The Best One Yet
🦅 “Falcon Mode” — Lyft’s enshittification. Labubu’s viral dolls. Bezos vs Trump on “Tariff Fees.”
30 Apr 2025
Lyft dropped the wildest CEO letter ever… and it includes “Enshitiffication” and “Falcon Mode.”The most popular, viral product right now? Labubu dolls… Their growth hack? Blind boxes.The big business beef was President Trump calling Jeff Bezos… because of a Tariff Fee.Plus, the world’s biggest pasta brand just solved pasta cooking… with the first “Pasta Playlist.”$LYFT $AMZN $PMRTYLyft shareholder letter: https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/letter-to-shareholders Want more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… the Starbucks Frappuccino 🥤 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 is Wednesday, Savice Wednesday, April 30th, 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. Cha-ching, cha-ching, Jack, the S&P 500 is up for the sixth straight session. Not too shabby. Main reason? Trump signed two executive orders giving car companies some more tariff relief.
So Wall Street is looking for the one-week win streak. In the meantime, Jack and I found three fantastic stories for you. Jack, what's on today's T-Boy? For our first story, do the words Falcon Mode or Enshitification mean anything to you? No, they don't, Jack. I don't know what any of that means.
Because the CEO of Lyft just dropped both of those bombs in the most entertaining shareholder letter ever.
of the year and we read it all for you for our second story the president and amazon got in a very public fight yesterday it dominated the news cycle get this donald trump called jeff bezos on the phone we'll tell you the business beef for our third and final story rihanna dualipa and johnny depp every celebrity is collecting something called labubu dolls labubu dolls labubu is the new beanie baby but here's their growth strategy
See them. There's a Forrest Gump line that will explain that cliffhanger. Yeah, that's so true. But yet, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, what a mix of stories. The most fascinating, interesting mix of stories. As someone who married into an Italian family, and someone whose business partner, best friend, and co-host is half Italian. Si, a vero, Jack.
I can tell you that the biggest crime against humanity is overcooking pasta. Jack, that fettuccine is al dente. We are spinning it out, man. It's a red flag.
It is.
Because every pasta has a different shape. So every pasta requires a different boil time. If that orchetti is undercooked, that is literally a choking hazard. But here's the solution. The first ever pasta playlist. Get this. Barilla, the world's biggest pasta company, just launched a playlist on Spotify. Specifically for cooking pasta.
It's a series of songs that time up with the cooking time of different pastas. Okay, so DJ Jack, what do we got there on the pasta playlist? Like, what are you going to sing? Well, the capellini, or as you call it in your house, angel hairnet. That only cooks for three minutes. It's a quickie. So that playlist is a single Sabrina Carpenter song. Spaghetti? It's a little thicker.
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