The Best One Yet

You thought buying a Porsche was expensive? Porsche is going public at an $84B valuation because Porsche mastered “The Porsche Principle.” The fastest growing coffee chain right now is Blank Street Coffee because their master plan is to be the best coffee… by not being the best coffee. And one of the top Googled search terms in Germany right now is “firewood” because frenemies are breaking up — Ru...

While we were on vacation, we noticed that the #1 beach chair (by far) is made by one company… yet they don’t even make the product: Tommy Bahama. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings competed head-on with HBO’s House of Dragons — Amazon won, but its ratings may change ratings forever. And Kanye West is having a very public fight with Adidas because you live by the influencer and you die by the influencer.$...

We’re on vacation until Tuesday, September 6th, but we decided to whip up a Bonus Episode for ya. Earlier this summer, we sat down with Creator Economy gurus Colin & Samir to discuss the story of how The Best One Yet became The Best One Yet. So we’re sharing this as a bonus episode to you in case you want more TBOY while we’re off. See you in a week. Celebrate the wins,Nick & JackFYI: You can chec...

Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings are about to drop new series with the biggest price tags in entertainment history: $40M per episode… and that budget explains everything. Estée Lauder’s lipstick sales reveal a problem with the whole economy. And Manchester United may be the most undervalued sports team on Earth.$MANU $EL $AMZN $WBDFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tb...

Target revealed it’s already selling its 1st Halloween items (in the summer) because it's focused on the 80/20 Rule. Private Jets, from Taylor Swift’s plane to Wheels Up’s stock, are having a moment as travel becomes country-club-ified. And the Calm meditation app is still making money even though you stopped meditating, because its sneaky sales strategy.$TGT $UP $UALFollow The Best One Yet on Ins...

Velveeta is the one Pandemic product that keeps on winning because the melty cheese pivoted from ads to stunts. Walmart’s earnings pulled up the entire stock market yesterday, but the real story is Walmart’s happy halo of MTV, Nickelodeon, and Star Trek. And Los Angeles is running out of water, but there’s hope in 6 salty stocks that could save Santa Monica.$KHC $WMT $GE $BIPFollow The Best One Ye...

WeWork co-founder Adam Neuman is back and riding a brand new unicorn… His startup Flow is already worth $1B (and it’s just a website). SoulCycle is pulling a move out of Mean Girls to troll Peloton, but they’re both suffering from the dreaded “F’s.” And the worse your airport travel, the better it’s been for Clear’s stock — because Clear solved The Penguin Problem of Platforms.$YOU $WE $PTONFollow...

Tech stocks are down, so Venture Capitalists are jumping into your underwear. Charter Communications is a case study in Cable TV’s strategy: For every Grandkid lost to cord-cutting, squeeze more from Grandma. And Rivian’s electric trucks lost nearly $2B in just 3 months, but its real problem is a certain mineral in Indonesia. $RIVN $TSLA $VSCO $CHTRFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, an...

Disney just won the game of thrones — it passed Netflix in streaming subscribers. Domino’s made a bold bet to expand to Italy… but now it’s quietly exiting without telling anyone (pie-rish exit). And Planet Fitness’ earnings reveal that its favorite piece of equipment is the Price Pole — Because right now you’re sliding down it.$DIS $NFLX $DPZ $PLNTFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, an...

What if we told you that venture capitalists and NBA players and Venture Capitalists just poured $100M into a sports league purely for high school kids? (They did). Sweetgreen just revealed that it’s so focused on making scalable salads that it forgot to do 1 thing: Make something else. And for the first time in years, prices actually went down - Because Inflation is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.$SG...

If you're worried your Landlord is about to jack up your rent, it’s because they probably are… and it’s because of the Spillover Effect. Lyft is tired of just driving you around, so it’s launching a media arm and in-car screens (Spoiler: you can change the music without asking the driver). And the maker of Grand Theft Auto just revealed that video games miss you — In fact, the entire video game in...

Help create the next Tesla: That’s the goal of the biggest climate bill in the history of the climate, which just passed. Newsletter startup Axios just sold for $525M because Lean Media gets Fat Checks. And Oatly sales keep pumping, but its stock isn’t because it may be the Martyr of Alt-Milk.$OTLY $TSLAFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeW...

Batgirl has already cost $90M to film and produce, but it was still canceled last week because Warner Bros hasn’t figured out “The Franchise Formula.” Forget ‘Bama Rush videos (#RollTideTok) — The newest trend on college campuses… is mergers and acquisitions. And iRobot is getting acquired by Amazon for $1.7B because there’s no data more powerful than a map… that your vacuum learned by vacuuming.$...

