🍪 See ya, 2023

Happy Thursday, friends. This is Bite Sized Beta. We’re the cinnamon to your coffee - we give your morning cup of news that extra kick. 

We’ll be out next week for the holidays, so this is our last email of the year. Very grateful for all 10K of ya for making this an incredible year. 

Alright now, enough of the chummy chummy.

Let’s get to the good stuff:

In the oven this week:

  • 📈 The top trends of 2023 

  • 🗳️ Poll of the week: are we doing resolutions? 

  • 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 5 bite-sized headlines 

  • 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 3 favorite finds this week

  • 😂 Snickerdoodles: Thursday memery

FRESHLY BAKED

Every year, Coefficient Capital releases their consumer trends report on what happened in 2023. The presentation’s 100 pages, so we thought we’d save ya the time.

Here were the top trends of the year:

Overall, we’re slightly happier!! Cue the applause

We never exactly hit a recession, but the biggest perceived problem is still inflation:

We moved around a lot more:

And the Ozempic is Ozempic-ed:

Finally, GenZ can’t live without TikTok, and they love TikTok Shop:

What’s in store for next year? Hit “reply” and tell us your predictions 🙂 

POLL OF THE WEEK: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS, ANYBODY?

Every year end, the world gets split into two camps: the resolution makers and the go with the flow-ers.

Let’s hear it from our readers, are you doing New Year’s resolutions this year?

Sound off 👇🏽

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BITE SIZED HEADLINES

Adobe and Figma call off their $20B merger due to EU regulatory pressure. Brutal, especially for all the Figma employees. Still, Figma gets $1B as a breakup fee. 

CHOCOLATE CHIPS

OUR FAVORITE FINDS

SNICKERDOODLES

THURSDAY MEMES

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That's all we got for ya this week, folks. See ya next Thursday!

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