Apple is God, AI girlfriends and building a company for the next generation
Jonathan Trimble
Co-Founder, CEO @ And Rising // Building the future's favourite brands
03.05.24 | Issue #7
Apple's iPhone sales have stalled, but earnings are up, so is the share price and they have more money than you can imagine. Newspapers are simultaneously suing and making deals with OpenAI. If you can't beat them, join them.
Sweetgreen starts selling meat and Skittles gets a brand refresh.
I am excited about the new consumer fund Intuition, even if it has the same douchy VC smell of 'never-built-anything but here to write cheques'. At least money is going into consumer brands.
My son asked me this week what I paid to go to University. Aged eleven, he let me know he didn't need a degree because he was going to take over my company. Riddled with fear, I got to thinking: What does building a company ready for a future generation look like?
Let's rise together with every issue. ??
Market Movements
FTSE at all-time high | Yahoo
UK is "Pulling out of recession" | The Guardian
Wall Street ends the week higher | Reuters
Brand Beat
Apple's update - it's big whilst stalling | Sky
Peloton's CEO steps down as company cuts 15% of workforce | The Guardian
Sweetgreen launches meat range with the line "Come hungry" | Instagram
Universal Music caves to TikTok | BBC
The full teardown on AI influencers | Slidebean
Lynx is the ad pick of the week with comedy spots | The Drum
Trending: Designer pool floats by Float Life | Thingtesting
Startup Spotlight
Chilean-based Movener raises to take hauling trucks hybrid | Latamlist
Female investors lead $14 million virtual wallets investment | Yahoo
领英推荐
Newsletter platform Beehiv buzzes with series B raise | Business Wire
Climate tech can't scale | TechCrunch
Ads for explicit AI girlfriends swarm Instagram | Wired
Tech Tidbits
8 daily newspapers sue Open AI and Microsoft | NY Times
Whilst Financial Times signs Open AI licensing deal | The Verge
Spotify goes B2B with new Backstage tech | TechCrunch
Google pays Apple billions to lock out rivals | Wired
Gen-Z is avoiding university to stay AI proof | Entrepreneur
Venture
Amazingly cool new consumer fund launches | TechCrunch
44% of startups rate their investors as useless | Sifted
Design Driven
Skittles gets a brand refresh | It's Nice That
Happiness
What does a Chief Happiness Officer do? | Financial Times
Three office-friendly breathing exercises | CNBC
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6 个月I think our children and their children will be able to start doing business at much earlier age. Kids grow up in a different way now, their brain grows up faster + they are born in the era of information and technologies. It’s neither good nor bad, it is what it is)?
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6 个月Could it be that it's a company that needs to be able to flex. We are sometimes very different to our children and don't know who they will be as they get older. However I think if I built something that I lived and breathed the values of the business and had built it from a place I believed to be good. I would hope that my children would be able to see that and take it forward in their own way, whatever that looked like in this ever changing world!