Budweiser
product on 16 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 79 times in 46 episodes since 2016
How I Built This 26 
My First Million 10 
TBPN 7 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 5 
Capital Allocators 5 
BigDeal 4 
American Optimist 3 
the Knowledge Project 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
A Product Market Fit Show 3 
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Acquired 1 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
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2026 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- This Mindset Shift Can 10x Your Income | Chris Do
- Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- Fundraising Mastery: The Tao of Kimmer – John Kim (EP.503)
- SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN
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2025 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin · PMF Show
- Ex-Bud Light President: The Truth Behind the Brand’s Collapse · Joe Lonsdale
- Don Vultaggio: AriZona Beverage Company - The Snap Decision That Outsmarted Snapple
- Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- The CEO Who Cheated Death, Slept an Hour a Night, and Built a Healthcare Empire · Invest Like The Best
- Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath
- The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
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2024 9 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
- Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
- Chad Summe and Mike Veith – Corridor of Commerce at eGateway Capital (EP.364)
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2023 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
- Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership
- Personality-Market Fit | Nuseir Yassin, Nas Daily
- Will Meta Bounce Back? (with Nikita Bier) | Where It Happens | Bonus Episode
- NFTs with Gary Vaynerchuk | Where It Happens
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2021 20 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185
- When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200
- Title Nine: Missy Park
- Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver
- Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- Why Dunder Mifflin Should Be a Real Company & A Look Inside MicroAcquire | My First Million #203
- E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
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2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
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6 statements about Budweiser, every show
Do: Budweiser's progressive campaign alienated its core because it was inauthentic
“And the classic example is, I think when Budweiser tried to do something that was non-binary, it said something that was quote unquote very woke. And there was a lot of backlash for that because we know that's not them. And they're just signaling, virtue signa…”
Coogan: Apple Music tied Budweiser for top Super Bowl brand reach
“Yes, so the Apple Music brand reach during the Super Bowl I think was number one or number two right up there with Budweiser.”
Fradin: Influencer software businesses only work when managing campaigns at scale
“I also think, by the way, it is very true that any software business you try to build in this category only works if you're dealing with scale. And I think what happened with brands is they started doing a lot of influencer campaigns, but with like three or fo…”
Shenoy: India's premium beer segment is roughly 55 to 60 million cases
“This is currently roughly around a 55 to sixty million case industry.”
Irrational fear of fringe social media outrage forces brands into boring marketing
“And then I think the other part of it is the current state of social media. The fact that if one person doesn't like your commercial, they can go make a bunch of noise on your brand social page about it, and now the brand is like, oh, two people said they hate…”
Wilkinson: Jorge Paulo Lemann acquires legacy consumer brands using massive debt
“Burger King Budweiser, Tim Hortons, Kraft Foods, Popeyes, Heinz Ketchup, right? So he basically goes out, He finds these amazing, you know, multi-generational businesses that have been around for 50 plus years that do something very, very simple. It's just goi…”