Group Chat
This is a show where friends – hilarious, opinionated friends who happen to be successful entrepreneurs, investors & operators – comment on all things business, culture, current events and whatever the hell else they want to talk about. From Kanye to Kavanaugh, IPOs to DUIs, no topic is off-limits…as long as hosts Chris "Drama" Pfaff, Dee Murthy and Anand Murthy have something to say about it. In a world of fake news, poor judgment, and overall bad decision-making, we're here to give you the facts…or at least, the facts as we see them. @drama @deemurthy @anandmurthy
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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Team USA is out of the World Cup and the guys are done with soccer but not before breaking down why American sports franchises are worth more than every soccer team on Earth. Then they get into the wealth-building conversation nobody wants to hear, why nearly half of Americans under 30 live with their parents, and the $12 water that broke the internet.
This week's Group Chat covers:
- Team USA is out — the World Cup fallout, the Argentina conspiracy, and soccer's broken rules
- Vinod Khosla's group buys the Seattle Seahawks for $9.65 billion
- Why one NFL team is worth more than almost every soccer club in the world
- Thousands of hourly Costco workers now have over $1 million in their 401(k)s
- The boomer math nobody talks about — save 5-10% since 1990 and you'd have $6 million today
- Why the S&P 500 is the "Premier League" of investing and still available to everyone
- Is the system actually broken, or are we just wired for instant gratification?
- Nearly half of Americans under 30 now live with their parents — coddling or smart money?
- The participation trophy generation and how parenting changed the game
- Sleepaway camp, self-sufficiency, and raising kids who can take care of themselves
- Erewhon's $12 water sells out — genius marketing or peak status symbol?
And much more!
Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week including
America is running out of places to gather
President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers from outside the government to challenge the Flo Balogun red card,
Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals he has incurable disease: 'My stomach is eating itself,
US Car Payments Hit a Record $777 a Month as Down Payments Drop,
3-hour flights from LA to NYC move step closer to reality after major restriction lifted,
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Gave Cartier Watches to Guests at Wedding and much more!
The Group Chat is back, and this one's a masterclass in how the internet actually works now. The guys sit down with Max Peterson, the 23 year old who built a seven figure clipping empire, paying out over $3 million to 38,000 clippers. Max breaks down how brands like Taco Bell turn podcasts and events into millions of views. Then the crew gets into Meta's surprise new business, Elon's rumored iPhone killer, and why Nike might be the most fixable company in America.
This week's Group Chat covers:
- From posting memes at 12 to running clipping campaigns for Taco Bell and major brands
- Max Peterson's come up: bootstrapping a seven-figure business on $2,500
- The new American dream making $30K a month just posting clips
- How clipping works and why every brand will soon have to pay for it
- Meta's surprise pivot selling its excess AI compute like AWS, and why the stock popped
- The investing lesson hiding in plain sight: when Zuckerberg tells you the plan, believe him
- SpaceX's rumored phone Starlink connected, slimmer than the iPhone, and coming for Apple
- Why Elon might be the only one who can actually dethrone the iPhone
- Bending Spoons' IPO and the business of buying dying brands (AOL, Vimeo, Evernote)
- Nike's big miss the US Men's Soccer merch fumble and how to fix the brand
- Michael Burry shorting Nvidia and Tesla, and the Substack doom grift
- The $40M Sam Altman movie Amazon shelved because no one wants to upset OpenAI
Plus World Cup fever, team USA mania, and why history keeps repeating itself in marketing.
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Group Chat News is back for America's 250th birthday week and the guys go deep on the gamification of everything, AI gatekeeping, and the great retail shakeup. Steve Pitino of Ales Grey stops by with a massive Walmart 4th of July shoe giveaway before the crew gets into why politics might be the biggest trap of all, the AI lockout dividing the haves from the have-nots, and how Jersey Mike's just dethroned Chick-fil-A.
This week's Group Chat covers:
- America at 250 — is the country falling apart or winning more than ever?
- NYC affordability, the DSA, and the middle-class squeeze in big cities
- Declining birth rates and the forecasted hit to car sales by 2040
- The gamification of everything — sports betting, Polymarket & Kalshi, and $165 billion wagered
- How retail traders and day-trading boomers now move even the biggest stocks
- AI gatekeeping — Anthropic and OpenAI limiting frontier models to 100 companies and the government
- China's open-source AI catching up to the US frontier labs
- Should you put confidential financials into AI? The data privacy debate
- Jersey Mike's dethrones Chick-fil-A and goes public at a $12 billion valuation
- Reformation's IPO and why "retail is dead" is a lie
- Sephora's new "quiet hours" and the future of the in-store experience
⭐ EXCLUSIVE ALES GREY 4TH OF JULY SHOE DEAL ⭐
Steve Pitino is doing the biggest giveaway yet for the 250th. Here's how it works:
- Head to Walmart.com and buy any Ales G
Group Chat News is back with the hottest topics of the week. The guys get into Father's Day, youth sports, and the real life lessons hiding in a kid's baseball tournament before diving into LVMH's stunning decline, OnlyFans' $2.6 billion machine, and World Cup mania taking over America.
