🌁 “LIVE from SF” — The Gap’s boy band. AI’s GrandmaSlop. SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service. +SF Billboard Boom
The Best One Yet

🌁 “LIVE from SF” — The Gap’s boy band. AI’s GrandmaSlop. SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service. +SF Billboard Boom

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202625 min
  • News bulletin
  • Business & money

LIVE from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco… The Gap just adopted a teenage boy band that toured summer camps… don’t rent a star, raise one. GrandmaSlop is the most contentious AI in America… Boomers use AI least but love it most. PE rolled up pool installers, then the cleaners… It’s SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service. Plus, San Francisco has 489 billboards… and half of them sell AI. $GPS $POOL $SF NEWSLETTER: https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW: Want more business...

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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday the new Friday September 24th and today's a live show from San Francisco Is the best one yet the top three pop business news stories you need to know today Jack This is our in-person offering the IPO tour this time to ring the bell you may as well hit it Three fantastic stories for today's show.

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Jack, what do we got in the team, boy? For our first story, the Gap is so eager to return to its 1990s glory that it's investing in a boy band. It's fashion-tainment, honey.

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The Gap's not renting talent. They're raising it. For our second story, it's the most contentious new frontier of artificial intelligence, Grandma Slob.

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