The Best One Yet
👸 “How Poppi got Pepsi’d” — Poppi’s $2B Cinderella deal. Apple’s SuperSiri delay. Law Schools’ app surge.
18 Mar 2025
Poppi soda just sold for $2B to Pepsi thanks to 1 rebrand strategy… inspired by Cinderella.Apple quietly announced its “Super Siri” AI is delayed a year… and Warren Buffett sold.Law school applications surged by 21% this year… because thinking is AI-proof (we think).Plus, the untold origin story of… MTV.$AAPL $AMZN $PEP Want more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… MTV 📺 “How Video Killed the Radio Star” 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.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, March 18th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three stories at the intersection of business and pop culture. Markets closed up for the second day in a row. No news is good news on Wall Street. Not too shabby, Jack. There's even rumors that egg prices could be coming down soon.
Eggs going down, stocks going up for Todd is Tasting. Fantastic, Jack. Feels like a T-boy. What do we got on the pod today? Poppy, the buzzy prebiotic soda, was once on Shark Tank asking for a $2 million valuation. But Poppy just sold for $2 billion to Pepsi, thanks to Cinderella. For our second story, Apple's big AI upgrade for your iPhone, it just got epically delayed.
Because Apple's foot is in Siri's mouth. And our third and final story. applications to law school surged by 21% this year, and we found three reasons why. One of them, a JD teaches you how to think, and thinking is AI proof. We think. But yet, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories today, Jack. You may still be stretching out on a beach with some banana boat.
You may still be kicking it down in Cabo, besties. But when it comes to spring break, there's one brand most associated to it. In fact, this brand basically invented, scaled, and turned spring break into a business. They turned spring break into- Yeah. Spring That company is MTV Music Television. MTV transformed spring break into a national phenomenon. Into a profit puppy.
In fact, we think MTV is the most impactful TV channel in the history of TV. Fact, no TV channel has influenced culture more than MTV has. Without MTV, we wouldn't have music videos. Without MTV, we wouldn't have reality TV. But did you know that MTV initially refused to play music from Michael Jackson? They only did it reluctantly because David Bowie intervened.
It's a wild story, and so is MTV's transformation from music TV to reality TV. From Total Request Live to the Jersey Shore. We did a whole episode on MTV, and you can check it out on The Best Idea Yet. So besties, if you are on a beach, if you're in a bikini, or if you're just stuck on a flight down to Fort Lauderdale, listen to this episode this week. To quote Exhibit, we pimped out this episode.
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daily let's do 15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm they had an idea to cause a cultural storm it's the best one yet but the best is the norm jack nick that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show
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