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🐭 “WaltGPT” — Disney’s OpenAI deal. SpaceX’s $1 Trillion IPO. Savannah Bananas Interview. +Waymo backseat baby

22 min episode · 2 min read
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Jesse Cole,Emily Cole

Episode

22 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Career Growth, Relationships, Investing

AI-Generated Summary

Key Takeaways

  • IP Strategy Shift: Disney licenses 200 characters to OpenAI for ChatGPT and Sora video generation, reversing its aggressive IP protection stance to avoid repeating music labels' Napster mistake of winning legal battles but losing market control.
  • Brand Loyalty Test: SpaceX operates a merchandise store where non-employees wear branded apparel, demonstrating consumer affinity strong enough to support expansion into wireless phone services competing against AT&T and Verizon without existing customer relationships.
  • Innovation Velocity: Savannah Bananas runs 10-15 new promotional experiments per game across six teams, generating 150 brand new concepts weekly compared to traditional sports teams repeating the same fireworks and bobblehead giveaways annually.
  • Fandom Formula: Building customer loyalty requires five steps: eliminate friction from customer experience, entertain constantly, experiment with new concepts daily, engage deeply with individual fans, and empower team members to test ideas outside comfort zones.

What It Covers

Disney strikes a billion-dollar deal with OpenAI to license 200 characters for AI-generated content. SpaceX plans the largest IPO in history at $1.5 trillion valuation. Savannah Bananas founders share their sports disruption strategy.

Key Questions Answered

  • IP Strategy Shift: Disney licenses 200 characters to OpenAI for ChatGPT and Sora video generation, reversing its aggressive IP protection stance to avoid repeating music labels' Napster mistake of winning legal battles but losing market control.
  • Brand Loyalty Test: SpaceX operates a merchandise store where non-employees wear branded apparel, demonstrating consumer affinity strong enough to support expansion into wireless phone services competing against AT&T and Verizon without existing customer relationships.
  • Innovation Velocity: Savannah Bananas runs 10-15 new promotional experiments per game across six teams, generating 150 brand new concepts weekly compared to traditional sports teams repeating the same fireworks and bobblehead giveaways annually.
  • Fandom Formula: Building customer loyalty requires five steps: eliminate friction from customer experience, entertain constantly, experiment with new concepts daily, engage deeply with individual fans, and empower team members to test ideas outside comfort zones.

Notable Moment

A woman delivered a baby in a Waymo self-driving taxi between traffic lights in San Francisco after the remote support team detected unusual backseat activity, prompting the company to remove the vehicle for deep cleaning.

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Episode Transcript

This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Friday, the real Friday, December 12, and today's pod is the best one yet. This, oh, this is a t boy. The top three pop is this news stories you need to know today. But first, Yetis, a fun update on our live tour. Jack, you wanna share the honors? All ages are welcome. A lot of you have asked if you can bring kids. The answer is yes. Yeah. We double checked with the venues and they just request that if you're under 18, you bring a parent with you. So Austin, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, we'd love to see you whether you're one year old or 100 years old. But if you're one year old, you gotta bring that 100 year old with you. Jack, three stories for today's team. What do we got on the show? For our first story, Disney just booked a $1,000,000,000 deal with OpenAI. OpenAI strikes back. Take that, Gemini. Sam Altman is heading to the Magic Kingdom who will tell you all about the trip. Second story, what do we got, Jack? Elon Musk confirmed this week that SpaceX is IPOing next year. It would be the biggest IPO in history. But besties, this SpaceX X IPO ain't about rocket ships. It's really about t shirts. And our third and final story. The Savannah Bananas have disrupted live sports with a new sport, banana ball. The cofounders are Jesse and Emily, and they're married, so we brought them both on today's pod. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories Woah. What a mix of stories to go into the weekend with. Love the mix, Jack. Waymo, the self driving car company, published a blog post this week titled delivering more for our riders. Jack, delivering was a very clever word choice, wasn't it, my friend? Yes. It was. Because it was about a woman who on Monday delivered a baby in the back seat of a waymark. They named the baby Serge. Good do it, guys. Run with it. A nine month pregnant woman in San Francisco went into labor on Monday. No Uber, no Lyft, so she hailed a Waymo robotaxi instead. But Waymo's remote rider support team noticed, and I quote, unusual activity in the back seats. And, Jack, that unusual activity wasn't contraction. That was a kid. True story. Yes. The baby was delivered inside the Waymo between traffic lights. It's self driving taxi with a self delivering baby. Not hands free driving, hands free delivery, literally. Now a quick update on the mother and the baby. They're both healthy. They're both safe, but they're not taking interviews right now. Apparently, the robo cabs still can't cut an umbilical cord, so they need it at the hospital. And the car? Yeah. They've taken it out of service to give it a good deep clean. But you know, besties, Jack and I once did a viral recording …

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