Dark Mode with John Coyle

At 15 Years Old Jason Wong was a Cook in his mother's Chinese restaurant.

He went from meme pages to millions of followers to an ecommerce product drop to a successful exit to the fastest growing brand on TikTok.

Then he went silent - too burnt out to continue.

Today we're doing a problem solver episode, where we lay out some of the problems we're having then solve them together.

Along the way Jason tells me his incredible story.

Chapters:

00:00 Who is Jason Wong

00:30 Explaining This Video

00:50 Jason's Problems

02:20 John's Problems

03:17 Solving John's Problem

31:05 Founder Burnout

35:33 32 Million Follower Blog Empire

38:56 T-shirts, Memes and Coloring Books

46:00 $500 to $10+ Million

51:30 Getting Burned Out

55:45 Coming Back

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Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show about ecommerce where puns go to die.

This week, John and Ethan discuss:

📧 Klaviyo Professional Services

📱 Is Meta broken?

👟 Footlocker: Harbinger of death

+more.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:52 Is Meta Broken?

04:38 Foot Locker’s Disappointing Earnings

09:51 TB12 Sports

12:57 Chamberlain Coffee

17:19 Talentless

19:55 Seek Discomfort

22:46 Full Send

25:11 Crunch Labs

26:50 The Johnologue: Klaviyo Professional Services

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Today's guest is the founder of the Barrel Aged Amazon agency Jake Stanislawski.

Jake shares his best stories from just now realizing he's homeless to selling to nipple pasties on Amazon, and more.

Since Jake is the man when it comes to selling on Amazon, I decided to put eras of Jeff's fits into a tier list with him.

Enjoy!

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Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show about ecommerce where puns go to die.

This week, John and Ethan discuss:

🍫 Billionaires stocking shelves

🆒 Brand as differentiator for undifferentiated products

👛 Ridge x MKBHD

+ more.

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Timestamps

00:44 The Whalies by Triple Whale

01:13 Mr. Beast Restocking Retail Shelves

04:46 Hostage Tape - Old idea, New spin

09:22 What’s the P in Pinterest?

Rapidfire

13:48 CoinBase Wins Liquid Death Ad Auction

15:35 First Human Neuralink Implant

17:01 NFL’s Big Season

18:30 Reddit Strikes Deal with Google

19:47 The End of Stanley Cups

21:33 Target’s new budget brand

23:15 Taco Bell’s Keynote

The Johnologue

24:28 Ridge Strikes Partnership with MKBHD

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Today I'm talking to Scott Boulis. 

Scott has been making money on viral products for the past decade. 

From being one of the first team members at Teespring to getting sued for a meme product - Scott has stories.

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Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show where we don't give you business advice but do tell you what's happening in and around ecommerce.

This week, John and Ethan discuss:

🤖 Mark Zuckerberg vs. Apple Vision Pro 

🍫 Creator-led brands (Feastables says goodbye to DTC) 

🌿 Benchmarking Brēz 

+ more.

Finally, we end the episode with The Johnologue™, where John does a Super Bowl ad retro.

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Chapters

0:00 The Whalies Giveaway

1:59 Zuck vs Apple Vision Pro

7:03 Feastables quit DTC + other creator-led brand moves

11:59 Reviewing Brēz’s January performance against food & bev benchmarks

19:01 This week’s DTC news

28:28 The Johnologue: Reviewing the best & worst Super Bowl ads

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Today I'm putting Super Bowl ads into a tier list with Daniel Murray, the founder of @themarketingmillennials .

Daniel actually played college football with Travis and Jason Kelce, so we get into some Kelce bros stories. 

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Timestamps

00:00 Tier List of Super Bowl Ads

01:02 Temu

05:40 Daniel's dream product

09:25 Michael Cera Cerave

13:46 Travis & Jason Kelce Stories

18:28 Kanye Yeezy Store

24:15 Building a 7-Figure Media Company

30:13 Bud Light

36:40 Tips For Getting Over 1 Million Followers

47:05 Ben Affleck Dunkin' Donuts

53:15 Honorable Mention

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Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show where we don't give you business advice but do tell you what's happening in and around ecommerce.

This week, in our second episode, John and Ethan discuss:

🥂 The Taylor Swift Industrial Complex™️

💻 A Browser that Browses... for you?

🏈 Super Bowl ads (note: pre-Super Bowl takes)

Followed by an industry CAC quiz & more. Finally, we round out our inaugural episode with The Johnologue™, where John goes deep on the Apple Vision Pro.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:06 Taylor Swift Industrial Complex

5:35 Super Bowl Ad Strategies

11:08 The Browser That Browses For You

15:39 2024 Customer Acquisition Cost Quiz

22:30 The Johnologue™️: Apple Vision Pro

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Today I'm sitting down with @CardinalMason .

He's made multiple millions of dollars at only 24 years old, and he has talked to hundreds of people who currently have very little and are trying to make money. 

He's identified 4 levels of money. that we'll cover. 

We also talk about the mindset that keeps people broke.

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Today I'm sitting down with Nick Shackelford. 

Nick is a serial entrepreneur who has five businesses that do multiple millions of dollars in revenue. 

Today I'm talking about his decision to launch ANOTHER business last year, why he became a legal drug dealer, whether people should focus on multiple things or just one thing, and more. 

===Chapters===

0:00 - A Legal Drug Dealer

02:53 - All of Nick's Businesses

04:40 - Launching Brez

09:12 - Human Optimization Trend

10:58 - Nick's Advantage

13:37 - The Drink Wave

17:30 - How Many Brez To Get High?

23:00 - Nick Share's Real Time Revenue

26:17 - Nick Created the Fidget Spinner Trend

31:37 - Quitting Alchohol

34:16 - How Nick Runs 5 Businesses

39:17 - Is Focus Overrated?

41:05 - Nick Shares his Weekly Calendar

46:48 - $10 Million YouTube Channel Idea

51:10 - What Would He Stop?

52:52: - The Brez Pitch

54:10 - Would You Rather But It's a Celebrity Collab

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