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Dec 2023
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BONUS 🚙 “The Car Pod” — Our Best Car st...

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A bonus episode featuring 3 of our top pop-biz news stories on the car industry from 2023. So fill up that tank, charge that battery, and wax that chassis. Let’s jump into our 3 car stories…


1) Mercedes from June 20th: Mercedes created the first ever AI car with ChatGPT — Mercedes just gave birth to The Companionship Economy.

2) Jeep from August 1st: Jeep’s got a surprise new enemy: The Ford Bronco — So we jumped into the numbers behind the car industry’s zero sum game.

3) Porsche from October 2nd: Porsche jumped industries, from cars to condos — Porsche’s luxury apartment building in Miami shows us the cure for a commodity.



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