📼 “The Boomer Tech Founder” — Netflix’s CEO exit. Canned Tuna’s turnaround. Morgan Stanley vs Goldman.
This week’s TBOY Quiz: https://go.tboypod.comNetflix’s co-founder is unlike every other tech founder — and yesterday the self-disrupting legend of a CEO stepped down. Millennials killed canned tuna fi...
20 Jan 202321min
🚫 “Kappa Kappa TikTok” — TikTok’s university ban. Party City’s balloon bankruptcy. Debt Ceiling drama.
If you go to college at the University of Texas or Auburn University, then you can’t TikTok – because it just got banned on campus wifi. Party City is filing for bankruptcy because balloons are its Ke...
19 Jan 202321min
🍷 “This better include a pre-nup” — Tinder’s $500/mo plan. China’s population problem. Mill’s trash innovation.
Match has a dating app problem: Half of its core Millennial users are married — So its solution is $500/month for Tinder++. For the first time in 60 years, China’s population fell last year, which tra...
18 Jan 202319min
🍔 “Double-Double, Animal-Style” — In-N-Out’s expansion. LinkedIn’s languages. JPMorgan’s fakeness.
California’s In-N-Out burger is finally expanding East of the Mississippi, so we jumped into the strategy behind the most-profitable patty in the big burger biz. Everyone’s talking TikTok and Instagra...
17 Jan 202321min
🏈 “82 of the top 100 TV broadcasts” — The NFL’s TV crown. Louis Vuitton’s real-life Succession. Climeworks’ earth-saving vacuum.
Of the top 100 TV programs of last year, 82 were NFL football games. There’s something strange going on at the largest luxury company on earth: LVMH’s CEO has made all 5 of his kids fashion house exec...
13 Jan 202319min
🥸 “Bigger than iPhone” — Apple’s next big thing. Sephora’s anti-influencer. Goldman’s worst day.
Apple’s biggest new thing since the iPhone is reportedly launching this spring: Get ready for… iHeadset. Sephora is ending its Influencer makeup brand with Addison Rae because TikTok is magnificent fo...
12 Jan 202321min
🍆 “$746 to eat duck brains?” — Noma’s restaurant disruption. Rolls-Royce’s pimp my ride. Microsoft’s infinity stones.
Noma was crowned #1 restaurant in the world 5 times, but shockingly just announced it’s shutting because the fine dining business model is broken. For the first time ever, the average Rolls-Royce car ...
11 Jan 202320min
📚 “The ultimate plot twist” — Barnes & Noble’s revenge. Lululemon’s discounting death spiral. DoorDash’s downturn diva.
For the 1st time in a decade, Barnes & Noble is adding stores… and doing it by taking over shuttered Amazon stores. Lululemon plummeted 10% because its fanny packs on sale — which means it’s facing th...
10 Jan 202319min
