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Jun 2022
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📖 “70% Rule of Excellence” — Reading’s business ROI. Vital Farms’ egg-troversy. Instagram’s Big Tobacco suit. +Pokémon’s AI test
The best business ideas came from reading 1 sentence… Because 70th percentile 3 times makes you a 99 percenter.Vital Farms’ $1B egg stock is dropping… on Tiktok drama over orange yolks.Instagram & YouTube kicked off the biggest social media court case ever… It’s Big Tobacco 2.0.P ... Show More
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Yesterday
🧻 “TP to AI” — Toto toilets’ tech pivot. Minnesota’s CEO moment. Graza’s olive oil envy. +Spend-vesting
69 of Minnesota’s most powerful CEOs are changing things… in Minneapolis and the country. Graza sold 150M of viral squeezable olive oil… But now it faces Graza-formity & Forrest Gump.Toto is best-known for bidets with heated seats… but now this toilet biz is an AI company?Your fi ... Show More
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Jan 26
🤝 “TikTaken” — TikTok (finally) sold. Diet Coke vs Coke Zero. Madison Square Garden 5.0. +Chimney Sweep Surge
Why is Diet Pepsi dropping, but Pepsi Zero surging?... Boomers do Diet, Zoomers do Zero.Penn Station finally got a $7.5B glam-up proposal… But it all depends on hockey & basketball.TikTok USA was officially sold by China… But this M&A stands for “Messy & Ambiguous.”Plus, the hot ... Show More
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