📕 “Hedge Fund University” — Harvard’s $2B battle. Coachella’s Payment Plans. Netflix’s $1 trillion plan.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K 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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