This is a preview of this week's bonus episode available exclusively to subscribers of the corporate

gossip Patreon. This week we talk about Brian Nicol, the CEO of Starbucks and his last

ditch attempt to make us want to hang out in his coffee shops again. And for him, that means

threatening baristas to write on your cups and making sure they wear khakis again.

And then I talk about the sentencing of Charlie Javis.

I was in the courtroom when the Frank founder was sentenced to seven years and one month in prison.

Earlier this year, she was convicted of scamming J.P. Morgan out of $175 million

with her online college financial aid startup called Frank.

So I was in the courtroom earlier this week. I watched her give her statement. It was really

tearful. There was kind of a couple of interesting things that happened in the courtroom on Monday,

and so I report all about that. This podcast is made possible from support by listeners like you through our Patreon.

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This quarter, we're talking about Wonder Boy, which is the book about Tony

Shea, the late founder of Zappos. Everybody on the chat who's reading the book right now is as

blown away as I was by this book. There are so many twists and turns. Our first book club is going

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able to join us and talk about this crazy book. Okay, here's a preview of the episode.

Honestly, the last time I was in a Starbucks was probably 2021. I mean, it's been a long time. I don't really go out of my

way to go there. And I think it's actually kind of insane that we decided to do an episode,

a Patreon episode on Starbucks. We decided to do this a couple weeks ago, having no clue that yesterday there would be

a huge announcement that would blow up Reddit in the way that it did.

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