The Best One Yet
📕 “Hedge Fund University” — Harvard’s $2B battle. Coachella’s Pay-Now-Party-Later. Netflix’s Dr. Evil plan.
16 Apr 2025
Harvard is taking on the Trump admin for $2B… so we looked at the Economics of Endowments.60% of Coachella ticket sales were payment plans… it’s not buy-now-pay-later, it’s pay-now-party-later.Netflix thinks it’s recession-proof… So its new internal goal? Hit $1 trillion Dollars.Plus, what’s the most forgetful day of the year?... Uber’s Lost & Found data just told us$NFLX $SPOT $UBERWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of 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's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, April 16th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Okay, so Jack, what are stocks doing right now? What did stocks do yesterday? They fell a tad. We're in kind of like a calm period right now.
Honestly, if we're in a calm period, I'm getting scared. I don't know what that means, man. But Jack, three stories for today's show.
What do we got on the T-Boy? For our first story, the biggest story of the week isn't tariffs or the trade war. It's $2 billion at Harvard University. Harvard is losing $2.2 billion of federal funding, so we looked into the economics of endowments. For our second story, it's Coachella. It's still the biggest music festival in America, and we're in the middle of it right now.
But the headliner this year isn't Sabrina Carpenter. The headliner of Coachella is the 60% of attendees who are on payment plans. We call it pay now, party later. Party later. And our third and final story. Some analysts on Wall Street think they've found the most recession-proof stock of all, Netflix. Netflix. So we need to talk about Netflix's new Dr. Evil goal. dollars.
You're just listening to us jacks doing the pinky thing. But yet is before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Whoa, what a mix of stories today. Love the mix, Jack. We're not astrology people, but we do believe there is a black hole on planet earth. And that black hole is in the back seat of an Uber taxi.
Because the only time we tend to lose things is when we're unbuckling our seatbelt in the back seat of an Uber. This Is it just us or does your phone always manage to escape your pocket in the back of an Uber Prius? Well, here's the news. Uber just published their annual list of everything left behind in Ubers last year. Basically, Uber's lost and found index, so we jumped into the numbers.
And it's really fun, frankly.
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