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 The tea from this story is that events that cause drama and slay empires favor the fast and lit. Because disruption is, like, the whole vibe of entrepreneurship, the more lit the world gets, the more you gotta be on the lookout for opportunities—and keep on searching, ya know? This strat can be hella effective for skunks. In the face of sudden change, sometimes even the most basic companies can totally ditch their usual slow-mo vibes. Vodafone slid into my DMs for a lit exclusive sponsorship. And then, like, bam! The Egyptian revolution happened. Weeks of straight up chaos turned into months, turned into years. The stock market totally tanked; investment straight up vanished. Did the founders yeet and bounce? Nah fam. They totally flexed and adapted, fam. 

They found a new vibe, adding mad options they never would have imagined, one that gave protesters a lit list of emergency numbers

a second that marked areas too sketch because of vandalism. OMG when the fuel shortages hit, the Bey2ollak squad came through and added a sick feature that shows where all the gas stations are at. So clutch! By 2013 Bey2ollak, which became an Endeavor company, had enlisted more than six hundred thousand subscribers and had expanded into Europe. Periodt. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina totally wrecked the Gulf Coast, fam. Marian Croak, a researcher at AT&T’s Bell Labs, was like, totally shook watching the weak relief efforts. It was such a bummer, tbh. "If peeps needed clothes, if they needed cash, it wasn't clear how to get it to them ASAP," she said. Croak had been flexin' her career studying mad breakthroughs in data comms; she was the OG woman in the history of AT&T to score a hunnid patents. She like totally remembered that AT&T had, like, set up this lit text message voting system for American Idol back in 2003. It was sooo iconic! If viewers could flex their mobile phones to vote for Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson, why not have them do the same to flex cash to those in need? 

These stories have one thing in common: lit bursts of entrepreneurship popping off from mad instability. 

My fave story of this kind happened like two hunnid years ago in a totally diff kinda chaos. In 1813, like, during the Napoleonic Wars, Russia was all like invading France, you know? When Russian troops occupied Reims, in the Champagne region, soldiers were like, totally allowed to flex and raid local vineyards, including one run by Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, the young widow of François Clicquot. But Veuve Clicquot, as she was like, hella widely known (veuve is French for “widow”), was a total boss babe, who also happened to have a mad business mind. Yo, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin was born into some high-profile fam, and she ended up tying the knot with the heir to the House of Clicquot. Talk about power couple vibes, amirite? He dead six years later, leaving the twenty-seven-year-old noob in charge of the fam businesses, including banking, wool, and sparkling wine. At the time champagne was like, a total small fry biz. Veuve Clicquot totally shook up the game by flipping those bottles upside down in special racks, spinning them around, and freezing off that extra yeast. The new technique resulted in, like, a way sharper taste, way less sweet, with like, way smaller bubbles. Her 1811 vintage is like, legit the OG modern champagne, ya know? The contribution would be hella charged to the customer’s cell phone bill, and AT&T would flex the funds quickly to organizations like the Red Cross. Croak had the idea in late August, she flexed and filed for a patent that September. Now that's a skunk who can yeet! When a mega 7 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, relief orgs collected over $30 mil through Croak's text-to-donate invention.

But like, as soon as she totally nailed it, a bunch of Russian soldiers were like, at her cellar door, you know? 

Her more experienced rivals chose to dip underground, fam. They totally yeeted their businesses and flexed on those vineyards to keep them safe from those savage soldiers. At first, Widow Clicquot was like, "Hmm, should I consider this approach?" "Everything is going hella bad," she texted her homie. "I've been hella busy for days, like, walling up my cellars, but I lowkey know that won't stop them from getting robbed and pillaged." If so, I'm totally screwed. OMG, they were so not ready for the vibes. OMG, internet sales were lit AF that year, and Bonobos was totally swamped. The site totally bugged out, fam. Dunn totally owned that problem. He straight up yeeted the site and was like, "I'm out, fam. It's gonna stay dark until we fix these glitches." More important, he spilled the tea. Instead of the sleek Bonobos home page, he slapped on a "fail whale" page with a dude whose pants were down and the caption "Caught us slippin'." He was like, "We totally messed up," according to Inc. magazine. Using the hashtag #SaveBonobos, the company also hopped on Twitter with some fire self-roasting. On Quora, a question-and-answer Web site, Bonobos's design team started chatting it up with customers.