Buc-ee’s Warpath | 100% Avocado Oil Chips? | Under Armour: 13th Down Quarter

Buc-ee's goes beast mode on trademark protection, that "100% avocado oil" chip may not be pure avocado oil, Under Armour posts its 13th straight quarter of revenue decline, and DoorDash leans into "CringeMart" marketing. 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, CreativeOS) joins Chris Hall and Colin Dougherty.ON TODAY'S EPISODEAdam Gillman — Co-Founder, Hiya HealthWe dig into bootstrapping a sugar-free kids' multivitamin from zero to $103M in net sales with no venture capital, then selling a 78.8% stake for $205M cash — the hard-line DTC dogma of 100% subscription, no Amazon, no retail, 50% off month one, never change price — launching the day the WHO declared a pandemic, and being the operator almost nobody in DTC knows with a nine-figure exit and a few hundred Instagram followers.George Zhou — Co-Founder, BUFFSWe dig into inventing "the world's first beef puff" — a crunchy puffed snack made from grass-fed beef instead of corn or potato — starting it as a USC junior after a chip-smashing kitchen conversation, "arguing with ChatGPT on how to puff meat," raising a $1.1M pre-seed from ~25 angels entirely pre-revenue, and shipping to first customers tomorrow.Mike Manheimer — Chief Customer Officer, PostscriptWe dig into the support-desk-to-C-suite arc, co-authoring the Customer Success category at Gainsight, carrying 20,000 Shopify brands through Postscript's AI "re-founding," the "most ecom AI tools are a black box" thesis, and the claim that brands earn more from an SMS list one-fifth the size of their email list.ALSO ON THE SHOW- The kind of owner you want to know- Eyes for your car- Protein in shampoo?- Kimi breaks out of its sandbox- Not WeWork, but OuiWork- AI dispatchers arrive-------------------------------------Daily newsletter: https://newsletter.ecommcowboy.com/Made possible by:Proppel - https://www.weareproppel.com/ecomm-cowboy-proppelTie - https://meettie.com/TrendTrack - https://www.trendtrack.io/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+CowboyROKT 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://open.spotify.com/show/0q1Pp0rW8j6cehXToNTeJchttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ecomm-cowboy/id1761749693