “The Lindy Effect” applies, Birkenstock will live *another* 249 years. Roku’s new streaming strategy: Buy leftover TV shows — We call it The Moneyball Strategy: find value in things others don’t. And Billionaire Charles Feeney invented the Duty-Free Store — He passed away yesterday, but not before giving away his entire $8B fortune to...

After the surprise attack from Hamas, Israel is responding with punishing economics — It’s escalating its blockade on the Gaza Strip to a siege. The biggest potato company in America? It’s $13B Lamb & Weston, and its potato stock is at an all time high because we’re ordering more fries — Call it the French Fry index: The purest measurement of consumer confidence. And the biggest VC fundraise o...

The Michelin Guide is expanding from restaurants to hotels — This tire company (Michilin) getting into travel guides is one of the great stories of marketing history.  To make AI happen, Meta launched 26 celebrity-based chatbots who look and interact like real people — Zuck paid the celebs millions, proving that AI fortunes favor the huge. And ExxonMobil is reportedly planning its biggest acq...

The #1 trending water bottle right now? It’s not Swell, Nalgene, or Klean Kanteen. It’s Stanley — Stanley sales are up 275% because of one “minnovation”. Ozempic is already being used by a shocking number of people — It’s not just a weight loss drug. It’s changing the entire economy. And you can now buy stock in Shrek (literally the music from the movie Shrek) — It’s financial memorabilia for whic...

FIFA just announced the 2030 World Cup hosts… sorry 6 different countries as co-hosts — Because sports has a Dictator Problem. Airbnb is facing more challenges right now than it ever has – So Airbnb’s going on a Pre-Apology Tour. And Tom Hanks just went on Instagram to warn you: The Tom Hanks video you’re seeing isn’t really him — Artificial Intelligence had its Tom Hanks moment. $ABNB $META Subsc...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial just kicked off with some wild details ($55M for Tom Brady to work 20 hours?) — But we noticed some similarities between geniuses and frauds. You can now watch the entire “Mean Girls” movie… via 23 TikTok posts — It’s a prime example of how we prefer snacking on content. And everyone rips on Millennials for being financially behind previous generations — But Mill...

Toys ‘R’ Us is back with an ambitious expansion plan that they call “land, air, and sea” — Because location isn’t just a physical place, it’s also a mindset. The Nobel Prize was awarded to 2 scientists who invented the mRNA platform — But the surprise winner of the COVID vaccine is UPenn. And the Sphere in Las Vegas just hosted its 1st concert, so the stock popped 15% — This 8th wonder of the worl...

Blue Apron was sold to Wonder for $100M — The problem? That’s 95% lower than the mealkit compay’s peak valuation. We found out why. The S&P 500 fell by 5% in September — We found the quintuple whammy of economic worries that explain it. And luxury car brands are moving from car sales to condo sales — Because the cure for a commodity is a brand. $APRN $SPY $DRPRY $VWAPY $AML Subscribe to our ne...

Ask Nick & Jack (almost) anything  with this form .   The newest and fastest-selling product at Costco? 1 oz gold bars — Because gold is the financial emergency survival kit for money. Microsoft is hiring for a surprising new role — Microsoft needs someone to build its own nuclear power plant.  And Levi’s outgoing CEO has one major regret: He wishes he’d fired *more* people...

Tomorrow is the last day you can order a DVD from Netflix — For 10 years Netflix was just DVDs, then it made a brilliant pivot… by putting the DVD people in another building. Detroit is known for making cars, but now for politics too — Because in 2024, EVs are on the ballot. And ChatGPT is talking to the designer of the iPhone to make a physical thing — Pretty soon, you may be chatting to a “chatp...

The surprise reason Lululemon enjoys consistent 20% growth every quarter? Cause it’s selling to moms and daughters *and* grandmas — Because Lulu prioritizes function over fashion. Amazon was just sued by the FTC and 17 states for running an illegal monopoly — But the biggest challenge to this lawsuit… is the law. Yelp is cracking down on what we’re calling “faux-star reviews” — It’s a fake review...

Hasbro’s Nerf brand was essential to our childhood, so it’s opening its 1st ever Nerf theme park — Because great brands are like a rubberband… they can strettttch. The writers have reached a tentative deal with Hollywood (spoiler: Sources say it’s fantastic for the writers) — Now the other strikers will pull a Meg Ryan and ask “I’ll have what she’s having.” And Spotify just launched a feature that...

Since the writers’ strike began, you’ve been watching reruns (Suits, Seinfeld, and Wheel of Fortune) — the Hollywood Strike has been bad for TV, but great for everything else.  How did Snapchat hit 5M paying subscribers? It’s because Snapchat is like a telephone — and every other social media is like a phonebook. And Deion Sanders just caused one sunglass startup to experience a $5M sales sur...

