📹 “The Next TikTok” — Whatnot’s $5B shop app. Nvidia’s uranium problem. Sonos’ CEO oopsie.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
TikTok will be banned in 5 days… but its replacement is Whatnot: It’s Instagram + eBay + MTV.
Sonos is known for its fancy sounds systems… but the CEO just quit because of 1 big mistake.
Nvidia chips have export restrictions… because in the AI arms race, chips are the new uranium.
Plus, the #1 candy in America was invented by a frog salesman… It’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and it’s the next episode of our weekly deepdive show The Best Idea Yet 🥜
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, January 14th. The 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. Stocks are up, Bitcoin's down, and Jack's trying to pull off some kind of flannel situation over there. I do look like Bob Vila over here. I like what you're working with. |
| 0:21.8 | You're going to build us a home, build us a podcast studio? |
| 0:24.1 | What's working with it? |
| 0:25.3 | I like it. |
| 0:25.9 | Measure twice, cut once. |
| 0:28.0 | Honestly, I think it'll look fantastic. |
| 0:29.6 | But yeties, we've got three fantastic stories for today's show. |
| 0:33.0 | Jack, what's on today's tea boy? |
| 0:34.9 | For our first story, barring a Supreme Court intervention, TikTok will be banned in five days. |
| 0:40.2 | Five days? |
| 0:40.9 | But there's already a new replacement called What Not. |
| 0:43.4 | What Not! Yeti's, What Not is the new app you gotta know. |
| 0:46.8 | It's Instagram meets eBay, meets MTV. |
| 0:49.9 | For our second story, Invidio stock fell after a new role from the White House about what |
| 0:54.3 | countries can buy its chips. |
| 0:55.9 | Because AI chips are the new uranium. |
| 0:58.9 | And our third and final story is Sonos. |
| 1:01.8 | Sonos is known for the fancy sound system at your parents' second house. |
| 1:05.3 | But the CEO of Sonos was just fired for making one huge mistake. |
| 1:10.6 | But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, that was a cliffhanger, but three fantastic stories, Jack. |
| 1:17.3 | Love the mix today. |
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