Barbie
product on 15 shows · 8 statements across 3 episodes · said 93 times in 41 episodes since 2017
How I Built This 34 
20VC 14 
TBPN 13 
Lenny's Podcast 5 
My First Million 5 
the a16z Podcast 5 
All-In 4 
Big Technology 3 
Acquired 2 
Another Podcast 2 
We Live to Build 2 
the Green Blueprint 2 
BigDeal 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
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How I Built This 3420VC 14TBPN 13the a16z Podcast 5Lenny's Podcast 5My First Million 5All-In 4Big Technology 36 more shows
2026 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
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- Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN
- AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
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2025 19 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Advice Line with Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment
- The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
- Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- 10 Unknown Apps Making $50K+ MRR (Copy Them)
- Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
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2024 40 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- 6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- Google Gemini and AI bias
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- Marketing Lessons from Jingles, Candy Crush, and Betting Sites
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2023 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- What is the Future of Hollywood?
- Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 40 Years In, She Says the Boardroom's Real Work Happens Elsewhere
- E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)
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2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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8 statements about Barbie, every show
Isaac Larian: Bratz brand is undergoing a resurgence and growing again
“It's a good thing they did that because Bratz is under resurgence and growing again. So on my LinkedIn, I thank them. I thank them for this.”
Dave Morin: Nostalgia cycles peak after 20 years when buyers reach peak earnings
“The trends that start, you know, trends that happen 20 years after, they tend to happen 20 years after the products become popular because the people that were buying them, and in this case the nineties, are at their peak earning potential.”
Dave Morin: Post-internet hunger for real-world connection drives massive live event economics
“People really desire this like tribal connection to other people and to have a shared experience in the real world again. And that to some extent, this is one of the inputs driving this business output that we're talking about.”
Brit Morin: The Barbie movie targets millennial moms to drive toy sales
“I think it's trying to win back over millennial moms so that we buy Barbie products for our children.”
Brit Morin: Barbie Movie Production Cost $130M and Marketing Cost $150M
“A hundred and thirty million spent on the movie, a 150 on marketing.”
Sam Lessin: Commerce curation will shift from platforms to trusted creators
“So it's like in the end of the day, whether it can't be Amazon because it's too diverse and heterogeneous, right? Like it's not going to be the Apple app store, even if they want to rep privacy or something, right? Like, it's going to be individual people in a…”
Sam Lessin: Shein may make more on Barbie than Mattel does
“Yeah, I mean, maybe Shien's gonna make more money on Barbie than Barbie makes on Barbie.”