# Sammi Cohen

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Ankur Jain (Bilt) on the AI Commerce Race, Celebrity Rent Day Collabs and Neighborhood Concierge

Last year, $100 billion in housing payments flowed through Bilt's platform, and one in four apartment buildings in the US now runs on its system. So how did a rewards card for rent turn into one of the biggest players in AI-powered commerce? This week, Sammi welcomes back Bilt founder and CEO Ank‮…

Chili's Comeback, Decoded

Chili's now goes through 65 million pounds of mozzarella a year, up from just 12 million four years ago. The reason traces back to a single TikTok video of a cheese pull that quietly turned a decade-old menu item into one of the biggest comeback stories in restaurant history. Today, Sammi breaks ‮…

Before You Start a Business, Watch This

In this special compilation episode of On the Record, you’ll hear host Julian Reis, alongside founders, creatives, investors, and industry leaders, share the best advice on building brands, making big decisions, finding your point of view, and adapting to a rapidly changing consumer landscape. Fro‮…

Jim McKelvey (Square) on Beating Amazon, The Innovation Stack and Fixing FDA Drug Trials

How does a scrappy startup beat Amazon when Amazon copies your product, undercuts your price and slaps its own name on it? According to Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, you don't. Except, once in a while, someone does. This week Sammi revisits one of her favorite conversations ever recorded for So‮…

Evan Spiegel (Snap) on AR Glasses, Getting Copied by Big Tech and the Social Media Age-Gating Debate

Nearly a billion people open Snapchat every month, and almost half a billion use it every single day. Fifteen years after Evan Spiegel and his co-founders launched the app, formerly known as Peekaboo, out of a Stanford dorm room, Snap is betting its next decade on something you wear on your face. ‮…

Live Is the Point

Matt opens with a one-on-one from the night before, hearing a colleague’s immigrant story and feeling the whole relationship deepen in real time, because you understand someone, and trust them, when you can see your own experience reflected in theirs. That’s the thread through everything Backstage‮…

Peloton: First Profit, the Spotify Deal and Why the Stock Still Fell

For the first time in its history as a public company, Peloton turned a profit. After years of billion-dollar losses, the fitness brand posted $63 million in net income this fiscal year. Just three years ago, it was a punchline. Today, Sammi unpacks how Peloton went from pandemic darling to caut‮…

Natalie Holloway (Bala) on Bootstrapping, Shark Tank and Dupe Culture

Bala started with $5,000, a sketch and a yoga class that wasn't hard enough. Today, the brand behind the bangles on every workout influencer's wrists is growing 50% year over year with just 12 full-time employees. This week, Sammi sits down with Bala co-founder and CEO Natalie Holloway, author of‮…

Welcome to SCN

SCN is a live business news show covering the industries that drive consumer culture: tech, CPG, fintech, fashion & beauty, new media, and the creator economy. The show is co-hosted by founder &content creator Sammi Cohen and consumer investor Alaina Hartley from SCN’s Los Angeles studio. SCN bro‮…

Dan Clancy (Twitch) on Live Streaming Community, Creator Monetization and the Future of AI

Dan Clancy's resume includes NASA, Google and Nextdoor, an unlikely path to becoming CEO of one of the biggest live streaming platforms in the world. This week, Sammi sits down with Dan to unpack what actually makes Twitch different from every other social platform: a community that survives even ‮…