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Joined May 2013
If you're wondering why your Slack is quiet today, it's because 6% of US workers took PTO to listen to Taylor Swift's new album
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I'm sorry to your bank account and also you're welcome for telling you this but Sephora is now on Uber Eats
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I can't stop thinking about how this is what Google Maps looked like when it launched in 2005
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Just a hunch but something tells me sales of elongated antique cushion cut diamonds are going to skyrocket over the next year
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Apparently retirement isn't in her vocabulary — Martha Stewart just launched her skincare brand Elm Biosciences at 84.
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Billy McFarland sold Fyre Festival’s last scraps on eBay for $245K. He owes $26m in fines, so… good for him?
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This is Jim Sinegal, the legend who's kept Costco hot dogs at $1.50 since 1985.
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Dating apps are dead, your new best bet is to order an overpriced bowl at Sweetgreen and hope your future wife steals it so she can slide into your LinkedIn DMs
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The other techies in your toilet There’s long been a whole world, albeit small, of toilet-spying academics, meaning Throne isn’t alone so much as they’re, if you will, going with the flow. Late Stanford University professor Dr. Sanjiv Gambhir pioneered smart toilet research as
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Who exactly is investing in this and why? Lest you continue to think mounting a device with an AI-powered sensor on a toilet is BS, the round was led by a reputable VC firm, Moxxie Ventures. Another investor? Disgraced Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, who not only
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The whole thing started as a poker night joke in 2021 between engineer Scott Hickle and developer Tim Blumberg. Someone cracked wise about a "smart toilet," everyone laughed, and then… they actually built it. And now they have funding for it, too. Last month, per TechCrunch,
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This ‘smart toilet’ started as a joke — now it’s legitimately gaining momentum 🧵
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Can’t afford to fly first-class? You can still get the “premium” treatment — or a sense of it, anyway — thanks to airlines’ many, many tiered offerings. This kind of segmentation makes (us frustrated, but) upgrading more approachable for a range of budgets: Instead of paying
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Everyone wants in on the action… United Airlines recently announced Polaris Studio, a new first-class tier offering caviar service, which the airline hopes to debut next year. Air France’s new La Premiere cabin, which offers the longest seats in the sky, launched in April.
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For most airplane passengers, the best-case scenario nowadays is finding overhead storage space and, if you’re lucky, an empty middle seat beside you. But for premium fliers, the possibilities are sky-high. Despite seemingly incessant chatter about a looming recession and
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