Elon’s musk’s most secretive startup (Neuralink) is moving to human trials — It’s connecting humans to computers to save the world from robots.  The most influential media mogul of his era, Rupert Murdoch, is retiring from Fox News, News Corp, and more — It’s Succession, but in real life. And Walmart is adding vet clinics to its stores — Because Walmart’s done trying to be like Amazon. $WMT $...

No, you’re not crazy. Songs are getting shorter — Because artists aren’t writing music for fans, they’re writing for Spotify’s algorithm. The Fed thinks interest rates will stay high through the end of 2024 — Which is why renting is the clear winner right now. Dollar General is the biggest retail chain in America with more stores than Walmart and McDonald’s combined — But Dollar General also has t...

Natural Cycles just got FDA approval for hands-free birth control — Simply by wearing an Apple Watch, this app tells you when you’re fertile. Disney is struuuuggling right now, so it’s splurging $60B on its most profitable business: theme parks — We call it “The Mickenomic Stimulus Plan.” And Elon just said he will require all users to pay a small monthly subscription to use X (aka Twitter) — That...

Instacart is the rare tech company IPO’ing with a profit — Because Instacart has pivoted from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue. Twelve years ago, San Francisco gave every Kindergartner a college savings account — It’s not an investment, it’s a manifestement.  And the UAW auto workers strike has 1 big demand: A 40% raise — So we did the math on whether a 40% raise is reasonable or not. $CART $...

The unspoken trend in Millennial weddings right now? Prenups — The prenuptial agreement has gone from taboo topic to financial fun. Jets QB Aaron Rodgers is out for the season… thanks to artificial turf — So we’re looking at why NFL owners are in love with fake grass. And Salesforce has a new strategy: Boomerangs — The software company is re-hiring 3,000 people… who they already fired.  $CRM...

Take the weekly news quiz:  Go.tboypod.com Subscribe to the daily newsletter:  tboypod.com/newsletter - MGM has been hacked so badly that the hotel keys cards don’t work — We think the solution to ransomware attacks is “The Liam Neeson Doctrine.” - The biggest IPO on Wall Street in 2 years is Arm computer chips — The stock surged 25% to a $60B valuation because its computer chips are the...

Code in Uber’s app reveals their secret next product: Uber Chores — It’s Uber’s chance to respect thy elders.  The union repping 146K autoworkers goes on strike tonight — It’s GM, Ford, and Chysler, but Tesla’s the elephant in the room.  And Coca-Cola just unveiled the first ever soda formulated by Artificial Intelligence — And we found a connection between AI soda, Goldfish Crackers, an...

Apple unveiled the new iPhone 15 — But the real story isn’t the phone, it’s the beginning of the end of dongles. Beyonce asked all her fans to wear silver to her concerts — And that surprisingly boosted one business: Etsy. And there’s a strange phenomenon in the workplace when you get promoted: You proceed to quit — We call it “The Promotion Paradox.” $ETSY $AAPL $GOOG Subscribe to our newsletter:...

Walter Isaacson’s biography on Elon Musk arrives today, so we jumped in for you — And we found the common ingredient among geniuses like Elon, Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Steve Jobs: Curiosity. Twinkies’ parent Hostess is being acquired for $5.6B by Smuckers — Because the most important meal for Wall Street is snacks. A once every 25 years antitrust megatrial begins today against Google — But...

Chobani, the yogurt co, just hired a writer… with a $300K salary — The internet thought that pay was outrageous, we’ll tell you why it’s not. Adidas earnings had a hole blown out by Kanye’s Yeezy debacle — Adidas' solution is the Samba (it’s not jus a shoe, it’s a lifestyle). And a top-performing stock this year? It’s Carvana, up 1,000% since May — Because Wall Street believes in forgiveness. $CVN...

Apple stock just lost $210B in value in just 2 days — Because China found an iPhone replacement. Ikea just confirmed that their loopy maze-like store layout is both loved and lucrative — And there’s a psychological reason why. And SkinnyDipped just raised capital from a dozen celebs for its chocolate-covered snacks — Because they’re doing nothing innovative (and that’s exactly the point). $AAPL $T...

Diamond prices have plummeted by 40% this year — Because there’s a 30% chance your engagement ring was grown in a lab. YouTube is going through an existential crisis right now as YouTube Shorts surges — Gen Z YouTube is killing Millennial YouTube. And Polestar, the electric car co, is launching a phone — Because the smartphone is the Holy Grail of Tech, but it’s littered with failures. $GOOG $PSNY...