🐔 “Non-Chicken Content” — Chick-fil-A enters streaming. Disney’s CEO makeover. America’s colorless cars.

🐔 “Non-Chicken Content” — Chick-fil-A enters...

Up next

🧔🏻 “The Beard Cup” — World Cup man-fluencing. Prime Day trick-or-treat. Napa’s AI Spa. + T-Rex Handbags

The World Cup is the super bowl of male grooming… and Lionel Messi is leaning into it.Amazon Prime Day begins tomorrow… here’s how to not get tricked by faux-deals.Blackstone acquired a spa in Napa Valley… because there’s AI data on the massage table.Plus, dinosaur leather is her ...  Show more

🍦 “Banana Split” — Interview with Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen

For years, our entrepreneurial spirit animal has been Ben & Jerry… And now we get to sit down with Ben (the Ben) of Ben & Jerry. A guy who got his business start by making up numbers (literally).This hippie launched the biggest ice cream brand in America with his best friend from ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)
Planet Money

Why do video game workers offer labor at a discount? How can you design a video game for blind and sighted players? Does that design have lessons for other industries?These and other questions about the business of video games answered in todays episode. The Indicator just wrappe ...  Show more

Introducing WeCrashed
WeCrashed

The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann believed he was going to change the world. Adam and his wife Rebekah had a prophet-like vision—but di ...  Show more

Two Indicators: the influencer industry
Planet Money

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut, a doctor or maybe a famous athlete? Today one of the most popular responses to that question is influencer – content creators who grow their following on Tik Tok, Instagram and YouTube and monetize that ...  Show more

"Based on a true story"
Planet Money

When a group of amateur investors rallied around the stock for GameStop back in 2021, the story blew up the internet. News outlets around the world, including us here at Planet Money, rushed in to explain why the stock for this retail video game company was suddenly skyrocketing, ...  Show more