🤮 “The Rent Is Too Damn Higher” — Housing’s spillover effect. Lyft’s backseat tablets. Videogames’ 1 step backward.
If you're worried your Landlord is about to jack up your rent, it’s because they probably are… and it’s because of the Spillover Effect. Lyft is tired of just driving you around, so it’s launching a m...
10 Aug 202219min
💰 “Lean Media gets Fat Checks” — Axios’ bullet point. The Climate Bill’s Tesla goal. Oatly’s martyr milk.
Help create the next Tesla: That’s the goal of the biggest climate bill in the history of the climate, which just passed. Newsletter startup Axios just sold for $525M because Lean Media gets Fat Check...
9 Aug 202218min
🦇 “Batgirl For Never” — DC Comics’ cancellation. Colleges’ merging. Amazon’s iRobot deal.
Batgirl has already cost $90M to film and produce, but it was still canceled last week because Warner Bros hasn’t figured out “The Franchise Formula.” Forget ‘Bama Rush videos (#RollTideTok) — The new...
8 Aug 202219min
🧊 “Iced Hot Girl Walk” — Starbucks’ latte flywheel. Ford’s Jeep-killer. TikTok’s musical frenemy.
Starbucks served up record sales thanks to 16-year-olds ordering insanely complex cold drinks. TikTok noticed a funny thing you do when you’re on TikTok, so it just trademarked the term “TikTok Music”...
5 Aug 202219min
🏋️ “$50 gym fee” — Marriott’s suck-flation. Robinhood’s price problem. Molson’s draught divide.
If you’re traveling right now, did you have to pay extra to use the pool? We gotta introduce you to… Suck-flation. Your beer choices are messing with Molson Coors: You either got a premium brew or wha...
4 Aug 202216min
💃 “The Wedding Crasher outfit” — Abercrombie’s perfect dress. Taiwan’s most important company. Boatsetter’s Airbnb-share.
Abercrombie’s best-selling product right now isn’t a cologne, a polo shirt, or cargo shorts: It’s a $100 wedding dress. You’ve probably heard Nancy Pelosi is visiting Taiwan, but it’s also the home of...
3 Aug 202218min
⚡ “Big Drink Energy” — Celsius’ Pepsi deal. Bird’s Millennial scooter. GM’s White House meeting.
Bird Scooters has become a penny stock because VCs aren’t paying for half your ride anymore. Pepsi is investing $550M into Celsius Energy Drinks, and it’s getting the friends & family discount. And on...
2 Aug 202219min
🐎 “Apple + Lamborghini = iCar rumors” — Apple’s Trojan Horse. BeReal’s selfie moment. TicketMaster’s Sprinsteen price.
Apple just hired a Lamborghini vet… and we think Car Play is Apple's Trojan Car Horse. BeReal is #1 overall in the App Store right now — so naturally, Facebook is zucking it. And TicketMaster just so...
1 Aug 202219min
