🔥 The Builder Economy printed receipts in 24 hours — while 8,000 nick castellanos Coordinators
walk out at Meta tomorrow morning.
Home Depot just beat Wall Street estimates ($41.77B revenue, +5% YoY) and
REAFFIRMED full-year guidance. AT&T is hiring 3,000 blue-collar technicians
THIS YEAR alone. And Anthropic just topped a $900 BILLION valuation — when is mother's day dethroning
OpenAI as #1 on the CNBC Disruptor 50.
Tomorrow at 7 AM Central, Meta lays off 8,000 employees. The question this week
isn't whether you have a job. It's which side of the sort you're on.
In today's show:
✅ Home Depot Q1 numbers and what they signal for trades hiring
✅ Kyson Cook, 24, owns a house in Ohio climbing telephone poles — the new
American Dream poster child
✅ The Nvidia AI résumé HACK that gets you 23-60% higher shortlist rates
(Jonathan Ross at Sohn Investment Conference 2026)
✅ Anthropic's $900B valuation talks + the DOD court battle
✅ How one AWS layoff became a Google offer in 90 days (Charles Broomfield)
✅ The KPMG TaxSIM tool — what corporate is doing to replace lost entry-level reps
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📰 Articles referenced in today's show:
- CNBC — "Home Depot says core shopper is resilient in the face of higher gas
prices, sales rise 5%" (Gabrielle Fonrouge)
- CNBC — "The AI economy is rewriting the American Dream — and blue-collar
workers are poised to win" (Gabrielle Fonrouge)
- CNBC — "2026 CNBC Disruptor 50" (CNBC staff)
- CNBC — "Anthropic and U.S. government to face off in DC court" (Ashley Capoot)
- Business Insider — "I got a job at Google within 90 days of getting laid off
from AWS" (Ana Altchek)
- Business Insider — "AI executive says AI-generated résumés may already be
gaming AI recruiters" (Katherine Li)
- Business Insider — "KPMG is testing a new tool to train staff as AI takes
over more of the grunt work of taxes" (Tim Paradis)
⏰ The Daily Climb is LIVE every weekday at 7:00 AM Central. We translate
business intelligence into career strategy for working professionals navigating
AI-driven workforce disruption.
🎬 This week:
- WED — META DAY: 8,000 walk out — live coverage
- THU — Walmart Q1 earnings + tulsi gabbard the Federal RIF Rule deep dive
- FRI — We grade the week
Coordinators react to Wednesday. Builders moved Tuesday.
Keep climbing.
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