Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Mar 09, 2026•31 min•Ep. 426
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (02:43) - Ships in Gulf Declare Themselves Chinese to Dodge Attack (04:32) - Largest Oil Disruption in History Reactions (16:18) - Oil & AI (41:22) - Sundar's New Pay Deal (50:12) - Four Loko For Sale (01:02:01) - Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, co-founder of Eon Systems, discusses the company's recent achievement in creating the first multi-behavior upload of a fruit fly brain, marking a significant advancement in whole-brain emulation. He explains ho...
Mar 09, 2026•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 425
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Mar 07, 2026•31 min•Ep. 424
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (00:57) - GPT-5.4 Reviews (19:52) - February Jobs Report (23:17) - Iran Conflict Reshaping Global Capital Flows (29:49) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (34:14) - U.S. Nationalization: A Short History (52:30) - Dario Apologizes for Leaked Memo (58:45) - WSJ Mansion Section (01:23:32) - Vacheron: Culture Over Volume (01:31:10) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:41:12) - Vincenzo Landino is an entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the Brand Boost Podcast, as well as th...
Mar 06, 2026•3 hr 4 min•Ep. 423
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Mar 06, 2026•30 min•Ep. 422
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:30) - Daniel Gross's AGI Trades (47:18) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:03:45) - SpaceX 1.75T IPO (01:14:36) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:20:05) - Mark Gurman, a technology journalist at Bloomberg known for his accurate Apple product predictions, discusses Apple's recent product launches, including the iPhone 17e, iPad Air M4, MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and the MacBook Neo. He highlights the strategic timing of these releases to meet ...
Mar 05, 2026•3 hr 6 min•Ep. 421
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Mar 05, 2026•32 min•Ep. 420
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (00:57) - New Apple Products (08:53) - How is Apple Unaffected by AI Costs? (34:13) - Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Deal (38:14) - Anthropic's Strategy (45:43) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:01:05) - Dean Ball, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and former Senior Policy Advisor for AI at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, discusses the complexities of AI regulation, emphasizing the need for balanced, technocr...
Mar 04, 2026•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 419
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Mar 04, 2026•31 min•Ep. 418
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:47) - Ellison's Media Empire (18:06) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (21:21) - Cursor Mic Drop (26:16) - Zuck's $170M Mansion (29:29) - Matthew Belloni, a former entertainment attorney and editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, is a founding partner of Puck, a digital media company covering Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and New York. In the conversation, he discusses the significant changes in Hollywood over the past five years, includi...
Mar 03, 2026•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 417
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Mar 03, 2026•30 min•Ep. 416
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:07) - Anthropic vs DoW (39:55) - Paramount Wins Warner Bros. (44:02) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (57:35) - Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, discusses the implications of AI's growing power, emphasizing the necessity for companies to consider governmental and geopolitical factors, particularly concerning national security and international relations. He highlights the potential for AI to disrupt existing legal and societal frameworks, stressing...
Mar 02, 2026•3 hr 27 min•Ep. 415
This is our full interview with Ben Thompson, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss his essay on Anthropic, why AI is colliding with hard questions about state power, surveillance, and military leverage, whether private labs can realistically defy governments when AI becomes a true source of geopolitical power, and how trade offs around Taiwan, chips, and democratic accountability could shape the next phase of the AI era far more than abstract debates about safety in the lab. TBPN is a live tech tal...
Mar 02, 2026•34 min•Ep. 414
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 27, 2026•32 min•Ep. 413
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:10) - NVIDIA Earnings Recap (09:07) - NVIDIA Earnings: 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (18:05) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions with John Palmer (59:35) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:13:02) - Sammy Azdoufal, an AI strategist, discovered a significant security flaw in DJI's Romo robot vacuums while attempting to control his own device using a PlayStation 5 controller. By reverse-engineering the vacuum's communication protocols, he inadvertently gained access to appr...
