250: WTF happened to your favorite brands incl. Outdoor Voices, Glossier, Abercrombie & Fitch, and more

Pop Apologists

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Society & Culture, Talk Radio

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Lauren and Chan are joined by Sammi Cohen, a rising star in the world of financial and business content creation who bridges the gap between Wall Street and pop culture. She is known for her deep dives where she breaks down and demystifies complex financial concepts and uncovers what's really happening with today's biggest brands. Together they discuss: What happened to Outdoor Voices (4:16) The fall of the female founded “girl boss” brands (19:49) Venture Capitalist roles in building a brand (26:58) The rise and struggles of Glossier (32:11) Kourtney Kardashian’s problematic brand, Lemme (41:18) The death and resuscitation of mall brands (50:02) Find Sammi Cohen on Instagram and TikTok at @sammicohentalks, as well as her weekly newsletter “Social Currency”. Shop Clean Simple Eats protein powder and use code POPAPOLOGISTS for 10% off! Click here to try EarlyBird CBD/THC gummies and use code POP20 for 20% off. To support the show, consider subscribing on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts, where you can get a bonus episode of Pop Apologists every Friday! Please note this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.

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0:00.0	You know that Chris was like, Courtney, we think we have an opportunity here.
0:04.9	Like, Chris, like, in the board room.
0:06.4	She's like, you bring Chris into this.
0:07.9	Let me GLP1.
0:09.2	Kendall's got 808 or whatever.
0:10.8	Courtney probably didn't even know this was happening.
0:12.0	No, Courtney literally didn't.
0:13.6	So she, like, woke up and saw the Instagrams about it.
0:24.5	Well, well, well, welcome to Pop Apologists.
0:28.5	Today we have a very special guest on the podcast, Sammy Cohen.
0:37.1	She's a rising star in the world of financial and business content creation, bridging the gap between Wall Street and pop culture. Everyone will know her from her deep dives
0:40.0	where she breaks down and demystifies complex financial concepts and uncovers what's really
0:45.5	happening with today's biggest brands. We're so happy to have you on pop apologist. Thank you for
0:49.8	being here. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. No problem at all. Sammy, I'm so excited
0:57.0	you're here. I initially started following you and I think I was served your outdoor voices real.
1:01.7	And I like to consider myself, you know, interested in the world of business. Interested.
1:06.0	Okay. And no, I just find that your content is so interesting because you do break down business concepts
1:13.7	and stories about brands that we're all obsessed with. And I was talking with Chandler about
1:18.4	this last night when we were kind of discussing the episode. I feel like even though our show is
1:23.2	normally about pop culture and celebrities, most of us are not only interested in like what's
1:28.4	going on with Angelina and Brad's tenure divorce, but we're also interested in like what the
1:33.1	fuck happened to outdoor voices and why the brand is lame now. And like all these brands that
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