“Deceptively Good Marketing” — A24’s Elizabeth Holmes hit. Hermes emerging suburbs. Supplement acid strips. + Failure Day
The Best One Yet

“Deceptively Good Marketing” — A24’s Elizabeth Holmes hit. Hermes emerging suburbs. Supplement acid strips. + Failure Day

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202621 min
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“You Can See Everything” has a 21% chance of winning Best Picture… because Nathan Fielder has a strategy. Hermes’ new emerging market? American suburbs… But Nashville’s store won’t look like Paris. Olive oil in shampoo bottles, water in beer cans… but supplement in acid strips? Hot new trend. Plus, Happy International Failure Day… which we failed. $HESAY $AMC $SPY Grab your Tickets to the IPO Tour: Our In-Person Offering Seattle 11/4 (21+): https://www.axs.com/events/1446394/the-best-one-yet-tickets NEWSLETTER: https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW...

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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, so we change Wednesday, October 21st. Density's Pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Two weeks until our final live show of the IPO tour, Jack.

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It's in Seattle. In fact, I'm wearing Filson, a shirt I bought in Seattle for our last live Seattle show three years ago. I thought you were some Pendleton, but, uh, Filson will do, Jack. Filson will do besties. Just grab your tickets, we got a link in the episode description. Oh, and the guests for the live show, we'll announce it later this week.

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It's the best venue in Seattle for the best one yet. Can't wait to see you there. Get your tickets in the meantime. Jack and I got three fantastic stories for the funnest place in finance.

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