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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
not into AI.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
Look at Electronic Arts, America's biggest video game company.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
They just sold for the record amount.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
And they say that AI is at the very core of their business.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
But on the other hand, Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, he says Nintendo would rather go in a different direction and not use any generative AI at the company for their games.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
And that is Nintendo's cheat code.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
When the rest of the industry zigs, Nintendo zags, even on AI.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
And if you're working at a different company and you want to employ this cheat code, just push up, down, left, right, A, B, A, B, A, B, up, down, Y, left, joystick.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
For our second story, Quince just hit a $10 billion valuation for selling dupes of every luxury fashion brand.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
Quince copied its way to the top, thanks to cashmere, candles, but also caviar.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
And it also brings a lesson about skims.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
Ah, Quince.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
Jack, if you had to sprinkle on some context and describe Quince to us, how would you present it, please?
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
It's the luxury version of Shein.
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Quince is Timu, but for Cartier.
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Besties, the online retailer Quince actually did $1 billion in revenue last year selling fancy dupes.
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Their strategy?
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
Copy the $300 Reformation dress, but somehow sell it not for $300, but for $69.90.
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🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
And Jack, what's the secret sauce to pulling off that level of luxury dupe?
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Their business model is DTF, direct to factory.