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Ryan Hawk says the Beatles were afraid to play their own music and started by copying others verbatim
On Young and Profiting, Hawk turns the Beatles into a permission slip for early-career imitation, with one giant warning label attached.
Chris Riccobono says tariffs pulled $9 million from UNTUCKit’s bank account
The UNTUCKit founder turned an advice episode into a grim little postcard from the new retail math.
Chuck Surack says Sweetwater sales engineers can make nearly $500,000 a year in Fort Wayne
The Sweetwater founder’s best argument against Amazon is not nostalgia for phone calls, it is a sales job that looks more like a paid residency for music gear obsessives.
Nick Hanauer says Bernie Sanders's 50 percent AI ownership plan is common sense, not socialism
On The Diary of a CEO, the venture capitalist made the capitalist case for grabbing a public slice of AI wealth before the layoff machine starts printing money.
Ian Dunlap says McDonald's biggest competitor is Eli Lilly, not Burger King or Chipotle
On Market Mondays, Dunlap made the case that appetite-suppressing drugs are now part of the fast food bear case.
Curt Richardson says OtterBox revenue fell after a $1.1 billion peak, but profit rose
The OtterBox founder gave the rare founder update that actually explains what happens after a breakout product becomes boring.
Susan Griffin-Black says EO Products went from a $30,000 packaging account to owing $2 million after COVID sanitizer whiplash
The EO Products founder turned a sanitizer surge into a warning about the ugly math behind sudden growth.
Joey Shamah says a fake Bloomingdale's buyout rumor sent e.l.f. from 300 orders a week to 18,000 a day
The e.l.f. co-founder says the strangest growth hack in the brand's history was not a hack at all, just a chain email, a price panic, and a logistics nightmare.
Elizabeth Stone says Netflix needs fewer narrow specialists and more systems thinkers in the AI era
Netflix’s CPTO argues that AI makes cross-functional judgment more valuable than one-lane expertise, though she’s not ready to throw engineering, design, or data science craft into the volcano.
Aman Narang says Toast's revenue fell over 90 percent during COVID before it cut 55 percent of staff
The Toast CEO's survival story is a reminder that being essential software for restaurants is fantastic right up until restaurants are legally unable to be restaurants.
Ronnen Harary says Spin Master became too rigid after he stopped being co-CEO
The PAW Patrol co-founder’s most revealing advice was not for a caller, it was the quiet admission that a hit-making toy company can get housebroken.
The Twenty Minute VC hosts say Britain’s £300 million elite tennis pipeline has produced almost no champions
The episode’s best point is not that Jannik Sinner is ruthless, it’s that Italy’s club-heavy tennis system makes Britain’s expensive elite pipeline look weirdly barren.
Krishna Kaliannan says he first coated Catalina Crunch cereal in a washing machine
The Catalina Crunch founder's weirdest manufacturing hack is also the cleanest explanation of why making a modern keto cereal is much harder than making a pitch deck.
Tom Ellsworth says IBM has 135,000 employees in India and only 40,000 in the U.S.
The PBD panel treated IBM’s brutal earnings reaction less like a bad quarter and more like a warning light for a company that may have outsourced its identity.
Jeni Britton says seed oil panic is too fad-like to build a frozen-fry brand around
The Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams founder told a beef-tallow fries startup to sell taste first, not online wellness panic.
Kenneth Cole says wholesale won't build your brand if you don't own the customer relationship
On How I Built This, Cole gave a very department-store-era warning to modern founders: revenue through retailers can look like momentum while quietly leaving the brand in someone else's hands.
Tom Rinks says he would have settled the Taco Bell Chihuahua lawsuit for $200,000 before a $30.1 million jury award
Before Sun Bum became a sunscreen juggernaut, Rinks says Taco Bell could have ended the Chihuahua fight for a fraction of what a jury later awarded.
Jeremy Grantham says investors should wish SpaceX fails because success would supercharge AI robots
The billionaire investor gives Steven Bartlett the rare anti-hype SpaceX take, then tells him his own stake may be sitting on a bubble story.
Natalie Dawson says you should not think about passive income until you have $1 million in the bank
The business operator’s blunt advice on The Diary of a CEO is useful, if a little too clean for the messy reality of getting rich.
Noam Segal says tech workers fear doing more for the same pay more than losing their jobs to AI
The AI job panic has been sold as a robot replacement story, but Segal's survey says the more immediate fear is much more office Slack: congratulations, your output just became your new quota.
Caleb Hammer says Gen Z is doom spending because algorithms make the future feel hopeless
The personal-finance YouTuber argues that young people are spending like the apocalypse is already on layaway, and he’s mostly right, with one big caveat.
Mike Rowe says China built 1,000 ships last year while America built three
The Dirty Jobs host turns a shipbuilding stat into a warning about welders, electricians, student debt, and America’s bad habit of treating trade work like a consolation prize.
Ben Felix says young people saving money in their 20s is probably a financial mistake
The Canadian portfolio manager and YouTuber has the research to back it up, and a caveat that could save you from using it as an excuse.
Jeremy Grantham says US stocks may not recover for 20 years and Wall Street knows it
The veteran investor who called the 2000 and 2008 crashes says a 70% decline in US tech stocks would not be unexpected, and your financial advisor will never warn you.
Nick Hanauer Comes to Yell About Neoliberalism and He's Not Wrong
The venture capitalist and self-described 'pitchfork-avoider' spends an hour telling a table of entrepreneurs that everything they believe about small business is right, and everything they believe about how to get there is wrong.
Tara LaFerrara Built a Million-Dollar Fitness Business by Refusing to Be Perfect
The Broads founder on coaching funnels, a $130,000 app failure, and why 'do the cringe thing' is actually a business strategy.
Benjamin Hardy Says You're Measuring Yourself Wrong, and He Has the Viktor Frankl Story to Prove It
The organizational psychologist behind 'The Gap and the Gain' explains why hitting your goals might make you feel worse, and what Mr. Beast figured out at 17 that most adults never do.
Jessie Inchauspé Says Your Breakfast Is Why You Feel Terrible by 10 a.m.
The Glucose Goddess on sugar crashes, aging like a chicken in an oven, and why orange juice is basically a can of Coke.
David Bach's $27.40 Sermon Is Both Simple and Incomplete, Which Is Exactly the Point
The 'Automatic Millionaire' guy brought a brick of cash to London and made a very clean argument for a very messy reality.
Ex-Google Insider Mo Gawdat Says Your Job Has About Three Years
The former Google X chief business officer comes to The Diary of a CEO with a countdown clock and a dim view of Sam Altman's recent pivot to optimism.