🚦 “The 1st ever robot-car chase” — Cruise’s red-light joke. Grover’s $1B toothpaste. Warner Bros’ birthday.
We just got the first self-driving-taxi car chase in the streets of San Francisco, and of course it went viral. Grover hit a $1B valuation to refurbish your iPhone and rent it to a buddy using the too...
12 Apr 202221min
👡 “When Birkenstocks get bullied” — Elon & Jack’s Texas bit-mine. Birkenstocks’ store wars. Home-flation drama.
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Ben the Bitcoin walk into a Texas bar… and open the world’s first sustainable crypto mine. Birkenstocks were living their comfiest life, until they got bullied in aisle six...
11 Apr 202217min
👖 “If Zeus shopped for jeans” — Levi’s denim-topia. SoFi’s student loans. Walmart’s otherworldly HQ.
Slim-fit is out, wedge-cut is in. So Levi’s whipped up a new store feature designed to be a Profit Puppy. SoFi dropped 7% on word your student payments got deferred, again — they’re frozen for the sum...
8 Apr 202218min
🐉 “Gate of Thrones” — Fast is gone. Coke’s flavored pixels. JetBlue wants Spirit gates.
Fast was supposed to be the next unicorn FinTech startup… now it’s gone. Coke’s latest flavor “tastes like pixels” because Coke is becoming a branded house. And JetBlue bid $3.6B to buy Spirit Airline...
7 Apr 202219min
🌭“My dog ate my truffle steak” — Honest Kitchen’s human dog food. Tiger Woods’ un-swooshing. Amazon’s internet rocketship.
Amazon’s next big product? It’s the internet… delivered from space. Honest Kitchen just hit a $500M valuation to make human-grade dog food a thing (Fido likey truffle). And for the 1st time in 25 year...
6 Apr 202218min
😎 “#GigaTweet” — Elon buys some Twitter. Shein’s $100B tank top. Russia’s ruble reversal.
Elon acquired 9% of Twitter, because the Technoking wants to rule the #technoworld. Shein is reportedly about to hit $100B private valuation because it knows you want a tank top before you know you wa...
5 Apr 202217min
🐝 “Robo-bees live in a luxury yurt” — WWE’s new wrestling bicep. Beewise’s $80M smart hive. Amazon’s 1st ever union.
Beewise just snagged $80M for smart hives that make bee honey drip money. World Wrestling Entertainment already did fake chokeholds, now it’s doing real drama TV. And Amazon just got its 1st ever unio...
4 Apr 202217min
🏎️ “200 mph on the Vegas Strip” — Formula1’s American youth. TikTok’s Mean Girls. Oil’s piggy bank party.
Maybe the dirtiest Facebook story of the year: Zuck borrowed a strategy from Mean Girls to burn TikTok. Formula 1 racing pulled a Ricky Bobby and now has a younger audience than the NFL or NBA… and it...
1 Apr 202217min
