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More celebrity brands are failing.
Adidas is set to lose $200M on Beyoncé’s Ivy Park this year. That's on top of a $1.3B loss from Yeezy.
What went wrong? In order to work, a celeb brand needs to get three things right:
We need to get away from Big Food, and the only way to do so is to invest in local food chains.
That's why I'm super bullish on tools, marketplaces, and software that makes it easy to do so.
"Shopify for local food" is so needed, and will be huge.
Apple's slow march to becoming a bank continues.
Apple will do BNPL and look at open banking transaction history and if someone has tried to apply for an Apple Card before.
@fintecheng @Kyle_McMearty @rexsalisbury Defi payment rails along with alternate payment credit systems will probably be more common.
Shared receipt data always works pretty easy too after the fact.
Who will build the financial plumbing to allow $750B of annual medicaid spend to start flowing into the grocery market?
Will need sku level data, POS integrations, card integrations and much much more!
Starting in 2014, I logged the price of every slice of pizza I ate in NYC. Almost 500 slices later, the results are in. Check it out here: https://t.co/uKmyBoBx87
Amex has an incredible business model.
Convinced tech + finance professionals to pay $695/year in fees for a metal credit card, which grants you the luxury experience of waiting 45 minutes to get into a crowded airport lounge at 7:25am with bad coffee and free newspapers.
even despite all my optimism things are progressing faster than I expected. one thing I wasn’t expecting is how good they got at chit chatting. we r gonna be augmenting/replacing roles like tutor, therapist, counselor sooner rather than later
Really wild to me that outside of baby food subscriptions that are no food shopping sites that you are allowed to use a pretax FSA or HSA account as an automatic payment method.
This is even if you have a clinically diagnosed or clinically supported allergen/diet condition.
On our digital “food” wallet:
What if there was a way to progressively maximize your spending power for sustainably focused food?
What if there was a simple solution to help you deal with painful inflation and the challenge to get high quality products at a reasonable price?
Further, our tokenized rewards will make eating healthily and sustainably truly exciting and fun as people can engage in personalized challenges and receive appreciating benefits (and unique perks) as our ecosystem grows.