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The Best One Yet - 🤝 “The #1 trick to get hired” — Job Referrals’ Renaissance. The Gap’s Anne Hathaway comeback. The wildest Air Conditioner stock.

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Due to AI-written resumes, there’s a Networking Renaissance — The data shows that the #1 way to get hired is to have a referral within the company.

The Gap’s stock has surged 240% in the past year — And it’s all thanks to Anne Hathaway, the dessert chef from The Bear, and a former Mattel exec who oversaw Barbie.

And a heat wave hit Miami last week, and hits the American West this week — So we’re looking at the air conditioner brand that wins whether the weather it’s hot or cold.

Plus, we’re flying to LA this week to record our 3rd ever “TBOY Hotline” episode — The theme? Wedding finances… so send us your wedding money questions at nickandjack@tboypod.com


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The Best One Yet - 🦐 “Finance killed the Fish” — Red Lobster’s Bankruptcy: Part II. Nuclear power… for AI. Chewy’s pet adoption rebound.

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Last week we told you about Red Lobster’s all-you-can-eat shrimp-tastrophy that killed the chain — But now we’ll tell you about the Private Equity real estate deal that put it in critical condition.

Oklo is making mini nuclear power plants that look like ski chalets… but for tech companies — Because the more we use Artificial Intelligence, the more we need nuclear power.

And Chewy’s online petstore stock just surged 30% for its best day ever— Because for the first time in 2 years, more Americans are adopting pets than returning them.

Plus, last night was the final of the Scripps National Spelling Bee — And we discovered that the hardest word was also the shortest word…


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The Best One Yet - 🔔 “The Wedding Szn Stock” — Abercrombie’s honeymoon surge. Hampton Inn’s DIY waffles. BuzzFeed => BuzzFox.

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Abercrombie’s stock surged 24% yesterday after its best quarter ever — Because Abercrombie’s all-in on weddings… since wedding “days” are now wedding “weeks.”

How did Hampton Inn become the biggest hotel chain in America? Free waffles — Executives thought DIY waffle machines would never work, but free waffles proved them wrong.

And BuzzFeed is facing a surprise activist investor: former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — Because he wants to turn BuzzFeed into BuzzFox.

Plus, the house from Home Alone is listed for sale… for $5.2 million. Booby traps not included.


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The Best One Yet - 🪿 “$900 for pre-dirtied shoes” — Golden Goose’s sneaker IPO. Summer Movies’ 4D theater trend. Elon’s biggest fundraise ever.

Would you pay $900 for a pair of new sneakers that were already dirty? Golden Goose is selling that, branding it “pre-distressed” — And they’re about to IPO at a $3B valuation.

Hollywood had its worst summer opening weekend at the box office since 1995 — But the “theater of the summer” is gonna be big: 4D movie theaters that you can smell, taste, and even feel.

And Elon Musk just raised $6B for his startup, X.ai, to build the “Gigafactory of Compute” — He flexed his biggest competitive advantage: Fundraising.

Plus, Google’s AI just told people to put “glue” on their pizza — Because when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, AI is what it eats… and Google’s AI is consuming strange content. 


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The Best One Yet - 🍂 “Leaf Blower Problems”— Electric Leaf Blowers’ broken biz model. TicketMaster’s European T-Swift breakup. Work-From-Home’s shopping surge.

The Department of Justice just sued to break up Live Nation from Ticketmaster — But there’s a solution to the $10,000 Taylor Swift concert ticket, and we found it in Paris, France.

Summer has unofficially begun, which means a leaf blower is about to interrupt your lovely afternoon — But the electric leaf blower’s boom has a big business model problem.

And because of Work-From-Home, we’re spending $375B more shopping online midday: It’s nationwide Retail Therapy - And the most popular hour everyone shops is… 11am Friday.

Plus, with inflation so high, dupes aren’t just popular with denim, they’re popular with travel —So we want to hear your “Destination Dupes” (because Liverpool is basically lower-priced London).


