👩🚀 “Elon’s favorite child” — SpaceX vs Everyone. $Harvard vs $Yale. NYC vs Delivery apps.
SpaceX wasn’t the first to send regular humans to space, but this week’s launch is otherworldly. Harvard’s college endowment is bigger than ½ the countries in the world, and it’s making an unprecedent...
17 Sep 202117min
🍦 “Grab your McFlurry wrench” — Canva’s $40B tap-onomics. McDonald’s McFlurrygate. Rivian’s Ricky Bobby eTruck.
Canva just became the #5 most valuable startup, and the #1 most valuable female-founded startup ever. Rivian just hit the biggest milestone yet for electric cars: Actually selling the 1st electric tru...
16 Sep 202120min
🐘 “The Jurassic Park startup” — Toast’s IPO champagne. Mailchimp’s bootstrapped billions. iPhone 13.
Toast is popping bottles for its IPO after finding the one area of food everyone forgot about. Mailchimp just sold for $12B by pulling off something no other startup its size has ever done. And every ...
15 Sep 202117min
🤐 “Secret Elite VIP Club” — JPMorgan’s Infatuation feast. Facebook’s secret X-Check. Taxes poppin’.
The WSJ’s deep reporting shows Facebook’s got a secret club of 5.8M VIPs users subject to different FB rules than everyone else. JP Morgan just acquired a hipster restaurant startup The Infatuation (w...
14 Sep 202118min
💩 “Smart Butt” — Casana’s toilet tech. Amazon’s new living room. Fortnite’s epic victory.
Toss out your Fitbit... the biggest new thing in health tech is a smart toilet that analyzes your waste. Amazon knows the average American spends 6 hours/day watching TV, so Alexa TV is taking over yo...
13 Sep 202119min
🕶️ “Facebook Ray-Bans” — NFL’s hail mary 5G. Zuck’s 1st smart glasses. Lulu-ton vs Pelo-lemon.
The NFL season kicks off this weekend, but the focus is your phone. Facebook just whipped up its first smart glasses, so Zuck’s sporting Ray-Bans. And Lululemon stock hit a record high just as Peloton...
10 Sep 202118min
🎮 “GameStop’s rebuilding season” — Theranos' trial. Beauty Pie’s insane loyalty. GameStop’s new team.
Elizabeth Holmes put on her finest black turtleneck for the 1st day of the Theranos fraud trial. GameStop is rebuilding its team with more roster moves than the Mets. And Beauty Pie raised $100M as th...
9 Sep 202118min
🌋 “B-day” — El Salvador’s Bitcoin Day. Callaway Golf’s comeback. Entergy’s buried treasure.
Happy B-Day to El Salvador, which just made Bitcoin legal tender… so we’re looking at how it went down (spoiler: lava). Callaway Golf shockingly claims its sales are about to double, but the real reas...
8 Sep 202119min
