Breakfast Clubbing #6

Week of May 20th. Biggest One Yet: BC Classic proceeds while I'm in MTL, Philly, Hamptons and London return, and DTBK moves to Summer Thursdays.

Ben Dietz

May 20, 2024

Everyone is invited - especially you. Feel free to share the invite, bring friends, colleagues, family, anyone.

No Agenda, no required buy-in, no need to RSVP. And no pitches.

Everyone pays their own way. And anyone can join the group here, too.

Breakfast Club Events this Week:

Wednesday, May 22: Brooklyn (Williamsburg)

Co-hosted by Eric Korsh and Leann Abad
8:30a @ Le Crocodile at The Wythe Hotel

Wednesday, May 22: Philadelphia

Co-hosted by Julie Gerstein
8:30a @ The Wayward: 1170 Ludlow

Breakfast Club Events Upcoming:

Weds, May 29: Williamsburg

Thurs, May 30: Downtown Brooklyn

Last Week Briefly:

BC DTBK 5.17.24

Per Kat: “Our small and mighty breakfast was graced by Carlos Carneiro Vida Chang Brittany Wengel Hedyeh Parsia Jeff Weiner Jill Meisner Donalee Curtis Ben Dietz.

We talked about local summer beach rituals, moving past the “startup shine” to value mature leadership, product innovations in the milk/alt milk category, the Goldhouse Gala, clients you don't want to work with but that keep trying to scope you, parental control over social & media consumption, more layoff chatter (sadly this one comes up weekly), the overwhelming task of RSVPing to Design Week events and how to hit them all, parents dropping off their kids at birthday parties and lingering (like seriously, go be free!), leaders that don't know how to lead and more. And a secret birthday hug for Donalee Curtis, so great to start the day together!

We move to weekly on Thursdays from next week May 23rd all the way till the end of summer.

Breakfast Club Classic 5.15.24:

At my table we talked Death Mothers, attachment theory, why parents are inherently embarrassing to their kids, consolidating IRL meetings, stuck ages, rebooting "Mr. and Mrs Smith," meta-creation in music and film, screens that could kill us, interactive documentaries, spike jonze’s “How They Get There,” digital packrats, the Condé Nast auxiliary office, investing in archives, Horst P. Horst, 10 songs being created every second on Udio, AI driving the price of garbage to zero, the true value of a tomato, choosing ‘clown,’ the humble hero, business marketing, the future of Paramount, the glory days of MTV, music business excesses, the speculative future of VICE Media, intergenerational exchange, The Flaming Lips ‘Zaireeka’ as proto Quandale Dingle, house music tiktok, Fish Octagon, personified filters, FOUND, AdVon Commerce, kids in college, hating data driven decisions, Blumhouse as a culture machine, changing your shark movie to a bear movie, "Annabelle" vs "Abigail," avoiding the word ‘intersection’, viewing data with an artists eye, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity morass, "3EOs" and lots more.

[it was] Alban de Pury, Joel Linkewer, Todd Sines, Jeff Weiner, Piers Fawkes, Sharon Dang, CeCe Chin, Foster Kamer, Paula Herrera, Zaira Stefani Vallejo, Sara Kern, Paul Greenberg, Ian Edgar, Jose Castillo, Matt Flickman 🎥 Hickman, Michael Fasciano, Leann Abad, Gabrielle Nouhra, David Gill, Jasmine Takanikos, Eric Korsh, Lauren Wallett and me.

Michael added: “At my table we discussed “island culture” particularly in northeast and northwest regions, cross-country road trips, awesome shows at Sphere, pre-Instagram marketing, AI data platforms for agencies (buy or build?), the value of craftsmanship, D2C e-bike market, impact marketing, pickleball injuries, and maximizing oxygenation.”

And Jeff chimed in: “Also discussed, the value of natural light and high ceilings in making for lovely group pics. And, how Le Crocodile has achieved the perfect butter to pancake ratio.”

Ok. See you at breakfast soon.

Ben