Feb 26, 2026•3 hr 40 min•Ep. 412
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 26, 2026•31 min•Ep. 411
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (00:50) - How Fed is Thinking About AI Adoption (19:45) - Trump's Power Play on Big Tech (26:22) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (39:51) - Anthropic's New Stance on Safety (56:40) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:13:21) - Maxwell Meyer, a Stanford-educated geophysicist and former editor of the Stanford Review, is the founder and editor of Arena Magazine, a Texas-based, reader-supported technology publication launched in 2024. In the conversation, Meyer discusse...
Feb 25, 2026•3 hr 25 min•Ep. 410
This is our full interview with Bill Gurley, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss his new book, why “high agency” and hyper-curiosity are the ultimate long-term edge (especially with AI as a self-learning superpower), and why the real risk for young people is mistaking financial speculation for durable skill-building while the best opportunity is using AI to become the most knowledgeable person in your field. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays fro...
Feb 25, 2026•25 min•Ep. 409
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 24, 2026•29 min•Ep. 408
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:52) - Citrini Memo Reactions (09:35) - Is Doordash Cooked? (12:51) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (20:59) - Kim K Enters Energy Drinks (22:23) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (29:01) - Jane Street Sued (40:17) - Patrick Collison is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, the global payments and financial infrastructure company powering millions of businesses. A longtime advocate for scientific and technological progress, he also co-founded the Arc Institute and wri...
Feb 24, 2026•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 407
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 24, 2026•32 min•Ep. 406
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (00:18) - CitriniPocalypse (18:37) - The Durability of Institutional Inertia (30:26) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (44:01) - The Dot Com Boom (01:00:21) - Polo's Gene-Edited Horse Clones (01:11:06) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:29:24) - Alap Shah, co-founder and former CEO of Sentieo, an AI-powered financial research platform, discusses the transformative impact of AI on white-collar employment, highlighting a significant decline in information sector jobs...
Feb 23, 2026•3 hr 18 min•Ep. 405
This is our full interview with Alap Shah, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss whether AI is triggering a structural decline in white collar jobs, why agentic AI may compress platform margins at companies like DoorDash and Uber, how labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could capture enormous value as public markets struggle, and what political and economic solutions might prevent an AI driven contagion. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11–2 PT o...
Feb 23, 2026•30 min•Ep. 404
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 21, 2026•29 min•Ep. 403
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:07) - Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport, a global supply chain management company, discusses the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated former President Trump's broad tariffs, highlighting the uncertainty surrounding potential refunds for businesses that paid these tariffs. He notes that while the Court's decision deemed the tariffs unconstitutional, it did not provide clarity on whether the $175 billion collected would be r...
Feb 20, 2026•3 hr 7 min•Ep. 402
This is our full interview with Palmer Luckey, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss launching Erebor, a bank built for deep tech after SVB’s collapse, the push toward 24/7 dollar-backed stablecoin settlement, what it means to align a financial institution with U.S. interests, the gaming industry’s shift from innovation to extraction, and the future of VR. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with full episodes posted t...
Feb 20, 2026•29 min•Ep. 401
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 20, 2026•31 min•Ep. 400
This is our full interview with Dylan Field, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss Figma’s growth, the rise of Figma Make, the shift from linear coding to a visual-first product loop, why taste becomes the real moat in an agent-driven world, and why design is the ultimate differentiator in 2026. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with full episodes posted to podcast platforms immediately after. Described by The New Yo...
Feb 20, 2026•21 min•Ep. 399
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (00:59) - We're Cancelling the the SaaSpocalypse (16:47) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (38:37) - Palantir Jet Costs $17M Annually (46:16) - WBD x Netflix Bid Update (59:21) - eBay to Buy Depop (01:01:42) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:16:56) - Elite Lawyer Fees Hit Record Highs (01:22:30) - Older Consumers Drive 2026 Growth (01:27:24) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:41:51) - Sigil Wen discusses his concept of Web 4.0, envisioning an Internet where AI acts as th...
Feb 19, 2026•3 hr 27 min•Ep. 398
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.c...
Feb 19, 2026•30 min•Ep. 397