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• (01:44) - Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
• (13:08) - Steve Jobs Predicts ChatGPT
• (21:38) - Apple Kicks off Ternus Era
• (30:03) - Meta Launches Muse AI Agent
• (45:41) - Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI
• (54:08) - David Cahn discusses how AI is reshaping venture capital through concentrated investment in leading private companies, an approaching wave of IPOs, and massive data-center infrastructure needs. The Sequoia Capital investor also highlights opportunities in energy, hardware, robotics, and industrialization, emphasizing defensible intellectual property, strong founders, and aligning investment timelines with market demand.
• (01:10:39) - Mikey Shulman, co-founder and CEO of Suno, discusses the launch of its faster, more expressive V6 music-generation model and partnerships designed to share revenue with artists and rights holders. He also explores how accessible AI tools can inspire everyday creativity, enhance professional music workflows, and become commonplace throughout music production.
• (01:35:25) - Keith Rabois discusses the durability and valuations of AI companies, emphasizing talent density, sustainable advantages, and the risks posed by disappointing IPOs or regulation. The venture capitalist and managing director at Khosla Ventures also shares his optimism about technology, skepticism toward AI doomsday predictions, and belief that investors should back companies aligned with their values.
• (02:01:26) - David Perell is a writer, educator, and host of the interview series *How I Write*. David Perell discusses his approach to interviewing, ambitions to create enduring media, the success of his Cultural Tutor project, and how architecture and design reflect society’s values.
• (02:41:32) - Jim Reilly discusses his entrepreneurial background and Charleston AI, a storefront consultancy that helps individuals and businesses understand, implement, and benefit from artificial intelligence. He explains how AI improves productivity, addresses common fears and misconceptions, and shares plans to establish a strong foundation before expanding the business.
• (02:52:49) - Fletcher Richman discusses Type, a shared AI workspace that helps nontechnical teams collaboratively build and deploy AI-powered tools. He explains the company’s focus on midsize businesses, particularly direct-to-consumer e-commerce teams, and its recent $4 million funding round.

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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.

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• (00:57) - Math Wars
• (14:38) - Astra Reactions
• (26:47) - Trailer Zone
• (39:19) - AI Job Boom Beats the Doom
• (52:57) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
• (01:02:27) - Dan Wright discusses Armada’s mission to bring modular AI infrastructure to underserved regions as the “hyperscaler for the edge.” He highlights the company’s rapid growth, scalable Galleon data centers, use of stranded renewable energy, and focus on speed, scale, data sovereignty, and real-time edge computing.
• (01:12:07) - Eric Seufert, founder of Mobile Dev Memo and an expert on mobile advertising and digital platforms, discusses the convergence of Netflix and YouTube, Apple’s expanding advertising ambitions, and Meta’s AI strategy. He argues that advertising—particularly conversion-optimized auctions—will remain the most scalable way to monetize streaming, AI agents, and digital commerce.
• (01:48:28) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
• (01:49:49) - Scott Wu discusses Cognition’s fundraising, the rapid advancement of AI agents, and Devin’s growing role in enterprise software development and cybersecurity. He explains that effective orchestration depends on combining models, tools, and context, while emphasizing AI’s remarkable progress in mathematics and real-world applications.
• (02:10:49) - Greg Brockman discusses OpenAI’s advances in mathematical reasoning, computer use, image generation, healthcare, and agentic AI. The OpenAI co-founder and president emphasizes how increasingly capable, unified AI tools could generate new knowledge, solve everyday problems, transform healthcare, and empower people while being developed safely.
• (02:35:42) - Sahir Jaggi discusses Forest, the AI Network for Medicine he founded and leads, and its rapid growth to a $3 billion valuation while serving patients, physicians, and major biopharma companies nationwide. He explains how Forest uses AI and healthcare data to streamline clinical trials, drug launches, distribution, and patient access, ultimately making medicine development faster, cheaper, and more predictable.
• (02:43:57) - Andrew Borovsky discusses Split, a fintech company that gives consumers flexibility to schedule major bill payments around their income. He explains its cash-flow underwriting model, ACH-based payment technology, rapid growth to nearly $80 million in annualized originations, and recent Series A and B fundraising rounds led by Khosla Ventures.
• (02:52:14) - Harry Mellsop discusses his work as co-founder and CEO of Antioch, a startup developing simulation technology for physical AI and autonomous systems. He explains Antioch’s hybrid approach to narrowing the simulation-to-reality gap, accelerating robotics development through data flywheels, and serving markets ranging from humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles to Amazon Ring devices.

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This is our full interview with OpenAI Co-Founder and President Greg Brockman.

We discuss how OpenAI solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, what Astra reveals about the future of computer use, why AI is shifting from chatbots to agents that can actually do work for you, how ChatGPT could transform healthcare, why image generation is unlocking entirely new applications, what OpenAI learned from Operator, and where AI goes from here.

