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454 WSJ celebrated Burger King’s 8.5% growth, but doesn’t get BK’s Category Design is still broken | The Pirate Street Journal
The business world was buzzing when Burger King posted 8.5% same-store sales growth in the US, beating McDonald’s by the widest margin in at least two years. Meanwhile, Wendy’s dropped 7%, losing its number two spot in American fast food. But is this turnaround as impressive as the headlines suggest? Through the lens of category…
453 How To Talk To Your Parents About Money Before It’s Too Late | Category Pirates
Money is one of the most emotionally charged topics in any family, yet it is also one of the most important conversations we often avoid. Many adult children discover too late that their parents have made significant financial decisions without any guidance, leaving families scrambling to fix problems that could have been prevented. Whether it…
452 Zuckerberg Is Spending $600 Billion To Buy The One Thing That Was Never For Sale | The Pirate Street Journal
The business world is obsessed with who has the biggest AI model, the fastest chips, and the most impressive benchmarks. But the real question shaping the next decade of technology is not about computing power. It is about trust. Meta recently made headlines when Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto outlining his vision for democratizing…
451 The US Economy Counter Factual, How to Make Your Kids Rich & More | DisruptTV
Most mainstream media outlets have spent the last several years convincing Americans that a recession is either here or just around the corner. But according to tech analyst Ray Wang and category design pioneer Christopher Lochhead, the real story about the US economy looks very different from what we are being fed. In a recent…
450 Chili’s Is Up 500% Since 2022 Betting On Basic Tech | The Pirate Street Journal
Most business coverage focuses on companies, products, and technologies. Rarely does anyone ask the more important question: what is actually happening inside the market category that makes a business win or lose? The Pirate Street Journal exists to answer exactly that question. On this episode, Christopher, Eddie, and Bri unpacked three stories that expose how…
449 Google’s Free Cash Flow Went Negative For The First Time. Does it matter with $242 billion in cash? | The Pirate Street Journal
On this episode of The Pirate Street Journal on Chistopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, the trio tackled three major business stories that mainstream financial media fumbled. From Google’s record-breaking quarter to AI disrupting the legal industry and a historic merger of black-owned banks, the conversation offered a perspective that most financial journalists simply miss because…
448 Mid-term Madness, Oprah or George Clooney Running For President? with Political Pollster & Advisor Lee Hartley Carter
Political strategist and pollster Lee Hartley Carter recently joined us at the Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different podcast to share her sharp insights on the current American political landscape. As the founder of Carter Intelligence Group and author of “Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter,” Lee Hartley Carter brings a rare combination…
447 Niching Down on Weird Data with AI Solves Ice Cream, Movies, and Power Bottlenecks | The Pirate Street Journal
We are living through a fundamental shift in how businesses operate, compete, and create value. The Pirate Street Journal, hosted by Christopher, Eddie, and Bri, breaks down three major business stories through the category design lens, revealing a common thread that most mainstream business coverage misses entirely. That thread is AI data, and how the…
446 Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math That Schools Won’t Teach You with Ted Dintersmith
Ted Dintersmith, legendary venture capitalist and education advocate, joins Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different again to talk about his new book “After Math: The Life-Changing Math That Schools Won’t Teach You.” With decades of experience at Charles River Ventures and years spent championing education reform, Ted Dintersmith brings a refreshing and urgent perspective on why…
445 Count Your Blessings and Your Burdens When It Comes to Data Centers, Price Increases and Careers | The Pirate Street Journal
The Pirate Street Journal takes a sharp look at business through the category design lens, and this episode delivers three stories that reveal how the decisions made today will define economic winners and losers for decades. From data center legislation in New York to Apple raising prices and a Costco cashier becoming a millionaire, each…
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