Not every social media manager needs a tiny mic.
The gradual uptick of adding "host" to every social media manager job description.
Good afternoon, everyone.
After spending the last week in Austin, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Palm Springs, and about 45 minutes in Kansas City last night to refuel during a diverted flight, I woke up this morning at home in Brooklyn.
Today’s newsletter includes: The social media jobs that are asking employees to become talent, eBay’s vintage magazine dealers are having a great Q1, the growing appetite for business-content-created-by-hot-people, and it must be fun to work in the New York Review of Books ad department.
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Guest Lecture is a Feed Me series where I introduce you all to an expert who I’m curious about, and give paid readers an opportunity to ask them anything they want. Past guests have included Mark Guiducci, Delia Cai, and Alison Roman.
For our next Guest Lecture, we’ll be talking to Kiki Couchman, who left her full-time job in finance to cofound yogurt brand Sourmilk.
Expense Account is on a brief hiatus, but when Tom Colicchio called, J Lee had to pick up. We’ll be back this spring with some exciting updates.
Closing: The Upper East Side’s Mezzaluna.
Opening: L’industrie, Little Italy.
Meal replacement brand (yum) Huel has been acquired by Danone in a $1.2 billion deal. Can’t say I’ve ever laid a hand on a bottle of Huel, partially because of the name but mostly because I don’t consume my meals in the form of powder/bottled drink/bar, but if you do reach for these in your bodega, I’m curious about the reasoning. I was reading Drew Fallon’s posts on X this morning about the deal, where he wrote that the supplement category seems to be picking up. “Consumer trends are REALLY shifting more than I think anyone realizes towards these supplement businesses.”