Apple Sues OpenAI | Starbucks' $400M Software Bill | The World Cup Sells Blades of Grass

Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft, McKinsey drops its State of the Consumer, Disney+ inches toward recreating cable with a free ad-tier, and the World Cup is literally selling blades of grass. It's the consumer's daily show — Ecomm Cowboy — where we break down the stories moving retail and DTC, then sit down with the operators building through it. Today guest host Chase Mohseni (Co-Founder & CEO, CreativeOS) joins ON TODAY'S EPISODERyan Beltran — Founder, Original GrainWe dig into how a University of Oregon grad moved to Guangzhou to learn manufacturing, invented the reclaimed-wood-and-steel watch, and outlived the entire 2013 wood-watch wave — the story-material sourcing playbook (bourbon barrels, Yankee Stadium seats, championship courts), licensed drops with Jack Daniel's and Ford, and 13 years of bootstrapped DTC discipline in a category the Apple Watch was supposed to kill.Abdu Shodmonov — Co-Founder, Primal QueenWe dig into how a 19-year-old college dropout rode the ancestral-nutrition wave into a women's-health rocket — the TikTok Shop affiliate engine (79K+ units sold), the standing strikethrough pricing model, sourcing grass-fed beef organs against viral demand, and the jump from social commerce into 900 Target doors.Colin McGuire — CEO, GlimmrWe dig into the $45K distressed-brand-to-$5M turnaround, 40 million TikTok views in 96 days, the "TikTok Shop as break-even flywheel" thesis that landed a Target launch, and surviving a $1M cargo heist — plus the insurance lesson every DTC operator needs to hear.ALSO ON THE SHOW- Shopify: no more vapes- Starbucks spends $400M a year on software- Even Realities bets on camera-free smart glasses- Jeremiah Prummer exits Kno Commerce & Stamped____________________________Welcome to DTC's daily—what's now/next in ecommerce so founders, marketers, and operators can survive and thrive.Weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.ecommcowboy.com/Made possible by:Sathi - https://www.mysathi.io/champions/ecomm-cowboySlash - https://www.slash.com/Richpanel - https://www.richpanel.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyPostscript - https://postscript.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboySeguno - https://www.seguno.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyIntelligems - https://www.intelligems.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboySARAL- https://www.getsaral.com/ROKT Aftersell - https://www.aftersell.com/offers?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyProxima AI - https://www.proxima.ai/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyNorthbeam: http://northbeam.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyUniversal Ads - https://www.universalads.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyFollow Ecomm Cowboy:https://x.com/ecommcowboyhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/ecommcowboyhttps://www.instagram.com/ecommcowboy/https://www.tiktok.com/@ecommcowboyhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ecomm-cowboy/id1761749693