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The Best One Yet - ☎️“TBOY Hotline Ep #2” — Networking hacks, Investing #girlmath & the 5-min phone call

Nick & Jack take your calls & discuss…


  • The most valuable person in their network 
  • If an MBA is worth it
  • The correct way to eat strawberries #BerryGate
  • Decision making with the SO
  • What Gen Z is better at than Millennials (not just TikTok). 
  • Single or in a relationship, what’s better for entrepreneurs
  • TBOY Co-Founder Matchmaking
  • And there’s more…


Sit down (literally) with the voices of pop-business, Nick & Jack — The ex-Wall Streeters (now besties) answer questions on investing, entrepreneurship, work, life, and best places to eat. Guac is always extra, but this business advice isn’t. 


Got a question or need advice? Hit us up nickandjack@tboypod.com (we love voice messages). 





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The Best One Yet - 🍹 “The drink of the summer” — BeatBox’s summer surge. Cars’ anti-speeding feature. Nvidia’s 288-pound superchip.

What will be the drink of the summer? We predict it will be BeatBox’s boxed punch wine — And we used 3 trendspotting strategies to make the forecast.

What if your car honked at you every time you drove over 80mph? A new California law may make that happen — Drivers are surprised, but we think it’ll be standard soon… in every car in America.

And Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings report was fueled by sales of their AI superchip — But this ain’t no computer chip, it’s a 288-pound, $40K computing mothership.

Plus, the new trend is “Quiet Vacationing”: When you take vacation on a workday, but you didn’t tell your manager (and today is the ultimate Quiet Vacation Day).


P.S. Tomorrow we’re whipping up a special show for you before Memorial Day Weekend: TBOY Hotline #2 — Our monthly call-in show where we answer your questions on life, work, investing, and do some startup co-founder match-making. Oh, and we’ll deal with the “BerryGate” controversy.


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The Best One Yet - 💋 “ScarJo vs AI” — OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson drama. Target’s value meal. Sonos’ $450 headset strategy.

The ScarJo/ChatGPT drama just got juicer — It turns out OpenAI asked actress Scarlett Johansen last year about using her voice for their chatbot, but she said no… and that’s just the start.

Target is slashing the prices on 5,000 products this summer, just as McDonald’s and Wendy’s dropped prices too — Because we’re about to enter Hot Value Summer.

And Sonos just launched its 1st ever over-ear headphones — Because earphones are the most successful wearable tech in history.

Plus, Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day — On this day, 14 years ago, a Florida man bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoin that today would be worth… $680 million.


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The Best One Yet - 🩱 “85% off Ozempic” — Ozempic’s weight-loss dupe. Burger King’s free-tuition strategy. Red Lobster’s shrimp bankrupt-sea.

Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, & Burger King are all pursuing the same marketing strategy: Pay your tuition — Companies are dishing out scholarships because brands are the new institutions.

Ozempic is facing its first ever dupe, a version that costs 85% less — Hims & Hers found a loophole, and are launching a weight-loss business line off it.

And The Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy yesterday, so we’re comparing the seafood chain to The Olive Garden — One gave away carbs (and thrived), while the other gave away protein (and died).

Plus, Costco is officially hosting birthday parties in aisle 6 — So we want to know which retail chain you’d hit up to host a party.


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The Best One Yet - 🐔 “Chicken Finger Financier” — Raising Cane’s secret sauce. Mercedes’ “Alabama Discount”. Copper’s the new gold.

Raising Cane’s has become the fastest growing chicken chain in the country, it’s 10x bigger than Sweetgreen — But their secret sauce is actually an app… that you can’t use.

A Mercedes’ factory voted against unionizing last week, dealing the UAW a blow — But the real story here involves Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban and the “Alabama Discount”.

And Copper prices are beating gold, crypto, and the entire S&P 500 this year — Because new technologies require new minerals.

Plus, New York City has successfully cut its rat population by 14% — So NYC is hosting the first ever rat convention #RatCon.


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