Kushner and Iger Buy The Lakers, Grok 4.6 Launch, NVIDIA Nemotron | Darren Rovell, Patrick Whitesell, Harjot Gill, Jeff Huber, Soren Monroe-Anderson & Shaun Maguire, Andrei Georgescu
(00:29) - Kushner and Iger Buy The Lakers (11:46) - Grok 4.6 (15:52) - NVIDIA Nemotron (23:58) - Darren Rovell is a sports business reporter and industry analyst. Darren Rovell discusses the Lakers’ record-setting sale, the growing role of institutional investors in sports ownership, and the risks surrounding prediction markets, sports betting, and gambling-like commerce platforms. (43:13) - Patrick Whitesell is a veteran entertainment executive and investor who co-founded WME and now leads the investment firm Weitzel and sports agency WIN Sports. Patrick Whitesell discusses investing in creator-led media companies, his partnership with Alex Cooper’s Unwell, and how digital creators could reshape traditional Hollywood through authentic audiences, diversified businesses, and new production models. (59:09) - Harjot Gill is the co-founder and CEO of CodeRabbit, an AI developer tools company building automated code-review software that analyzes pull requests for bugs, security issues, and code quality problems. He previously co-founded Netsil, which was acquired by Nutanix, and has spent much of his career building developer infrastructure and observability products. (01:08:25) - Jeff Huber discusses Chroma’s growth and its new Zeitgeist shared-memory solution, which helps AI agents retain, retrieve, and securely share organizational knowledge. The Chroma founder and CEO also explains advances in agentic search, fast model inference, and context engineering, arguing that better memory remains essential to more capable AI agents. (01:16:08) - Soren Monroe-Anderson & Shaun Maguire. Soren Monroe-Anderson, a former world-champion drone racer and co-founder of Neros, discusses the company’s $250 million raise, rapid drone production growth, and expansion into interceptor systems. He explains Neros’ vertically integrated supply chain, modular hardware ecosystem, military and international customers, and recruitment of elite drone pilots and former special forces operators. Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital focused on AI, infrastructure, defense, and frontier technologies. Before joining Sequoia, he co-founded Expanse, a cybersecurity company acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $1.25 billion, and previously invested at GV (Google Ventures). He has led investments in companies including SpaceX, xAI, Bridge, Decart, and Lightmatter, and is known for backing technically ambitious founders building foundational technologies. (01:32:28) - Andrei Georgescu discusses how Vivodyne grows human tissues at massive scale to test thousands of drug candidates without relying on animal models or human trials. He explains how the technology could reduce drug-development failures, support personalized medicine, and advance safer, more effective treatments. (01:43:50) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://ramp.com Public - https://public.com Cisco - https://www.cisco.com Console - https://www.console.com CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com Figma - https://www.figma.com MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com NYSE - https://www.nyse.com Railway - https://railway.com Shopify - https://www.shopify.com Codex - http://openAI.com/codex Follow TBPN: https://TBPN.com https://x.com/tbpn https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbpn/id1772360235 https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive
