💡 “Ideas = Currency” — TED Talks’ CEO audition. Costco’s girl math. ‘Musking’ the US Gov’t.

TED Talks needs a new CEO… but TED is actually the deepest media biz we’ve ever seen.

Elon’s mission to disrupt the government hit a new level, that requires a new term… “Musking.”

Costco is now paying workers 2x the average… it’s the cost that pays for itself.

Plus, a record 22M Americans called in sick today (got a case of the Super Bowl Mondays).

$COST $WMT $SPY

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