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The Best One Yet

Panera joins the “Game of Scones,” Waste Management’s $5B acquisition, and Gogo inflight Wi-Fi surges 8%

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business News, Tech, News, Finance, Business, Pop Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

House Starbucks or House Dunkin’? Panera kicked the fast-food Breakfast Wars up a notch with its focus on coffee. Waste Management’s $5B acquisition highlights the business future of trash. And Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi’s 8% jump shows the company’s biggest potential and its giant challenge.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. This is Snacks daily. It is Tuesday. April 16th. And what did you think of this?

0:07.0

This is the best one yet served up for you Snacks style to be.

0:11.0

Oh, why now markets barely bunched. Goldman did poorly city bank did well. Markets were in between. Even it out.

0:17.0

It's nothing new. But we found three wild wild stories for you guys. I bet you've never heard stories about any of these three.

0:24.0

The first is Panera Bread. It is engaging in the breakfast game of Thrones wars. And it just kicked things up.

0:31.0

He was going to win. What are you thinking? Like Starbucks, House of Starbucks, House of Duncan. Who's going to win this thing?

0:36.0

House Panera for show. Second story is waste management. You dirty dog. You this trash disposal company just made its biggest acquisition ever.

0:45.0

A cool five billion dollars keeping it clean. Now by the way, if you've ever produced trash in your life, you're going to care about it.

0:51.0

Third and final story is GoGo. Yes. Infamous InFlight Wi-Fi company. It finally connected with investors for like the first time yesterday.

0:59.0

Except it's still got a like existential question. It has to answer. Speaking of existential, oh my god.

1:05.0

We got to talk about Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba. It's the three big numbers, 996, 996. He was asked by reporters about Alibaba's extreme overtime policy.

1:15.0

We're Chinese workers in the tech industry. Typically work 72 hours a week. We're talking 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for six days a week.

1:24.0

Jack Ma said 996 is a huge blessing. Whatever that means. It's the best thing that can happen to you because you start to enjoy your work more and then reap the benefits of it.

1:33.0

We're not into this idea. In fact, we want to go the other end of the spectrum from Jack Ma.

1:38.0

True. The three day weekend. And if your boss doesn't appreciate you proposing that, tell them it's not a three day weekend.

1:44.0

It's the four most productive days of the week. We got to institutionalize the three day weekend and combat this 9.9.6.

1:51.0

Jack Ma has done some incredible things. We're going to push back on this one slightly.

1:55.0

Four productive work days. Now before we hit the rest of our stories, listen to these important words.

2:15.0

For our first story, Penarid just revealed it's brand new breakfast strategy. The most important meal of the day.

2:35.0

It's so true. Jack is very judgmental. Like any great enterprise I have seized now. If you do not still cut your own nose, he is judging you.

2:43.0

In the winter, hot oats and hot coffee in the summer, cold oats, cold kai. I just put dates and everything and it works.

2:48.0

Now, we talked about the breakfast wars here for a second. We should. McDonald's stepped it up a notch. They just introduced their first new breakfast sandwich in five years.

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