🔵 “$400M Latte” — Blue Bottle’s acquisition. Oil’s everything tax. Startup-maxxing surge. +Solo Dining Surge
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Founder-Maxxing is the new trend… America is losing jobs, but gaining entrepreneurs.
Blue Bottle Coffee was just acquired by China’s Luckin for $400M… It’s a 9-digit latte.
Oil surged 14% in the biggest one-day pop we’ve ever seen… And it’s a tax on the whole economy.
Plus, did you go to that thing alone this weekend? It’s lonely leisure, and honestly, we’re big fans.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, March 9th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This one. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Happy live podcast show week to all those who celebrate, which is definitely us, Jack. Two weeks ago, we're in Austin. This week we're in Washington, D.C., we still have a few tickets available. |
| 0:38.5 | Link in episode description. Snag the few tickets left in the episode description. We are interviewing Kara Swisher, K-Swish, live in D.C. Plus, the three stories you love, performed live, and more. I mean, there's actually a few surprises, but we can't tell you them right now. Jack, three fantastic stories for today's show. |
| 0:39.3 | So good. |
| 0:40.3 | What do we got on the T-boy? |
| 0:54.6 | For our first story, the price of oil rose by 35% last week. Petro Pop. It's the biggest one-week spike in oil since we've been keeping track. Since the Rockefellers. And because oil seeps into everything, this is a tax on your life. For our second story, oil is important, but first, coffee. |
| 0:58.1 | Yes, Jack. |
| 0:59.1 | Blue bottle coffee was just acquired for $400 million. |
| 1:02.6 | Blue bottle coffee. |
| 1:03.8 | It's an American brand inspired by Japanese design, owned by a Dutch company, and just |
| 1:08.2 | sold to China. |
| 1:09.5 | Okay, Carmen San Diego. |
| 1:10.7 | And our third and final story. |
| 1:12.4 | America is losing jobs, but it's gaining entrepreneurs. |
| 1:16.4 | Besties, 2025 was the biggest year for new startups ever. |
| 1:19.8 | This is founder maxing. |
| 1:21.9 | But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:24.6 | I mean, we were just dancing on that intro. |
| 1:26.6 | Love the mix. |
| 1:27.4 | Love the stories, |
| 1:28.0 | Jack. But Yeties, did you go out to a dinner, a concert, maybe a show this past weekend? And did you go |
| 1:33.3 | with nobody? Because trend alert. Yes. Welcome to the solo economy. Get this, 20% of Broadway |
| 1:40.7 | tickets are now bought by solo attendees. That's twice the rate of just a couple years ago. |
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