7 Figure Clipping Empire, Meta's New Plan, SpaceX Phone | GCP Ep 1014

Group Chat

Business, News, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Group Chat is back, and this one's a masterclass in how the internet actually works now. The guys sit down with Max Peterson, the 23 year old who built a seven figure clipping empire, paying out over $3 million to 38,000 clippers. Max breaks down how brands like Taco Bell turn podcasts and events into millions of views. Then the crew gets into Meta's surprise new business, Elon's rumored iPhone killer, and why Nike might be the most fixable company in America.

This week's Group Chat covers:

From posting memes at 12 to running clipping campaigns for Taco Bell and major brands
Max Peterson's come up: bootstrapping a seven-figure business on $2,500
The new American dream making $30K a month just posting clips
How clipping works and why every brand will soon have to pay for it
Meta's surprise pivot selling its excess AI compute like AWS, and why the stock popped
The investing lesson hiding in plain sight: when Zuckerberg tells you the plan, believe him
SpaceX's rumored phone Starlink connected, slimmer than the iPhone, and coming for Apple
Why Elon might be the only one who can actually dethrone the iPhone
Bending Spoons' IPO and the business of buying dying brands (AOL, Vimeo, Evernote)
Nike's big miss the US Men's Soccer merch fumble and how to fix the brand
Michael Burry shorting Nvidia and Tesla, and the Substack doom grift
The $40M Sam Altman movie Amazon shelved because no one wants to upset OpenAI

Plus World Cup fever, team USA mania, and why history keeps repeating itself in marketing.

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0:00.0	All right, Kathy's special episode right before we all dive into the 250th anniversary of America.
0:09.4	USA!
0:10.8	Big game today.
0:12.0	Big game.
0:12.9	Very big game.
0:13.6	We're recording before the biggest event in America today.
0:17.0	Biggest event in America, definitely.
0:18.5	We have to win.
0:19.2	Otherwise, it'll be sad.
0:22.8	But before we get into the news and the normal episode, our friend Andre, brought a friend today. And, you know, we've talked about
0:32.4	clipping on this podcast before because one of the things about clipping, if you don't know what
0:40.0	it is, because I know there's a lot of boomers that listen, clipping, maybe Max, Max Peterson's here.
0:45.4	And really quick context. He mentioned Andre, he's a close friend of ours. He works at TikTok,
0:51.3	which is where clipping has become a part of like the monoculture of American
0:56.1	society. So, Max, before you tell what clipping is, I'm going to tell you what I think
1:00.6	clipping is. And then you give, you give your interpretation. I was going to go off to Google
1:04.9	definition. Okay. You go off the glue. I would go off what I think it is in practical sense.
1:09.3	Yeah. I think it's an incredible way to brainwash people.
1:13.6	It is the new way to spread propaganda in a way that it just hits you so many times.
1:19.9	And I became familiar with it when drama told me probably during COVID, he was like, do you know who Andrew Tate is?
1:26.9	And I was like, I have no idea who that is.
1:29.2	He's like, he's created a strategy where he doesn't really post, but he gets people to post
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