“We made the 1st ever podcast NFT” — LEGO goes norm-core. Netflix ends password sharing. Coupang out-Primes Prime.
LEGO is winning the toy world by going hardddd into normcore. Netflix is testing tech that prevents you form using someone else’s password. And the biggest IPO of 2021, South Korea’s Coupang, is actua...
15 Maalis 202116min
“Risk life, deserve Twizzler” — Adidas jumps on Peloton. AMC gets rich. Johnson & Johnson is Batman.
Turns out Adidas wants to be like Nike (and it’s also getting a Peloton). AMC’s sales have plummeted 90%, but it found $300M in cash under its seats. And Johnson & Johnson’s latest vaccine movies reve...
12 Maalis 202118min
“The NBA cancelled and Tom Hanks got COVID” — Corona-conomy’s 1-year. Roblox goes public. Elf Beauty’s burrito lipstick.
It’s official. We’re 1 year into the corona-conomy, so we whipped up the most important numbers from it. Roblox just went public... and 3 out of 4 American kids are using it. And Elf Beauty is doing t...
11 Maalis 202118min
“Ohhhh, the macrame” — Kayak’s hotel leap. Amazon’s Alabama situation. Carbon Capture’s guilt economy.
Booking owns a bunch of travel apps, including Kayak, is jumping off the internet to launch its own physical hotel… but we think they got the idea from streaming. Amazon’s situation in Alabama reveals...
10 Maalis 202118min
“If you could sell stock of The Crown” — AT&T’s alleged cheating. Discord’s maverick. Gatorade’s tech thingie.
The social media app du jour Discord hit a $7B valuation for doing the opposite of every other social media company. Pepsi’s Gatorade just made an unprecedented move in the beverage industry: It’s lau...
9 Maalis 202116min
“A $1M JPEG file” — NFT’s pre-mainstream moment. Nasdaq’s “correction” latte. Amazon’s 2nd profit puppy.
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are having their moment. People are buying JPEGs or video files… that anyone can watch online. The Nasdaq’s midday plummet on Friday reminds us of a barista’s moves on your ...
8 Maalis 202119min
“Jay Z & Jack” - Tidal sold to Square. The She-cession. Carrier’s air-conditioned stock.
We told you in January that the most shocking deal of 2021 might happen… and now Jay-Z’s Tidal has been acquired by Jack Dorsey’s Square. We’re about to get February’s jobs report numbers, but we alre...
5 Maalis 202118min
“Popped collars of TikTok” — Abercrombie’s influencers. Oscar’s bull case. Google’s burned cookies.
Abercrombie isn’t the company you think it is anymore (it’s a D’Amelio). Oscar Health’s stock dropped on its IPO day despite the freelancification of America. And Google is burning its cookies that st...
4 Maalis 202117min
