(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)
Share this episode with your buddy in LA… or DM it to Oprah.
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.
And if you crave more business storytelling from us?
Check out our weekly deepdive show: “The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with. From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.
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.Â
Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.
(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.
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.
And if you crave more business storytelling from us? Check out our weekly deepdive show: “The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with. From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly. Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.
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.”
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.Â
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.Â
(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.Â
The stock market just had its worst week of 2024… we explain what determines stocks in 2025.
Bud Light just fell to #3 in beer sales… but it’s all part of Budweiser’s sibling strategy.
“Klaus Industries” (yeah, Santa’s company) just became a $12T business… so we visited the North Pole HQ.
Plus, our Annual Shareholder Report for TBOY… from Co-CEOs Nick & Jack.
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