🤓 “Ivy League-ish” — Harvard’s profit puppy. eBay’s all-time-high. Trickle Down AI-nomics. IBO = Initial Baby Offering.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Harvard’s biggest profit puppy? Executive Education… They’re stretching the Crimson to earn some cash.
eBay stock is (shockingly) at an all-time high… Because eBay now tracks “enthusiasm” as an official metric.
Microsoft is spending $120 billion this year on AI servers… with that $ it could buy all 30 NBA teams.
Plus, we’ve got an IBO announcement… an Initial Baby Offering.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, August 4th. 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. Jack, I ate a live shrimp. I ate a live shrimp. It was alive. Dude, that's horrifying. I would never do that. You know, they hand it to me. It was kind of |
| 0:21.0 | peer pressure. Everyone was looking to me at the restaurant. I kind of had to eat it. |
| 0:23.9 | Nick, the only thing that separates us from animals is we don't eat live prey. But you no longer |
| 0:30.1 | fall into that category. You can feel the muscles moving. It's kind of a fun flex. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, it is we got three fantastic stories for you for today's show. |
| 0:40.1 | Jack, what do we got on the TV boy? |
| 0:41.6 | For our first story, as Harvard battles attacks from Trump, it's leaning more on its secret profit puppy. |
| 0:47.8 | Executive education. |
| 0:49.3 | Because online courses are where the Ivy League crushes cash. |
| 0:53.9 | For our second story, guess whose stock is at an all-time high right now? |
| 0:58.0 | Who, Jack? |
| 0:58.6 | eBay. |
| 0:59.2 | eBay. |
| 1:00.1 | The 29-year-old e-commerce pioneer is stronger than ever. |
| 1:04.0 | It's the Tom Cruise of tech, Jack. |
| 1:06.1 | Because eBay tracks a wild metric, enthusiasm. |
| 1:10.2 | And our third and final story, Microsoft is spending enough money on AI data centers to buy |
| 1:16.2 | every single team in the NBA. |
| 1:18.8 | But every dollar they spend is a dollar someone else earns. |
| 1:22.3 | So Jack and I will tell you about that someone else. |
| 1:25.0 | But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:27.5 | Fantastic mixes stories. Love the mix today, Jack. Figuring. tell you about that to someone else. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories, |
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