Keith McNally’s Spotify playlist rocks.

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Good afternoon everyone.

Today’s letter includes: an initial reaction to Meghan Markle’s podcast premiere, Keith McNally’s Spotify playlist, a good reason to flee New York (or get into techno) this July, a shift toward “influencer fatigue,” another Substack newsletter is hiring ad sales help, and a $7.5mm fragrance fundraise.

I know it’s easy to dunk on Meghan Markle’s podcast about girlbosses that went live today, Confessions of a Female Founder, but I actually don’t think the concept is bad. I listen to David Senra’s Founders podcast every time a new episode drops, and The Cut’s How I Get It Done column has generated some incredibly memorable content (I think about Martha Stewart’s puffed cereal a lot, “a whole cup of it is like ten calories.”) And this is why I thought CONFESSIONS of a FEMALE FOUNDER might be a good show.

Instead, the premiere episode with Whitney Wolfe fell flat. Wolfe, the founder of Bumble, is a powerhouse. She’s also incredibly polished and media trained. She founded Bumble when I was a 19-year-old college student, and by now I’ve heard Wolfe on The Tim Ferriss Show, How I Built This with Guy Raz, the goop podcast, Masters of Scale, and The Twenty Minute VC. I think the amount of information I have about Wolfe is sufficient.. unless she wanted to drop some kind of bomb about navigating layoffs, or a low-calorie cereal hack, or what she misses about her period of life between CEO roles at her company.

I was holding out for some news.