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Don't Die Founder @bryan_johnson's baseline assumption about organic food is that it's worse than non-organic food.
"When we test organic, it typically performs worse than non-organic on many variables. So no, I think it's worthless as a marketing protocol."
From his appearance
Reserve F1 driver and founder of Meuze AI @jackdoohanok's workflow is absolutely brutal.
After spending the day at the track gathering data, he flies back to the team's factory and works in the simulator from roughly 6 PM-3 AM, testing setup changes and ideas that engineers
.@garyvee says Fortune 500 CMOs are wasting $0.93 of every dollar they spend, and that "every brand on earth should be spending 20% of their entire marketing budget just on social media organic production."
"Because the mid-funnel and 'tiktokification' of social has eaten up the
Lime CEO @wayneting says the average Lime vehicle generates $7.50/day in revenue with 50%+ cash margins.
“Because we're able to get that level of margins, we pay back our vehicles in less than a year.”
Lime IPO'd earlier this month, raising $167M.
From his appearance on the
Hedge funds are trying and failing to hire prediction market sharps.
"We are just getting crushed by these sharps," said Susquehanna's Jeff Yass.
@iscoe tells the story of a guy who's made 7 figures trading Rotten Tomatoes betting markets, and rejected an offer from SIG:
"He
John believes if you're not missing at least 10% of your flights, you're spending too much time at the airport.
"You have to be taking some level of risk, otherwise you're wasting time."
From an episode last month.
.@ericries explains why former Costco CEO Jim Sinegal refused to raise the price of everything in the store by $.03, despite the fact that Costco knew it wouldn't decrease sales, and would increase their net income by 50%:
"He says, 'It's like the business equivalent of taking
Ridge started with wallets.
Now it sells 10% of all American men’s wedding rings.
CEO @Seanfrank: “I’m a big pronatalist now. I'm like, 'Get married!'"
The Sun Valley photos are starting to trickle out onto social media. A lot of the commentary has been focused on the fashion, but nothing is more impressive than an absolute mass monster flanking you in your security detail.
It's the newest status symbol, and we're perplexed
Phiagate, explained in horse terms
You go from HorseReviews dotcom over to ClydesdalesDirect dotcom. You have Phia installed as an extension. You buy a stunning Clydesdale from the website using its online shopping features, knowing that this particular horse breed — large and
A startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates that bills itself as a “personal shopping assistant” took credit for online sales it didn’t actually drive, a Bloomberg investigation found bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The best time to start a consumer brand, per @Seanfrank:
1. January 2012 at the dawn of Facebook ads
2. Now
Why now?
“It’s moated from AI. I would hate to be trying to sell software right now.”
“People are going to buy stuff forever. You have birthdays. You have Christmas.”
You've seen @tbpn, but you have never been behind the scenes inside the Ultradome before.
@corememory went to LA to hang with @jordihays + @johncoogan + @tylercosgrove + @RealProducerBen and to get the story on how TBPN started and runs.
Full episode here and across our
