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The Best One Yet

📕 “Hedge Fund University” — Harvard’s $2B battle. Coachella’s Pay-Now-Party-Later. Netflix’s Dr. Evil plan.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Harvard is taking on the Trump admin for $2B… so we looked at the Economics of Endowments.

60% of Coachella ticket sales were payment plans… it’s not buy-now-pay-later, it’s 

pay-now-party-later.

Netflix thinks it’s recession-proof… So its new internal goal? Hit $1 trillion Dollars.

Plus, what’s the most forgetful day of the year?... Uber’s Lost & Found data just told us


$NFLX $SPOT $UBER


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday, April 16th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Okay, so Jack, what are stocks doing right now? What did stocks do yesterday? It fell a tad. We're in kind of like a calm period right now. Honestly, if we're in a calm period, I'm getting scared.

0:21.6

I don't know what that means, man.

0:23.8

But Jack, three stories for today's show.

0:26.5

What do we got on the T-boy?

0:27.8

For our first story, the biggest story of the week isn't tariffs or the trade war.

0:32.0

It's $2 billion at Harvard University.

0:34.6

Harvard is losing $2. billion bucks of federal funding,

0:38.0

so we looked into the economics of endowments.

0:41.5

For our second story, it's Coachella.

0:43.4

It's still the biggest music festival in America,

0:45.6

and we're in the middle of it right now.

0:47.1

But the headliner this year isn't Sabrina Carpenter.

0:49.9

The headliner of Coachella is the 60% of attendees who are on payment plans.

0:54.5

We call it pay now, party later.

0:57.1

Party later.

0:58.2

And our third and final story.

1:00.2

Some analysts on Wall Street think they found the most recession-proof stock of all.

1:04.5

Netflix.

1:05.3

Netflix.

1:05.7

So we need to talk about Netflix's new Dr. Evil Goal.

1:09.7

One trillion dollars. You're to his Jacks doing the

1:14.2

pinky thing. But yet is, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Whoa, what a mix of stories

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