The Best One Yet
👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
19 Mar 2025
Duke is the #1 pick to win March Madness… but that’s a lesson in dumb investing.Google is buying Wiz for $33B… And every Wiz employee is getting $588,000.Corporate Nicknames are actually a curse… Chevy, Mickey D’s, & Bloomies are bad for biz.Plus, time-poor millennials are paying time-rich gig workers $27/hr to wait in line. $GOOG $JWN $MCD $GMWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… MTV 📺 “How Video Killed the Radio Star” Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.“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 Susper Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Ceviche Wednesday, March 19th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three stories at the intersection of business and pop culture. Jack, I'd love to share a couple of things with you. Is that all right? Your Audi likes to whip up the takeaways. Your Audi thinks that interest rates should go up. My Audi?
Okay, please, no more questions. Your Audi owns shares of Peloton. Where are you going with this? The session is concluded. Jack, three stories. What do we got on the pod?
I have no idea. That must be something that went way over my head.
I said the session's concluded. Three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod, Jack? For our first story, Duke is the favorite in the men's NCAA basketball tournament, and it's number one most popular in our brackets, too. But we think you shouldn't pick Duke, and it holds a lesson on smart investing. For our second story, it's Google.
Google just announced its biggest acquisition ever. It's buying Wiz for $33 billion. And as part of the deal, every Wiz employee is getting $588,000. And our third and final story, Chevy, Mickey D's, Bloomy's. They're some of the most famous brand nicknames of all time.
But a wild new study shows what happens when brands start using those nicknames in the first person.
Spoiler, don't do it. It's the curse of the corporate nickname. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
Fantastic mix of stories for an innie. Okay.
I said, just keep going, Jack. Just work with it. Okay, Nick. The least techie thing that we human beings do is being taken over by tech. Waiting online. Get this, Yetis. Line waiting apps are surging right now. Paying people to wait in a physical line on your behalf is at an all-time high. The restaurant in Brooklyn that doesn't do reservations, you can hire a dude to wait online.
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