On this episode of Group Chat, Dee Murthy and Anand Murthy break down:
– LVMH's negative growth and what the decline of Louis Vuitton, Dior, and the luxury giants says about the global economy
– The K-shaped recovery, the vanishing middle class, and why a "violent rebound" in luxury may be coming
– OnlyFans hitting $2.6 billion in US spending. the cash machine, the brand moat, and the AI creators cashing in
– The #1 OnlyFans spending city in America (it's not LA, New York, or Miami)
– World Cup mania: SoFi Stadium vs. MetLife, and why the finals should've been in LA
– The "Freddy" phenomenon America's viral World Cup hero, and whether the whole thing is a marketing plant
– Whether Europeans are really "discovering" America, and why the world sings American songs
– Team USA's run, the magic of a hot team, and the country roads takeover
– Father's Day real life lessons: learning how to lose the lessons sports teach that carries into business and life
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Hosted by Dee Murthy, Anand Murthy, and Chris "Drama" Pfaff
The Group Chat crew breaks down the biggest SpaceX IPO on Wall Street, the AI shutdown scare gripping the tech world, and the World Cup mania taking over America. Business news, markets, and culture from one of the longest-running business podcasts.
This week on Group Chat News:
- SpaceX goes public at a $2.1 trillion valuation: We break down the IPO frenzy, the OG Starbase investors, and Elon's path to $1 trillion by 2030
- The El Segundo wealth boom: how space money is about to reshape the South Bay
- World Cup mania hits America, Team USA run, and the electric atmosphere in LA
- A Middle East peace deal looks imminent: what it means for summer gas prices and inflation
- The Stanford walkout: graduates, free speech, and real-world consequences in tech and finance
- The Knicks' historic win, Wembanyama, and how you're supposed to carry a loss
- The Fable 5 AI shutdown scare, government involvement, and Satya Nadella's warning to the industry
- Should the US government invest in AI companies? The guys debate the trillion dollar question
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Hosted by Dee Murthy, Anand Murthy, and Chris "Drama" Pfaff
Group Chat News is back with the biggest stories of the week including the Knicks taking over Madison Square Garden and the massive MSG spectacle, the final LA ballots coming in and the questions surrounding the mayoral election, the government wanting to buy into the major AI companies as Bernie Sanders, Trump, and Sam Altman all weigh in, the market dip and what Broadcom's forecast says about AI, SpaceX minting 400 new millionaires ahead of its IPO and the Ontario Teachers' Fund turning $300 million into a projected $11 billion, and a debate on Newport Beach, California living, and much more
Group Chat News is back with the biggest stories of the week including Steph Curry's mega shoe deal with Chinese brand Li-Ning, the upcoming SpaceX IPO and the panic around it sucking liquidity from the markets, the LA mayor race as ballots are still being counted, Berkshire Hathaway buying into Google and Google's $85 billion equity raise, the great AI bubble debate, Victoria's Secret and the GLP-1 ripple effect across fashion and retail, Macy's surprising growth, and Bernie Sanders' pitch for the government to own 50% of AI companies.
Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week including
Google's about to release 32 million genetically-modified mosquitoes in Florida — the boys break down why it's the worst PR move big tech could possibly make right now, and what Brad Gerstner is doing differently that the rest of Silicon Valley should copy.
Then: a 26-year-old named Curry Barker made a horror movie for $750K that's already grossed $148M in three weeks. That's a 197x return on a $750K bet — while Hollywood studios are losing money on $200M tentpole films. The barriers to entry just collapsed and the establishment isn't ready.
Plus the LA mayoral race heats up: why we're "quiet Spencer Pratt voters," whether he can beat Karen Bass in the runoff, and what his rise says about a city that's finally fed up. The Mamdani-in-NY parallel, the demo that decides it, and why this might be the biggest mayoral election in California history.
Also covered: why America stopped demanding excellence (and China didn't), Berkshire Hathaway's quiet bet on Scottsdale homebuilders, World Cup ticket prices getting borderline criminal, and why Wembanyama might be the most well-rounded young athlete in sports.
Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. We get into fake peptides showing up in pools and locker rooms, Eli Lilly's gene therapy IV that drops cholesterol 65% for 18 months, and the wild gap between an S&P at all-time highs and consumer sentiment at all-time lows. We dig into the AI optimist vs. pessimist split, Andrew Sorkin's 1929 doomer pitch on 60 Minutes, and why the next Carnegies need to start building parks and libraries to win back public sentiment,the American fitness test, and much more