🪿 “$900 for pre-dirtied shoes” — Golden Goose’s sneaker IPO. Summer Movies’ 4D theater trend. Elon’s biggest fundraise ever.
Would you pay $900 for a pair of new sneakers that were already dirty? Golden Goose is selling that, branding it “pre-distressed” — And they’re about to IPO at a $3B valuation.Hollywood had its worst ...
29 Touko 202425min
🍂 “Leaf Blower Problems”— Electric Leaf Blowers’ broken biz model. TicketMaster’s European T-Swift breakup. Work-From-Home’s shopping surge.
The Department of Justice just sued to break up Live Nation from Ticketmaster — But there’s a solution to the $10,000 Taylor Swift concert ticket, and we found it in Paris, France.Summer has unofficia...
28 Touko 202423min
☎️“TBOY Hotline Ep #2” — Networking hacks, Investing #girlmath & the 5-min phone call
Nick & Jack take your calls & discuss…The most valuable person in their network If an MBA is worth itThe correct way to eat strawberries #BerryGateDecision making with the SOWhat Gen Z is better at th...
24 Touko 202447min
🍹 “The drink of the summer” — BeatBox’s summer surge. Cars’ anti-speeding feature. Nvidia’s 288-pound superchip.
What will be the drink of the summer? We predict it will be BeatBox’s boxed punch wine — And we used 3 trendspotting strategies to make the forecast.What if your car honked at you every time you drove...
23 Touko 202425min
💋 “ScarJo vs AI” — OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson drama. Target’s value meal. Sonos’ $450 headset strategy.
The ScarJo/ChatGPT drama just got juicer — It turns out OpenAI asked actress Scarlett Johansen last year about using her voice for their chatbot, but she said no… and that’s just the start.Target is s...
22 Touko 202422min
🩱 “85% off Ozempic” — Ozempic’s weight-loss dupe. Burger King’s free-tuition strategy. Red Lobster’s shrimp bankrupt-sea.
Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, & Burger King are all pursuing the same marketing strategy: Pay your tuition — Companies are dishing out scholarships because brands are the new institutions.Ozempic is fac...
21 Touko 202423min
🐔 “Chicken Finger Financier” — Raising Cane’s secret sauce. Mercedes’ “Alabama Discount”. Copper’s the new gold.
Raising Cane’s has become the fastest growing chicken chain in the country, it’s 10x bigger than Sweetgreen — But their secret sauce is actually an app… that you can’t use.A Mercedes’ factory voted ag...
20 Touko 202422min
🫠 “Promotion, Pay Raise, or Taco Tuesday?” — The secret to job satisfaction. Netflix’s NFL Christmas gift. Wayfair’s 1st megastore.
Job satisfaction just hit a record high 62.7% in America, but it also revealed a strange paradox — More Americans prefer company culture than a promotion or pay raise.Netflix just gave itself the bigg...
17 Touko 202423min
