
Shopify is âThe Forceâ â Jack Dorsey is MIA in Africa â McDonaldâs enters the Crispy Chicken Sandwich Wars
Cyber Monday set a record as the biggest online shopping day in US history â but the real winner this year is Shopify. Jack Dorsey is busy being the CEO of both Twitter and Square, but now he wants to...
3 Des 201919min

Rename Black Friday â SoulCycle vs. Peloton â Dollar Treeâs 19% stock plummet
Black Friday in-store shopping actually fell from last year â but purchases made on smartphones and with in-store pickup dominated, so weâre renaming it: âMobile Cyber Pickup Week.â SoulCycle just los...
2 Des 201918min

*Live* at Spotify - Part II: Why Spotify is doing podcasts â Our interview with Max Cutler, Founder & MD of podcasts at Spotify
The 2nd half of our Snacks recording live from Spotify. We sit down with Max Cutler, the Founder & MD of Parcast Studios at Spotify â his startup was acquired by Spotify earlier this year. Weâre askin...
27 Nov 201917min

EBay sells off StubHub for $4B â Uber gets cancelled from London â Charles Schwabâs Lannister-style acquisition of TD Ameritrade
Ebay snagged StubHub for itself in 2007 for $300M, but it just sold the ticket company for a cool $4B. Uber has officially been rejected from London because policy risk is a real thing. And Charles Sc...
26 Nov 201918min

Amazon knocks off Allbirds â Targetâs shipping nirvana â PayPal buys $4B of Honey
Allbirdsâ CEO noticed that Amazonâs been knocking off its go-to shoes â Amazon calls them âequivalents,â we call them âknock-offsâ. Target is enjoying shipping nirvana and shares are up 91% this year ...
25 Nov 201917min

*Live* at Spotify - Part I: How we build this (every day)
Spotify invited us to their NYC offices to record a live podcast â itâs a podcast about podcasts for our podcast listening Snackers. We introduce to the Snackers how we got into podcasting, how we bui...
22 Nov 201920min

Victoriaâs Secret needs a new CEO, Chobani launches Oat (milk), and TJ Maxx vs. Urban Outfitters
Victoriaâs Secret still has its 83 year old CEO despite (another) rough quarter â So we whipped up a gameplan for them to get less out of touch with millennials. Greek yogurt legend Chobani just intro...
21 Nov 201917min

Warby Parker launches its 2nd product, Microsoft vs. Slack (Microsoft is winning), and Home Depotâs DIY website problems
Warby Parker is the OG disrupter, cutting out the middle man of retail â now itâs launching its 2nd everproduct line: âScoutâ contacts. Microsoft was threatened by Slack, so it launched a rival/knocko...
20 Nov 201914min






















