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Emily Sundberg

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“I was talking to somebody before my wedding, which was two months ago, about my wedding, and they were like, so am I invited? And I was like, no, I'm just telling you something about my life right now. But there's also an etiquette epidemic.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I also think that there's something happening with DMs and group texts where people are getting closer, faster. And that also affects the wedding guests lists.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Women. The thing is it's all happening, the cameras are always on. So let's take weddings, for example. Hamptons are a different story. It's like a different economy. There are so many different facets going on there. With the weddings, it's like, it used to be about the bride. And now it's about every individual at the wedding and the photo that they're getting and where the photo is going to end up after. I'm speaking from like the point of view of a New York woman who's like, I don't know if this is the case for everyone, but something else that I identified this morning with my husband that I think is that I think that the definition of friend who qualifies for wedding is sort of like expanding as well. So there's this weird gift culture going on where if I invite you, then I have to invite you and I'm expecting that you're going to invite me to yours.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think people are doing it differently, though. I don't think people are as excited to take on venture capital and they're more likely to bootstrap or attach themselves to a friend and like try something and have it fail and sort of quietly brush it aside and be like, I didn't start that weird vodka company that. I don't do that anymore, you know, where I think I can speak to the girl boss very well. Like the girl boss of my, when I was like coming up in my 20s was like taking these huge checks from Whatever forerunner, a general catalyst, or whatever. I never really thought about the implications. And then I think young people have sort of learned what that means at the end, which means people are going to want some return. And often they don't get it.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But a lot of money for a pair of shoes. And then for everyone to feel comfort, I mean, we see it all the time with bags and stuff, but it is sort of funny when it's an entire wardrobe.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's this, I think, when you're all following the same people and the same brands and having the same excitement about the time, people follow what time like clothing drops come out at these brands too, like what time the sites get updated. There's a lot more likelihood than that you're all going to buy the same thing.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Following the same influencer who's promoting the same product and everybody buys it immediately, there's this piece of clothing, I guess it was a dress from Tory Birch a few weeks ago, and I posted it because I saw like five people at different weddings on the same weekend wearing it. And it's a very distinct, like, hot pink dress with mirrors all over it. And I said, this is going to be the wedding guest dress of the summer. Like this is going to be everywhere. And it sold out the next day. Like people were not like, then I'm not going to buy it. Everyone bought it. Like everybody clicked the link and then bought it.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was one of the most shocking parts of the story to me. I feel so silly. If there was one person in this room with the same exact outfit as me, I'd be like, yeah, wait a second What happened? Like, I thought I was putting something together to white pieces of clothing. But it is, it's really weird. I don't know if you've ever been in one of those workout classes, but it's like they all have this set. I'm not sure what it is. I have to do some research because it's an extreme comfort with having an identical life. And I think part of it is probably like the Amazon storefront and they're all”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think as much as I don't think that's like a new thing. It's like. We'll get to the West Village. I don't think that everybody, but there's like a new grind to do that. I think that there's just as many young people in New York living with four roommates in a one-bedroom with like weird Home Depot walls everywhere as there were when I was young. Where they're working, I mean, the three of us are all in the creator economy. I'm sure that there's a whole micro group of young people doing the same, trying to do the same thing.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, and then there's like the whole buy now pay later conversation You can buy now pay later, you're seamless. Like, that's crazy. Yeah. So I think it's like you make the money, you spend the money, and they're probably not even thinking about what about my kids because that's the dating apps don't even work. So I don't know where the kids come in.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's like definitely part of the consumption conversation. It's like you're checking off boxes of small things that you're buying, whether it's at Starbucks or Gucci, to kind of form this perfect life of what it means to be a 25-year-old and like, okay, now I'm happy. I figured that out. Something else that I've been reading a lot about, I have some young readers and I do a lot of surveys in my newsletter, which is awesome that my readers are even willing to spend like 15 minutes on that because I wouldn't. There's a real sentiment of like the world is burning, so why shouldn't we enjoy the things that we can? And I don't know what the savings accounts of these people look like or the credit card bills look like, but I know that a lot of these people are spending money that they do not have because I understand that the jobs.