🧑🎤 “Why has music gotten shorter?” — Spotify’s algo-music. Renting homes beats buying. Dollar General’s worst job ever.
No, you’re not crazy. Songs are getting shorter — Because artists aren’t writing music for fans, they’re writing for Spotify’s algorithm.The Fed thinks interest rates will stay high through the end of...
21 Sep 202318min
⌚👶 “iOvulation” — Natural Cycles’ fertility watch. Disney’s stimulus plan. Elon’s X paywall.
Natural Cycles just got FDA approval for hands-free birth control — Simply by wearing an Apple Watch, this app tells you when you’re fertile.Disney is struuuuggling right now, so it’s splurging $60B o...
20 Sep 202321min
🥕 “$CART” — Instacart’s IPO surprise. SF’s cash for kindergartners. Car-workers’ 40% raise.
Instacart is the rare tech company IPO’ing with a profit — Because Instacart has pivoted from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue.Twelve years ago, San Francisco gave every Kindergartner a college saving...
19 Sep 202321min
💏 “The Prenup Podcast” — Prenups’ Millennial pop. Salesforce’s boomerang job. NFL’s turf obsession.
The unspoken trend in Millennial weddings right now? Prenups — The prenuptial agreement has gone from taboo topic to financial fun.Jets QB Aaron Rodgers is out for the season… thanks to artificial tur...
18 Sep 202320min
🃏 “Caesars Locked Palace” — Casinos’ Hack Attacks. Arm’s Coolest IPO. Surge Pricing for Beer.
Take the weekly news quiz: Go.tboypod.comSubscribe to the daily newsletter: tboypod.com/newsletter- MGM has been hacked so badly that the hotel keys cards don’t work — We think the solution to ransomw...
15 Sep 202321min
🙋🛠️ “Uber built my house” — Uber’s secret taskrabbit. Detroit’s car strike . Coca-Cola’s AI soda.
Code in Uber’s app reveals their secret next product: Uber Chores — It’s Uber’s chance to respect thy elders. The union repping 146K autoworkers goes on strike tonight — It’s GM, Ford, and Chysler, bu...
14 Sep 202319min
⚡ “Goodbye, Lightning” — iPhone 15’s dongle surprise. Bey’s Etsy surge. The Promotion Paradox.
Apple unveiled the new iPhone 15 — But the real story isn’t the phone, it’s the beginning of the end of dongles.Beyonce asked all her fans to wear silver to her concerts — And that surprisingly booste...
13 Sep 202320min
🧠 “The Genius Ingredient” — Elon’s biography takeaway. Twinkies’ snack sale. Google’s antitrust megatrial.
Walter Isaacson’s biography on Elon Musk arrives today, so we jumped in for you — And we found the common ingredient among geniuses like Elon, Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Steve Jobs: Curiosity.Tw...
12 Sep 202319min