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• (00:49) - Astra Reactions
• (21:43) - Jobs Report
• (41:20) - The Dyson Debate
• (51:17) - Cybercab Roll Out
• (58:00) - Hunter Somerville discusses his role as co-head of venture and growth equity at StepStone Group, where he invests across funds, direct deals, and secondary transactions. He examines the difficult fundraising environment for emerging managers, inflated valuations and SPV fees, cap-table management, liquidity challenges, and opportunities in AI, deep tech, hard tech, energy, defense, and biotech.
• (01:31:34) - Bar Winkler discusses Wonderful, the applied AI company he co-founded and leads as CEO, which operates across 33 markets and recently raised a $550 million Series C. He explains how its AI operating system helps large enterprises deploy agents and applications across customer support, back-office processes, coding, and legacy system replacement, with the long-term ambition of becoming foundational infrastructure comparable to Microsoft.
• (01:42:36) - Carina Hong discusses her work as founder and CEO of Axiom Math, where she develops AI tools for mathematical discovery and formal verification. She highlights AxiomâÂÂs record-setting progress on major problems, its competition with leading AI labs, and the potential for verification technology to improve mathematics, software, and scientific research.
• (02:00:15) - Bridgit Mendler, CEO and co-founder of space communications startup Northwood Space, discusses the companyâÂÂs international ground-station network, compact antenna systems, and growing production capacity. She explains how Northwood aims to provide satellites with high-throughput, reliable connectivity while helping operators maximize valuable data amid rising demand and potential launch constraints.

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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.

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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.

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This is our full interview with Pablo Torre.

We discuss how he uncovered the alleged scheme to funnel $48 million to Kawhi Leonard, why Steve Ballmer risked circumventing the NBA salary cap, how money was routed through companies tied to the Clippers, why the NBA handed Ballmer a historic punishment, whether he could be forced to sell the team, what happens if he goes to war with the NBA, and more.

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• (00:19) - Model Mayhem
• (13:12) - Why NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face
• (23:55) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
• (31:25) - Pablo Torre discusses his investigation into an alleged salary-cap circumvention scheme involving Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard. The investigative journalist and host of Pablo Torre Finds Out explains the evidence, the NBA’s punishment, and why Ballmer’s threatened legal battle could further damage the team.
• (55:06) - Mohit Aron is the founder of SaiFin and previously founded enterprise technology companies Cohesity and Nutanix. Aron discusses SaiFin’s mission to use AI to unify fragmented go-to-market context, support real-time decision-making, and serve companies of all sizes while keeping humans involved to ensure accuracy.
• (01:01:09) - Akshay Narisetti, founder of Pocket, discusses building an AI-powered recording device that has sold 300,000 units by making professional note-taking more convenient and reliable than phone apps. He explains Pocket’s hardware, subscription model, privacy safeguards, specialized transcription technology, and plans for agents that turn conversations into reports, presentations, and other work products.
• (01:18:12) - Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of consumer security company Aura, discusses the growing threat of AI-enabled scams, identity theft, and data breaches affecting families and businesses. He explains Aura’s personalized, family-centered approach to digital protection, its focus on streamlined onboarding, and its growth to approximately $340 million in annual recurring revenue.
• (01:26:39) - GPT-6 Astra
• (01:31:23) - Matt Caldwell, CEO of the Minnesota Timberwolves, discusses how the team is using Jump’s direct-to-consumer ticketing platform to simplify purchases, own fan data, and deepen engagement. He also highlights AI-driven ticket pricing and broader distribution across marketplaces to increase attendance and revenue. Jordy Leiser is the co-founder and CEO of Jump, a sports technology company building an all-in-one platform for teams to manage ticketing, commerce, and the fan experience. He previously co-founded StellaService/Stella Connect, which was acquired by Medallia, and began his career in investment banking at JPMorgan. Jump now works with teams across the NBA, WNBA, MLS, and NWSL.
• (01:45:50) - Jeff Thornburg, a space-industry veteran and former SpaceX executive, discusses founding Portal Space Systems to build highly maneuverable spacecraft for defense and civil exploration. He highlights the company’s orbital testing progress, growing team, evolving government-industry partnerships, and the importance of tenacity and calm leadership in solving difficult engineering challenges.
• (01:54:15) - Charlie O, head of AI model training, discusses the future of personalized open-source models, continual learning, and Base Labs’ mission to make AI more useful through open research. He argues that task-specific models can outperform general frontier models economically and emphasizes aggregating real-world data, developing open RL environments, and exploring new ways for models to continuously acquire knowledge and values.
• (02:08:54) - Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses Snowflake’s strong growth, widespread adoption of its AI products, and strategy for competing in the rapidly evolving enterprise AI market. The Snowflake CEO highlights AI-driven productivity, small-team innovation, efficient token spending, internal communication, customer value, and acquisitions that strengthen the company’s data and AI platform.
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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.

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