âAnd the winner of the Slack-quisition is...â â Citibankâs unicorn hunt. Nasdaq goes woke. Slackâs $28B trophy.
Forget savings accounts â Citibankâs venture capital arm deserves your attention. Nasdaq whipped up a game changing new rule that requires your board have 1 woman and 1 underrepresented minority. And ...
3 Dec 202016min
âBlackBerryâs back, alrightâ â BBâs 30% stock u-turn. Sephoraâs Inception retail. Zoomâs shrinkage.
Instead of hibernating, BlackBerryâs turned from smartphones to smart cars⊠and its stock just shot up 30% on an Amazon partnership. Sephora heard our story on Inception Retail, so itâs whipping up it...
2 Dec 202015min
âI will protect this Pelotonâ â Under Armourâs shoe deal. Kustomerâs Facebook love. S&P Globalâs $44B splurge.
Probably because they watched that Michael Jordan documentary, Under Armour is launching a Steph Curry shoe brand (but weâve got a long-term solution for them). Facebook is reportedly dropping $1B for...
1 Dec 202018min
âBlack Friday is dead (Cyber Monday too)â â The Great Pricing Reset. Slackâs slack-quisition. Pinterestâs secret school.
Weâre gonna call it as we see it: Black Friday is dead, long live Cyber Daily. Pinterest is secretly working on a new project that we think is the future of education. And Slack put up its âOut Of Off...
30 Nov 202017min
âPop collars, pop stocksâ â Abercrombieâs dirty secret. The Dowâs thirty-thow. Toastâs $8B steak knife.
Just in time for our last pod of the holiday week, the Dow hit 30K on word of a new Treasury Secretaryâs signature. We jumped into Abercrombie & Fitchâs latest earnings, but discovered itâs not really...
25 Nov 202017min
âNeeded more Lizzo juiceâ â Snapchat launches TikTok+. Reebokâs $4B fail. Warner Musicâs muted money.
In the biggest social media launch of 2020, Snapchat zucked TikTok⊠but kicked things up nine notches (youâre not a viewer, youâre a voter). Adidas bought Reebok for nearly $4B 15 years ago and is now...
24 Nov 202017min
âCanal Street of the Internetâ â Wishâs public desire. A Wonder Woman Christmas. Affirmâs overdependent IPO.
Circle the calendar (again) for December 25th: Itâs the new Streaming-palooza, courtesy of Wonder Woman and HBO. Wish is IPOâing because Amazon doesnât feel enough like a TV gameshow. And Affirm is al...
23 Nov 202018min
"1 app to rule them all" â Google zucks Venmo. TJ Maxx's final treasure hunt. GM's in-car-surance.
Googleâs new finance app is straight up Venmo, with all privacy perks you expect from Google. TJ Maxx is 100% focused on the treasure hunt experience of physical shopping, but then yesterday happened....
20 Nov 202017min
