The Best One Yet 🦄 “+1,500%” — Secret SpaceX Stock. Gap’s AI hoodie. Salt & Stone’s Nascar deodorant. +Jargon Bulls**tmeter.
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Mar 25, 2026 A deep dive into a VC fund that just surged after owning SpaceX and Anthropic. How Gap teamed up with Google to build a conversational AI checkout and hoodie FOMO around Sam Altman. The rise of Salt & Stone turning deodorant into a cult product. A look at Cornell’s Corporate Bullshit Scale and what liking jargon means for careers.
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Fluent Corporate Jargon Predicts Happiness Not Performance
- Cornell's Corporate BS Receptivity Scale finds workers who like fake corporate jargon are happier but perform worse.
- Recognizing and liking jargon correlates with job happiness yet negatively correlates with actual job performance.
Google Shipped Gemini While OpenAI Overpromised
- Google prioritized operational reliability over hype by quietly shipping Gemini-powered instant checkout with Gap.
- Jack contrasts that with OpenAI's pattern of loud announcements like Instant Checkout and Sora that later under-deliver or shut down.
Fundrise IPO Gave Retail Access To SpaceX And Anthropic
- Fundrise's new public VC fund IPO jumped from $19 to $319 in four days because it holds private stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX.
- Ben and Dan Miller used their family's access to buy into top private rounds and packaged those stakes into a fund retail investors can now buy.