👉 “Poke” — MySpace vs. DisTok. Travis Kalanick’s future-port. Pringles’ perfect AI potato. +Spreadsheet Dating
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What’s driving the MySpace comeback and Disney’s TikTok partnership?
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, August 6th, and today's pod is the best one yet, and this is a team boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. But the big question today, can you wear shorts to the office? Is this okay? Is this happening? No. Okay. Jack, the head of Instagram, Adam Masseri, he's doing shorts right now. He wore them yesterday. But that's like a thirst trap. He literally owns Instagram.
Yeah.
I think you did it for the comment section. In the meantime, stocks are at all-time highs. The show is at all-time highs, Jack. Nobody wants to see your hairy shins, Nick. What do we got in the best place in business? Have you seen these calves? For our first story, MySpace is making a comeback while Disney is hooking up with TikTok. Yetis, these two stories explain the future of social media. MySpace 2.0 and DizTalk. For our second story, your next Pringle may be perfect because of AI. Potatoes, Pringles, and digital twins. It's the recipe for the elusive return on AI. And our third and final story is Uber founder Travis Kalanick. He's back. He just raised $1.7 billion for his next startup, Atoms. And Travis signed a deal to build a new thing called a Vertiport, the travel port.
of the future and it's right downtown it's coming downtown but yetis before we hit that wonderful mix of stories wonderful mix of stories love the mix for the new friday jack tinder fatigue bumbles been humbled dating apps they've been dead baby but the surprise new way for young people to find love it's in the spreadsheets excel spreadsheets get this singles are so burned out right now they're letting spreadsheets decide their dates jack forget intuition emotion or romance man Alex is crunching Kevin's over on Excel. And redefining the command VLOOKUP. She has a whole separate tab just for dudes named Brian. I mean, Jack, how do you know if he's the one? Because the cells merged and I didn't get an error.
That's a green flag right there. The Wall Street Journal actually found one woman whose dating spreadsheet is such a good template, she's turned it into a business. charging 10 bucks a month for a copy for Excel and 10,000 people are paying for it, man. These spreadsheet singles believe that data is the cure to their dating drama. So these love hackers have created data sets to spot patterns. Like I only catch feelings after the fourth date. Or my best dates order two drinks. If they bring up their mom more than once, it's a turn on. If they bring it up more than four times though, is that a turn on? Okay, just checking. I was just curious. So, Zillennials are now tracking dates like you count steps.
How is Disney planning to integrate TikTok videos inside Disney+?
Call it a Fitbit for feelings. But seriously, Nick, how do you know she's the one? Because, Jack, the conditional formatting told me so. Are we going to do a spreadsheets, bed sheets joke? I'm just going to say, I'm a freak in the spreadsheets, Jack.
Let's see our three stores. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a 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, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
For our first story, MySpace is making a comeback while Disney is hooking up with TikTok. What's going on? These two events show the two different futures of social media. Yetis, let's go back to June 2006. Jack and I were graduating from high school. Jack actually had just gone to prom in a white tuxedo, which that was a flex, Jack. I saw those pics. You didn't mention the lavender tie, Nick. No, no, I didn't, Jack. But the new website at the time of our high school graduation, the biggest website on earth, what was it? MySpace. It had just passed Yahoo and Google as the most visited website in the world. But it turns out MySpace actually started as an internet side project before it accomplished all of that.
Because three years earlier, in 2003, two brothers in Santa Monica invented the first social network.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What’s driving the MySpace comeback and Disney’s TikTok partnership?
0:00–2:24
2
How is Disney planning to integrate TikTok videos inside Disney+?
2:24–5:13
3
Why are Pringles using AI‑generated digital twins to perfect the chip?
5:13–8:09
4
What does “ROAI” mean and how did Pringles achieve a 40% return on AI?
8:09–10:39
5
How are millennials using shared Excel spreadsheets to find love?
10:39–13:43
6
What is a vertiport and how is Travis Kalanick’s Atoms building them with Joby?
13:43–16:31
7
Why do investors now demand measurable AI results and what’s the impact on snack brands?
16:31–19:38
8
What are the latest market moves – oil‑strait deal, Elf Beauty tariff refund, and new toilet‑paper tech?
19:38–22:21
Speakers
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