Starbucks served up record sales thanks to 16-year-olds ordering insanely complex cold drinks. TikTok noticed a funny thing you do when you’re on TikTok, so it just trademarked the term “TikTok Music” (heads-up, Spotify). And Ford just revealed that 70% of the buyers of the new Bronco weren’t Ford customers before… we think Bronco is the Jeep-killer.$SBUX $SPOT $F $STLAFollow The Best One Yet on I...

If you’re traveling right now, did you have to pay extra to use the pool? We gotta introduce you to… Suck-flation. Your beer choices are messing with Molson Coors: You either got a premium brew or whatever can is cheapest. And Robinhood is letting go of 23% of its workers because price isn’t a competitive advantage. $TAP $HOOD $MARFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod...

Abercrombie’s best-selling product right now isn’t a cologne, a polo shirt, or cargo shorts: It’s a $100 wedding dress. You’ve probably heard Nancy Pelosi is visiting Taiwan, but it’s also the home of the most important company in the world. And Boatsetter just raised $38M so you can Airbnb a boat — because Airbnb’s blindspot is the starboard bow. $ANF $ABNB $TSMFollow The Best One Yet on Instagra...

Bird Scooters has become a penny stock because VCs aren’t paying for half your ride anymore. Pepsi is investing $550M into Celsius Energy Drinks, and it’s getting the friends & family discount. And one company visited the White House more than any other in the last year: General Motors. And it just might pay off with a huge climate deal.$BRDS $UBER $CELH $PEP $GMFollow The Best One Yet on Instagra...

Apple just hired a Lamborghini vet… and we think Car Play is Apple's Trojan Car Horse. BeReal is #1 overall in the App Store right now — so naturally, Facebook is zucking it. And TicketMaster just sold tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert for over $5,000 and fans are angry — because Dynamic Pricing is Born to Run.$AAPL $LYV $METAFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod...

The biggest business battle of the summer may be over a $9 bottle of Trader Joe’s sunscreen (vs Supergoop). JetBlue just acquired Spirit Airlines so we’re breaking down why we’ve ignored the last 97 headlines about it. And yesterday the government said we’re in a Recession… but the day before that they said *no* Recession… because this is the first-ever Anti-Recession.$BX $JNJ $BAYRY $JBLU $SAVEFo...

Puma gets no attention as the 3rd biggest sports apparel company, but it’s winning by playing where others don’t want to. Choco-Taco is considered by many the greatest ice cream invention of all time, but it’s now been discontinued. Don’t blame Inflation, blame Thin-flation. And the Senate just passed the biggest chip deal since the computer, because we’re in a “legs race” against China.$UL $PUMSY...

We’re witnessing the most existential zucking of our time: Instagram is copying TikTok (and the Kardashians are really unhappy about it). For years, the only way to get Glossier’s lip gloss was at Glossier, until now — Glossier is coming to Sephora’s 2K stores. And Russia’s economy seems to be doing okay since the war started… except Russia’s economy is 1 big lie. $META $LVMUYFollow The Best One Y...

Pink Sauce has gone viral, but its growth hack was not explaining what it is. At Comic-Con, Disney revealed 2 more phases of its Marvel Cinematic Universe — we think it’s one of the greatest acquisitions of all time. And summer is peak-season for lighting up Weber Grills, yet Weber stock just plummeted 16%.$DIS $WEBR $KHC $SPYFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd n...

Mattel sales jumped thanks to Hot Wheels, but its newest toy partner is… Elon Musk’s SpaceX. A Coinbase product manager was charged with the first ever insider trading for crypto. And Snapchat’s earnings just screamed “Recession,” but then American Express screamed “No Recession” — So we’re going Snap vs AmEx.$COIN $BTC $MAT $SNAP $AMEXFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tb...

FaZe Clan is a video game team that now has a publicly traded stock. Amazon just jumped into your doctor’s office by acquiring One Medical (“paging Dr. Bezos”). And AT&T stock had its worst day in 20 years because you paid your phone bill a day late… and so did everyone else.$FAZE $ONEM $AMZN $TFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Sho...

Amazon is suing the people behind 10,000 Facebook Groups for their fake review schemes because we all pay the Bot Tax. Mules shoes have jumped from women’s fashion to men’s, because under every active fad is a sleeping trend. And yesterday, air conditioner stocks popped because they’re the duct tape of Climate Change. Today, we’ve found the Hail Mary of Climate Change… It’s known as Fusion.$FL $AM...