The Best One Yet
🏡 “She’s Zexting Me” — Zillow’s gossip pop. David’s $725M protein bar. Circle’s stablecoin IPO.
02 Jun 2025
Zillow stock has surged 70% in the last year… because house gossip is good.David is a very high-protein protein bar… worth $725M. Because every business needs 3 moats.Circle is going public in an IPO… so we’ll tell ya what the heck a stablecoin is.Plus, the greatest internship story ever? Sprite turned an intern project into a real product.$Z $K $CRCLWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Heinz Ketchup 🍅Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.TBOY Live Show Tickets to Chicago on sale NOW: https://www.axs.com/events/949346/the-best-one-yet-podcast-ticketsAbout Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today’s top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, TBOY Lite is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts NEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Our 2nd show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly.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. Welcome back. It is Monday, June 2nd. 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. Well, Jack, you've got the glow of someone who went to a farmer's market over the weekend. I did, but it was another rainy farmer's market.
Oh, I'm so sorry, man. Did I tell you?
We've had 11 straight rainy Saturdays. I know. I feel guilty because we went to the beach in San Francisco. I feel guilty. I feel guilty. But we do, Jack, have three of the best stories we've ever done on this show. So, Jack, what is on today's T-Boy? For our first story, every part of the housing market is ice cold right now, except for one, Zillow.com.
Zillow, their stock is up 70% this year because when it comes to houses, gossip is good. For our second story, it's David. David is a very high protein protein bar. And they're now worth more than the RX bar, a valuation of $725 million. Because a lab invented a new kind of protein, and this bar bought that bar. And our third and final story, IPOs are back, baby.
And the one that you got to know about right now is Circle, the stablecoin company. So Jack and I are exploring what the heck a stablecoin actually is. Or as the Germans call it, stablecoin. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Whoa, what a mix of stories to kick off the week. Love the mix, Jack. Welcome to June. It is peak intern season. Intern season.
Every bar downtown is filled with new suits and pencil skirts. I remember my first suit. Joseph A. Bank lured me in with one of their buy three suits, get one free deal. And I remember your first suit. Not one of them actually fit. I was swimming in that thing. So to inspire all the interns out there, Jack and I have found the most valuable intern of all time. The MVI.
We found the best intern story yet. Get this, yetis. Sprite's newest soda was invented by interns. That's right. Coke's senior creative director just said so in an interview with Ad Age. Their interns invented the soda. Here's the context. Last week, Coca-Cola launched Sprite plus tea, a soda plus tea combo. Which is begging to be spiked with some kind of alcohol, by the way, Jack. It really is.
But Sprite actually got the idea six years ago from their summer intern cohort. That's right. Sprite's summer interns of 2019 pitched Sprite Plus T in their final intern presentation. Now, at the time, the executives gave the interns the old slap on the back and said, nice work, youngsters. Email us the PowerPoint. Have fun in school this fall, kiddos.
I love the energy those kids brought to the office. Good kids, good kids. Let's not pay them. But... Sprite just turned that intern project into a product. Yes, they did. And we know what Sprite should do next, don't we, Jack? Pay those interns. Uh, hey, Coca-Cola, why not send those interns a cut of the Sprite tea sales? Track down that 2019 internship class on LinkedIn.
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