Since this Prez Day holiday is the behemoth of ski weekends, here’s the 🔑 to having a 10/10 time on the slopes:

• Dress in layers.

• Load up your torso pockets with chewable fruits.

• Don’t wear a ski mask, you’ll alarm people.

• If the sun’s shining, keep those pit zips open.

• Don’t have a gaper gap. You’re welcome.

This week’s edition is 35% of the best of the pod and 65% things we had to share off the record. 

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Worth sharing:

Vail Mountain Resorts has data on over 22 million US skiers and controls 37% of the North American ski market. If you’re french-frying down a mountain, odds are it’s owned by Vail Inc.

From last week:

30% of Yetis consider 10+ chicken wings a serving, and OMG nearly half of confessed they couldn’t name more than one Usher song (data was gathered pre-Bowl). Yeah!

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• ⛷️⛷️ Vail Resorts: Despite record low snow, Vail’s enjoying record high revenues — And it’s all thanks to the $9B company’s ski subscription: The # of Epic Pass holders has doubled since 2019 to 2.4M skiers & boarders. (fyi Jack’s skiing VT this weekend, Nick hit Sundance, UT).

• 🪶 Robinhood: Surged 16% last week (up 60% since November) after announcing its 2nd ever profit. Assets held in Robinhood accounts jumped 65% from last year, even while the # of active users on RH has fallen in ½ from its all-time high.

• 🍺 Molson Coors: Snagged even more market share from Bud and thinks the shift to Coors Light is permanent. More drinkers are jumping on the chill train.

• 🔺 Nvidia: The computer chip stock is now the #3 most valuable company in America after its market cap passed both Amazon & Alphabet last week.

via Nick’s Apple Notes

Great inventors are great marketers. The steam engine inventor also invented the concept of horsepower. - Rory Sutherland

• The Right to Disconnect: Australia’s Senate passed a bill giving citizens the right to ignore their bosses after 5pm. That Sunday morning email from Carole in Accounting = Illegal.

• AI Bed Bug Detection: A new device the size of a card deck uses Artificial Intelligence sensors to find bugs — Because just 1 bed bug reference in a review sinks a hotel room’s price by 38% on avg.

• The Clementine Test: Women are testing their SOs by asking them to peel an orange on TikTok — The litmus test for whether partners are willing to do small acts of service. #LoveLanguage

"American Symphony" on Netflix. It’s a doc on Jon Batiste (Grammy winner and leader of Stephen Colbert's band) — He doesn't let himself be categorized by a genre. Watch this movie and you feel like you’re inside his creative mind.

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• The Name-storm King: 1 company came up with the name for all these companies: Sonos, Subaru Outback, Febreze, Swiffer, Impossible Foods, Adobe, Xbox Live, BlackBerry, Dasani, & Homewood Suites.

• Free tonight? 46% of Americans report being single as of last year, and that number is growing according to the US Census. It’s all about the SINKs (single income no kids).

• Call me old-school: Gen Z is bringing back the landline telephone because “I love to twirl the cord.” Respect.

What’s the picture in the background of the TBOY logo? Hint: Warren Buffet has one.

• 22% = The percentage of Millennials who go into debt because of dating.

• 1 of 4 = The fraction of married couples in the US who met at work, according to Bamboo HR.

• 4pm-6pm = The hot new rez. The number of dinner reservations in the Early Bird time-slot has doubled since 2019, according to Yelp.

• 🍫 > 🦞 = A pound of chocolate now costs more than a pound of lobster after cocoa prices surged 40% last month on West Africa supply issues.

• Most expensive typo ever: Shares of Lyft surged 60% on Wednesday, but it was all because of an accidental extra zero in the earnings report. Big oops. The stock still ended up 30% after the correction.

• Philly’s finest: Wawa, the fan-loved convenience store is expanding its hoagies south for the 1st time.

• Goggle-off: Zuck reviewed Apple’s rival headset, the Vision Pro, and posted the homemade vid on his Instagram. Spoiler: He said his headset is better.

• 4th Place: Japan’s economy unexpectedly shrank, falling from #3 in the world to #4. The USA is #1 by far, then China, now Germany, then Japan.

• For the underdog: “In some industries, the big guy doesn’t hurt the little guy.”

• For office Romeos: “LinkedIn Dating works because love loves work.“

• For people-pleasers: “You can’t be a people-pleaser with relationships or products”

• Holidays: President’s Day (stock market’s closed on Monday).

• Business: Nvidia, Walmart, Home Depot, Nestle, and Intuit release earnings.

• Life: People’s Choice Awards hosted by Simon Liu (the actor who played Shang-Chi) is Monday on Peacock.

• Sports: It’s NBA All-Star weekend, but we’re focused on the Slam Dunk contest (Vincanity happened 22 years ago, fyi).

Monday: 🥽 “Mickey’s Metaverse” — Disney’s Fortnite investment. Build-A-Bear’s adults-only website. America’s new trade bestie.

Tuesday:  🪩 “Thriller” — Michael Jackson’s record sale. Dunkin’s #1 commercial. Waymo’s burned taxi.

Wednesday: ❤️‍🔥 “We met on LinkedIn” — LinkedIn is the unofficial dating app. Beyonce’s country music pivot. The Right to Disconnect law in Australia.

Thursday: ⛷️ “The Ski-conomy” — Vail Resorts vs Independent mountains. Lyft’s $3B typo. Walmart’s Vizio TV acquisition.

Friday: BONUS 🫶 “The Love Pod” - 3 Business stories that are really Love stories.

The Answer: It’s Squishmallows. The popular plush toys are a new adult craze, and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway happens to own the company. And this week, they sued Build-A-Bear for their new Skooshers toy line.

And one more thing. Best downhill mountain in America. Who ya got? Hit us up with a quick reply.

Celebrate the wins this long weekend 🙌 🙌

—Nick & Jack