The Best One Yet
đ„ âBaguette Bangersâ â Le Pain Quiotidienâs disco. Chinaâs disappearing data. DoorDashâs vibe-cession.
07 May 2025
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Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, May 7th. And today's pod is the best one yet, and this is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. T-boy live tickets on sale today. Today, baby. July 23rd at the Vic Theater in Chicago. Buy your tickets now using the link in the episode description. Yetis, go buy your tickets.
This live show is the biggest event in Chicago since Oprah got drafted by the Bulls. Remember that? Yeah, I do remember that. It's our fourth live show and each one has been an absolute blast. Oh, a thousand seats. Yetis, grab the tickets now. They're out. Link in the episode description. But Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's podcast. What do we got, man?
For our first story, Instacart just launched a new app and DoorDash just acquired two companies. Besties, are we in a recession? If you want to know the answer, open up your delivery apps. For our second story, there's a strange thing going on in China right now. All their economic data is disappearing. Jack, the GDP, where did it go? China's PR strategy in this trade war? Good news only.
Good vibes only. And our third and final story, Le Pancotidien. How did I pronounce that, man? I perfectly stuck the landing. That bakery chain is hosting nightclub dance raves? Yetis, we'll tell you why LPQ is pulling off a discotheque strategy in the bakery. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... Oh, what a mix of stories. Wait, pause the pod. Buy your Chicago tickets, Yetis.
We'll wait. Okay, Jack, we're good to go. If you're walking around San Francisco, you might notice something strange. Because besties on lampposts throughout the city are a bunch of math questions. More specifically, math puzzles that are really hard to crack. Somebody is posting advanced math equations all around the town. And it's actually part of a new trend called nerd sniping.
That's right, nerd sniping. The wildest hiring strategy that Jack and I have ever seen. And yeah, it is straight out of Good Will Hunting. Nerd sniping. Jack, could you please enlighten us onto what the heck this thing really is? One tech company was hiring for engineers, but the market for engineers in San Francisco is crazy tight right now.
So she posted these math problems, knowing that math nerds in the city would not be able to resist them. That's the nerd sniping. Basically, if you solve this equation, you get an interview. So, like, if you look up on a street post, you'll see E equals MC... Square! Boom! You're hired. One sec, Jack. The square root of the parabolic limit is equal to... Does not exist.
The limit does not exist.
Get this guy a job. We got to get this guy on the team. Seriously, this was the idea. Solve the puzzle and you'll get a meeting directly with our CEO. And it was working. Basically the plot of Good Will Hunting. So if you ask someone, how'd you get your role at OpenAI? They may answer, I solved the trigonometry problem set on Lombard Street.
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