🌁 “LIVE from SF” — The Gap’s boy band. AI’s GrandmaSlop. SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service. +SF Billboard Boom
September 24, 2026
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5 min readIn a live show from San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, the hosts unpack three business stories that reveal how companies are rewriting old playbooks — from the Gap raising a boy band instead of renting one, to grandparents quietly becoming AI’s most enthusiastic users, to private equity diving into the pool maintenance industry.
The Gap’s new talent strategy: raise, don’t rent
The Gap just signed a multi-year deal with JYT (“Just Your Type”), a boy band of five teenagers — Caden, Tyler, Record, Toby, and Brian — who are not famous yet. This summer, they toured children’s summer camps. The Gap will dress them in its capsule wardrobe, send them to mall meet-and-greets at Gap stores, and co-produce a documentary about their rise. It’s a deliberate return to 1994, the year the Gap was at its peak: revenues tripled between the formation of *NSYNC and Justin Timberlake’s departure, and the stock was twice as high in 1999 as it is today.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:39) **The Gap's Boy Band Strategy** - The Gap is investing in a brand new, not-yet-famous boy band called JYT (Just Your Type) as part of a "fashiontainment" strategy.
- 2 (12:54) **Grandma Slop: The AI Generation Gap** - An exploration of how older generations are enthusiastically using AI to generate images of family, creating a new phenomenon called "Grandma Slop."
- 3 (20:10) **Swimming-as-a-Service: Private Equity's Pool Play** - Private equity firms are buying up local pool maintenance companies to create "big pool" after failing to profit from new pool installations.
- 4 (24:36) **Live Show Wrap-Up: Audience Facts & Shout-Outs** - The hosts bring audience members on stage for a final fact and celebrate personal wins from the live San Francisco crowd.
- 5 Standout Quotes
- 6 (12:49) "In the 90s, the gap rented stars. In 2026, the gap is raising them."
- 7 (14:57) "Granny Slop exposes an intergenerational technology paradox we have never seen before."
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Show Notes
LIVE from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco…
The Gap just adopted a teenage boy band that toured summer camps… don’t rent a star, raise one.
GrandmaSlop is the most contentious AI in America… Boomers use AI least but love it most.
PE rolled up pool installers, then the cleaners… It’s SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service.
Plus, San Francisco has 489 billboards… and half of them sell AI.
$GPS $POOL $SF
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