Why is it that no one wants to see a hot guy succeed?!!!?

This is the story of the three best friends, lead by Bell Air Boy Boss Sean Rad. They created Tinder and became the coolest millennials in LA, hosting parties with Jason Derulo and Kristen Doute and preparing their bank accounts for an influx of cash after being acquired by Match.com. But it's hard to read the fine print on a legal document by the light of a glow-stick! And while they were partying, Barry Diller was scheming from his megayacht. Soon, their viral app would be swiped from under them.

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10:00 - Intro

23:30 - Corporate Gossip #1: Here, put on this bedsheet and gladiator sandals, we're going to a COLLEGE TOGA PARTY!! FOR BUSINESS!!

37:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: Business daddy issues

46:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: Tinder founders - "we're stupid, BUT we're also sexual harassers, (allegedly)"

51:30 - Corporate Gossip #4: Nanci Jo Sales strikes

56:30 - Corporate Gossip #5: The VC urge to give a bunch of 20 somethings a million dollars and no oversight

1:04:00 - Corporate Gossip #6: Literally Match I Double dog dare you to find someone to be CEO who isn't a dumb creep

1:12:25 - Corporate Gossip #7: Nasty Grams from Blatt

1:15:00 - Corporate Gossip#8: Follow up & Takeaways

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'Sodomy' and scandal: Tinder's thoroughly embarrassing stock-market debut

A Tinder Revenge Story The revolutionary dating app made a lot of people rich. Co-founder Sean Rad didn't feel rich enough.

An Open Letter to Tinder's Sean Rad from V.F.'s Nancy Jo Sales

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The CEO of tech company Astronomer was caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling with the head of HR in a video that has since gone mega-viral. And SUDDENLY everyone is interested in what I thought was a niche topic - CEOs behaving badly!!

In this emergency episode, I review the latest in the Astronomer scandal and recap my favorite executive cheating scandals that we've covered on the podcast.

Correction: In an earlier version of this epiosde, I said Friends and ER were on CBS. They were not, they were on NBC. I also said Rupert Murdoch's wife was "Jerry Halloway" not "Jerry Hall." That's because I'm a millenial and I'm always thinking about the Spice Girls.

Timestamps:

00:00 Astronomer

07:25 - Kevin Plank (Under Armour)

13:30 - Sergey Brin (Google)

20:00 - Les Moonves (CBS)

24:30 - SBF (FTX)

26:00 - Jack Welch (GE)

27:20 - Rupert Murdoch (NewsCorp / Fox News)

I also touch on Dov Charney (American Apparel), Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie), The Insys Sales Reps, and Vince McMahon (WWE)

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This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation

Audubon chapter rejects offer from The Hartford to reinstate coverage

BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinstate coverage, the Audobon chapter told the company to kick rocks!

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We wrap up this absolute UNIT of a two part episode by examining the Facebook story by stepping into our proverbial blue sequined rompers and seeing the world behind Mark Zuckberg's baby bangs. BUCKLE UP as Becca and Adam try to figure out - did the accumulation of unchecked power and extraordinary wealth over 20 years take ice cream scoops out of Mark Zuckerberg's brain? OR did his unique position on top of business boy mountain give him the freedom to reveal the curly-haired gremlin that was always hiding within??

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The Zuckerberg Files

It's Time to Break Up Facebook

How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook's War to Crush Google Plus

Mark Zuckerberg Apparently Didn't Tell Congress the Whole Truth About Facebook

An Ugly Truth

Careless People

Good News: Inside a Union's Fight Against Trump's Federal Job Cuts

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05:00 - Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate

15:00 AI Is Making Us Dumber. Shocker.

22:30 The group chats that changed America

32:30

• Sperm racing in LA: Inside the first-of-its-kind race that's taking the internet by storm

• Sperm racing instagram page

• Don't Die Tech Mogul Bryan Johnson Is in an Actual Penis-Measuring Contest—With His Teenage Son

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If Sheryl Sandberg & Mark Zuckerberg never encountered one another at a Christmas party in Atherton in 2007 would the world have been a better place? Find out as we go ALLL the way back and trace the story of Sheryl Sandberg's Dr. Frankenstein and her Mark Zuckerberg monster.

Was there sexual tension between the two of them (no one explicitly has said that but I PICKED UP ON A FEW THINGS!)??. Were either of them good people who were corrupted? Or were they destined to seek power and destroy once they reached the top? What about now? Do they feel ashamed about the lives they've destroyed, directly or indirectly? Do they hate themselves more than we could ever hate them? Are there ANY heroes in this story at all? What do you think?!

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Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook's Meta

"When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullshit": The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg

An Ugly Truth

Careless People

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PLUS!

23&Me files for Bankruptcy and Anne Wojcicki's identity crisis, Zuckerberg Streisanding himself, an end to restaurant reservation scalping, and Becca's reflections on getting laid off.

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23andMe bankruptcy filing sparks privacy fears as DNA data of millions goes up for sale

Delete your data from 23&Me

Mark Zuckerberg Just Taught a Master Class in How Not to Handle a Crisis

Careless People discussion on Glamorous Trash

Bon Appetit! Governor Hochul Signs Legislation Cracking Down on the ‘Black Market’ for Restaurant Reservations

US judge sets Boeing 737 MAX fraud trial for June 23

Dominic Gates, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the Seattle Times

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The jury is now deliberating! What do you think? Guilty or Not Guilty?

At the closing arguments of US vs. Charlie Javice, aka the Jose Baez oral rollercoaster. WEEE!!! Highlights include:

• The Monopoly Man is ACTUALLY J.P. Morgan

• Jamie Dimons "widdle baby" defense

• A scorned bank employee hopes to save bank daddies reputation

• As always, hyper realistic drawings that bring you into the belly of the lower Manhattan District Courthouse

In 2007, the mecca of hipster paradise was the Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. Etsy epitomized elder-millennial quirk with a sprinkle of digital delusion, and no one personified the vibes quite like their CEO and founder, Rob Kalin.

But while Kalin and his friends were building a crafters utopia, a ruthless venture capitalist had another plan for the company: destroy it from the inside out and get SUPER rich doing it.

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Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Cake, and Eat It Too

Etsy Was a Twee Culture Punchline. Now It's a Wall Street Darling.

Etsy CEO says company is escaping 'race to the bottom' and getting back to its artisan roots