🦅 “Falcon Mode” — Lyft’s enshittification. Labubu’s viral dolls. Bezos vs Trump on “Tariff Fees.”

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Lyft dropped the wildest CEO letter ever… and it includes “Enshitiffication” and “Falcon Mode.”

The most popular, viral product right now? Labubu dolls… Their growth hack? Blind boxes.

The big business beef was President Trump calling Jeff Bezos… because of a Tariff Fee.

Plus, the world’s biggest pasta brand just solved pasta cooking… with the first “Pasta Playlist.”

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Lyft shareholder letter: https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/letter-to-shareholders

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday. April 30th, and today's
0:07.2	pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
0:13.0	Cha-ching, cha-ching, Jack, the S&P 500 is up for the sixth straight session. Not too shabby.
0:19.3	Main reason? Trump signed two executive orders giving car companies some more tariff relief.
0:24.4	So Wall Street is looking for the one-week win streak. In the meantime, Jack and I found
0:28.8	three fantastic stories for you. Jack, what's on today's tea boy?
0:32.5	For our first story, do the words Falcon Mode or Inshitification mean anything to you? No, they don't, Jack.
0:38.8	I don't know what any of that means. Because the CEO of Lyft just dropped both of those bombs in the
0:44.0	most entertaining shareholder letter of the year. And we read it all for you. For our second story,
0:49.8	the president and Amazon got in a very public fight yesterday. It dominated the news cycle.
0:55.2	Get this, Donald Trump called Jeff Bezos on the phone.
0:59.2	We'll tell you the business beef.
1:01.0	For our third and final story.
1:03.0	Rihanna, Dula Lipa, and Johnny Depp, every celebrity is collecting something called Laboo Boo Boo Dolls.
1:09.4	La Boo Boo Boo Dolls.
1:10.5	LaBoo is the new Beanie Baby.
1:12.5	But here's their growth strategy.
1:14.6	You can't see them.
1:16.7	There's a Forrest Gump line that will explain that cliff hair.
1:19.7	Yeah, that's so true.
1:20.7	But yet before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
1:23.3	I mean, what a mix of stories.
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