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#1. Wells Fargo launched a credit card you can pay rent with… but they underestimated how Savvy Millennials would use it. (6/24/2024)

#2. An Olympic gold medal winner has a day job — as an investment banker… so we’ll tell you the secret to a successful side hustle. (8/7/2024)

#3. Legendary Wall Street investor Larry Fink wrote a whole letter about DINKs… so we need to talk about your retirement plan already. (3/27/2024)

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(Warning: You’re gonna need 8 napkins for this episode):

#1. Haribo Gummy Bears is now the biggest candy business on earth… because it’s done the same thing for 100 years. (1/22/2024)

#2. The hot new IPO this year? It’s Bubble Tea… Boba tea chains are IPO’ing for billions, but Bubble Tea may face a Bubble Tea Bubble. (5/6/2024)

#3. While all the other food chains struggled this year, one didn’t: Shake Shack… The $10 Shackburger proves perception overpowers prices. (8/5/2024)

Share this episode with the next person you’re eating dinner with… or your hungriest buddy.

We’ll be back on Monday, January 6th, with our regular TBOY podcasts. But look out for more bonus pods from us dropping over the holidays.

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See more music, talk to strangers, play more games.

Ricky Mulvey, Mary Long, and Asit Sharma take a look at the business-adjacent stories that caught their attention over 2024. They discuss:

- The rise of concert ticket prices.

- Why companies trying to solve the loneliness epidemic are in a difficult business.

- The implications of widespread sports gambling.

And a heads-up, Motley Fool Money returns on Friday, December 27.

Companies mentioned: LYV, MTCH, BUMBL, GRND, DKNG, FLUT

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Mary Long, Asit Sharma

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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(Tom Cruise jumped on a chair when he heard this episode):

#1. Netflix just gave itself the biggest Christmas gift of all… NFL football on Christmas Day. (5/17/2024)

#2. Sabrina Carpenter dropped 7 versions of the same song… because the music industry took a strategy from the ice cream industry. (7/22/2024)

#3. The fastest-growing genre in books is “Romantasy”... Romantic Fantasies are driving book sales with pixie dust. (7/15/2024)

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And if you crave more business storytelling from us? 

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If your company isn’t a growth business, what’s the advantage of being in the public markets?

(00:14) Jim Gillies and Ricky Mulvey discuss:

- Why luxury department stores are struggling.

- Disney spending $645 million to make two seasons of the Star Wars series, Andor in a ten-ish minute discussion.

- What investors should consider before using options to generate income.

Companies discussed: JWN, PTON, DISHost: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Jim Gillies

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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Laura reviews 13 critical things you can do to achieve financial success. Use this checklist to adopt better habits that move you closer to your money goals. 

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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(ChatGPT says these are the best AI stories in the whole business news industry):

#1. Every dating app stock is down this year except for 1: Grindr… because Wall Street fell in love with Grindr’s AI wingman. (7/1/2024)

#2. Scarlett Johansson lawyered up after OpenAI tried to rip-off her voice… it’s move fast and break things all over again. (5/22/2024)

#3. We found a social network with zero humans — but billions of bots… Because on SocialAI, you have 1M followers, but none are real. (9/20/2024)

Share this episode with your techiest buddy… or send it to a robot.

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Tom Vice is the CEO of Sierra Space, a company building an end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on earth. Think, space planes and inflatable space habitats.

Ricky Mulvey caught up with Vice at the Sierra Space headquarters for a show that originally aired on March 30, 2024. They discuss:

- The magic of microgravity, and its impact on everything from biotech and batteries to chemistry and computing.

- How rent works in outer space.

- Defense systems and the hope of a space-based “McDonald’s Effect.”

Companies mentioned: MRK, PFE, MRNA, NVDA

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Tom Vice

Producer: Mary Long

Engineers: Desireé Jones, Dan Boyd

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For the most part, our phones work about 95% of the time. But head outside of suburbia, and things get patchy quickly. What would it take to close that final 5% gap?

Scott Wisniewski is the President and Chief Strategy Officer of AST Space Mobile, a satellite company that’s trying to bring connectivity literally everywhere – the desert, the ocean, the air, everywhere. Ricky Mulvey caught up with Wisniewski to discuss:

- What universal connectivity actually achieves.

- The operational challenges of getting something as large as a cell tower onto something as small as a rocket.

- And the developing “land grab” in low-earth orbit. 

Companies discussed: ASTS, VOD, VZ, TMUS, 

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Scott Wisniewski

Producer: Mary Long

Engineers: Rick Engdahl

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For our annual best-of interviews show, we look at the topic of the year – artificial intelligence – through two different lenses: how individuals can put the technology to use, and how companies are using it to make their products better and fuel growth.

(00:33) Wharton Professor Ethan Mollick walks through his four rules for using AI, how he pushes students to use the technology, and the research from his book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. 

(19:03) Reddit CEO Steve Huffman explains how the company is harnessing AI to localize content to reach new markets internationally, open up new revenue opportunities, and improve the user experience. 

Stocks discussed: RDDT, GOOG, GOOGL

Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Ethan Mollick, Steve Huffman

Engineers: Rick Engdahl

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