🥽 “Mickey’s Metaverse” — Disney’s Fortnite investment. Build-A-Bear’s adults-only website. America’s new trade bestie.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
Fortnite, the world’s biggest video game, just got a whopping $1.5B investment from Disney — Because when it comes to innovation, evolution is easier than creation.
Build-A-Bear newest teddy bears are laughably for 18+ — It shows the power of the “Velvet Rope Effect.”
And America’s newest bestie? It’s Mexico — China has been replaced by Mexico as our top trading partner, so we’re going to break down friend-shoring, near-shoring, and re-shoring.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to the best one yet, ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wunderry Plus in the Wunderry app on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | The Global SmartWatch Industry is worth 45 billion dollars annually. |
| 0:13.0 | The Apple Watch is the undisputed bestseller, |
| 0:16.0 | but Apple's dominance wasn't always a given. |
| 0:19.0 | In the wake of Steve Jobs's death, |
| 0:21.0 | Samsung was ready to capitalize on the company's uncertain path |
| 0:26.0 | and beat Apple to market with the first smart watch. By 2013, Samsung had become an electronics powerhouse, a far cry from its humble origins as a family |
| 0:36.2 | grocery store. |
| 0:37.8 | It was ready to take on Silicon Valley's finest. |
| 0:41.7 | In this face-off, both companies will have to sway consumers while |
| 0:45.6 | surviving PR disasters as they open the Pandora's box of interactive biometrics. |
| 0:51.0 | Hi I'm David Brown, the host of Wundery Show Business Wars. |
| 0:55.0 | We go deep into some of the biggest corporate rivalries of all time, and in our latest season, |
| 0:59.8 | we're clocking the fierce battle over wearable technology between Apple and Samsung. |
| 1:05.1 | Make sure you follow Business Wars, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:08.4 | You can listen ad free on the Amazon Music or Wondery App. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm sorry, man. I don't know what my yawning is all about. |
| 1:16.0 | I've been working out really hard. |
| 1:18.0 | Full disclosure. |
| 1:19.0 | When you see me, dude, you're going to be like, whoa. |
| 1:21.0 | Whoa! |
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