📕 “Hedge Fund University” — Harvard’s $2B battle. Coachella’s Payment Plans. Netflix’s $1 trillion plan.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 27 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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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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