🏒 “NHL = 44X < NFL” — Zale’s proposal-palooza. Starbucks’ 50th. Hockey’s renaissance.
The owner of Zales, Kay, and Jared’s isn’t just selling more jewelry than ever, it’s selling pricier jewelry. Is Starbucks 50 years old or 50 years young? And the NHL is kicking off its renaissance se...
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🩲 “Who wears short shorts?” — Chubbies’ frat IPO. Southwest’s hangover. Nobel’s burger-flipping prize.
The artist behind Chubbies’ shorts is going public, but it’s really a fraternity. Southwest Airlines just canceled so many weekend flights that its stock dropped (and the mysteries began). And the Nob...
12 Loka 202119min
🦇 “Keep Elon Weird” — Saudi’s soccer cinderella. Tesla’s Austin move. Asana’s CEO secret.
Asana’s stock is a top stock of 2021 - and their CEO has been buying more and more of his own stock all year. Tesla just quit California to move to Austin, but the real story here is every company *ex...
11 Loka 202118min
👖 “Cotton Catastrophe” — Levi’s chain. Perfect Day’s meat ice cream. Gen Z’s Nike-fication.
Levi’s stock surged 8% not because of jeans it’s selling, but because of what it’s buying. Perfect Day hit a $1.5B valuation for pioneering a new phase in the Future Food industry: Meat-Based-Meat-Wit...
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🖼️ “1/1000th of a Bob Ross” — Cruise’s $50B robo-taxi ride. Masterworks’ unicorn painting. Google’s carb nudge.
Cruise’s robo-taxis are already driving through the streets of San Francisco, which could deliver GM an extra $50B in sales. Masterworks hit a $1B valuation by letting you buy a piece of a Picasso. An...
7 Loka 202119min
🍷 “Hey Alexa, pour Pinot” — Napa’s audio wine. Twitter’s tipping. Oil’s $5 per gallo
Duckhorn Vineyards just IPO’d as a pure-play pinot stock, but its latest move isn’t drinking wine, it’s listening to wine. Oil prices just hit record highs worldwide — and that’s really a tax on the e...
6 Loka 202119min
🦑 “#SquidGame” — Netflix’s squid strategy. Crypto’s physical stores. Undersea Cables’ moment.
Squid Game has become a market-moving Netflix show messing with stocks. The latest move in digital cryptocurrencies is physical crypto stores. And a 470-mile undersea electric cable by National Grid i...
5 Loka 202119min
🍸 “What happens at Cosmo” — Merck’s Covid pill. Vegas’ $5.7B Cosmopolitan. Ozy’s Fyre Fest.
Merck jumped 16% on word it may have created a Covid-crushing pill, then its stock created a Corporate Conga Line. The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Vegas sold for $5.7B and the winners are bach parties and B...
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