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And have their own style and have their own tumblr or whatever. Like, it was annoying. It was annoying, but it created diversity of opinions. Ability to have small shows that sold out and stuff, and small brands that existed and small stores that existed. And I haven't fully baked out the thought, but I started realizing it like a week ago, like the West Village thing has quickly turned into like, if you live in a flyover state or you live in the West Village, you might be wearing the same exact outfit and be just as obsessed with like the matcha thing, whatever.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a good question. I was talking to a friend the other day who said that she was at her younger sister's graduation on the West Coast and all of the young women were wearing Gucci sandals, like all of them at this school. It was in the Bay Area. And she's 10 years older than her sister. And she was like, this is not something that I witnessed. And it's not like everyone there is loaded to afford this specific sandal. And I know that a lot of you might have read that story in New York Magazine a few weeks ago about the West Village and this sort of homogenous looking young person in New York City. And I'm realizing that that's kind of a phenomenon across the whole country. It's like everyone is wearing the same, buying the same, fitting into this. And millennials back to that. It's like everybody wanted to do their own thing and listen to their own music.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Felt more religious, like hope. Like it was like this idea of hope and something different. And it was like a salve after such a rough beginning of the year with like Trump coming into the White House. But yeah, I don't, I think it was, it felt more emotional and almost religious to me than like at least from like what I've been observing and why people attach themselves to that message so strongly.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I worked at Meta for a few years and there were like these Roman numerals next to your position and you knew how much everybody at the company was making if they were like three or five. And when you move from a four to a five, it was like $20,000 more a year, like not life changing. Like maybe you're taking an extra few Ubers like a year or something like that. And it felt very flat. And it's also hard to look at somebody who you're working with who's two levels higher than you and necessarily aspire to that. Like you're not going to stay an extra two hours at night. It's not inspiring.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not Gen Z, so I'm not like the speaker of the generation. I guess maybe I'm 30. I never identified as gens. I'm definitely identifying more with millennials. I don't think they truly hate millennials. I don't think that's the case. I think that there's like a lot of parts about there's like this tweeness to millennials that is like cringy.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mean back to this idea that say you graduate from college last week on the 100 degree day and you don't have a job lined up yet, or maybe you do have a job lined up and you're entering a very flat company where there's not like a clear ladder for you to climb. And not only is your timeline there, it probably feels somewhat flat, but the end is like whether you're a copywriter or if you're working in finance, the end of it might be a replacement with mass layoffs and AI coming in to take that job.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think something with crypto, there's this online sort of sportsmanship and camaraderie around it as well. So there's like this fun competition and making the money. And it's all very public as well to me. Like you're seeing how much your peers are making and winning and you're almost like seeing how much they're taking home each week, which is stressful”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, you're even seeing if you're a creator, even at like Goldman Sachs, you're probably making more money as making day in the life TikToks than you are from your salary. And like there's this growing creator economy and your role model might be somebody who's made millions and millions of dollars a year from humiliating themselves online. And like there's all these possibilities and tools from entering the creator economy. Like I think Bloomberg published a story last week that even just the market for creator marketing is like 33 billion dollars now it's massive”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I'm curious I think one thing that's very clear about Gen Z is that they've repeatedly been told nobody is coming to save you. You're going to graduate into a job market that barely exists. And if you get a job, you might not even have a desk or an office to go into. A lot of them were home during COVID and they're also seeing like shootings in schools all the time and they're seeing their capital getting sworn like there it's nobody's coming to save them and it's sort of up to them to make the most of this world while it's still in existence. And you hear this sense of like get the bag while the world is still here for you to make some money out of it. What was your question?”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I don't know if any of you use Substock, but they don't give you these analytics. So, all of my data about my readership has been quite anecdotal from just looking at people's profiles in the comment section and seeing who shows up to my parties. But do any of you read it? I do. Okay, so some of you, that's some of my audience. I like to say that my readership is everyone from bartenders to billionaires, but I would say like if you're paying $80 a year for a newsletter, then you're probably making a decent amount of money or you're at least interested in making money. And I think it's a mostly New York audience, 30 to 45-ish. But if you come to my parties, you'll see who else there is. But I would say people interested in making money and somewhat interested in New York City business and culture.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A young man, I think he was 19, a Yale student, emailed me this morning and asked if I could put that poll in my newsletter. Yeah.”
2025-07-05 · Odd Lots · Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source