TBPN

John Coogan & Jordi Hays

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 Spotify immediately after airing. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” TBPN has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. Diet TBPN delivers the best moments from each episode in under 30 minutes.

  1. 19 hr ago

    WE'RE BACK, Meta Addiction, Tim Cook's Last Day | Jordan Schneider, Robert Mendelsohn & Eric Olszewski, Billy Thalheimer, Aaron Cannon, Stephen Balaban

    (03:29) - Meta Addiction (20:32) - Tim Cook's Last Day (31:33) - OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip (39:48) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (58:39) - Jordan Schneider discusses China’s low-cost EVs, opposition to data centers, ineffective influence operations, AI-generated media, online censorship, and technology investment. The ChinaTalk founder and editor-in-chief also examines DeepSeek’s strategy and chip constraints, China’s employment climate, surveillance, flying vehicles, and corruption within the military’s Rocket Force. (01:35:01) - Robert Mendelsohn & Eric Olszewski. Robert Mendelsohn co-founder of Actinide, discusses the startup’s breakthrough production of HALEU, a specialized uranium fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors. He explains how Actinide modernized Manhattan Project-era Calutron technology and is navigating technical, regulatory, and commercialization challenges to scale isotope enrichment in the United States. Eric Olszewski is the co-founder and CEO of Actinide, an advanced materials company building electromagnetic isotope-separation technology for nuclear energy, medicine, and other frontier industries. In August 2026, Actinide announced it had produced research quantities of HALEU, the enriched uranium fuel needed by many next-generation nuclear reactors, using a Texas-built modern calutron. Olszewski previously co-founded the blockchain infrastructure company Transmute. (01:42:19) - Billy Thalheimer discusses Regent’s $240 million Series B, growing commercial and defense orders, and plans to scale its Rhode Island Seaglider factory. He explains the company’s electric and hybrid propulsion strategies, global coastal transportation opportunities, international expansion, and commitment to rigorous safety standards. (01:55:12) - Aaron Cannon discusses Outset’s growth and its launch of AI-powered digital twins grounded in interviews and data from individual customers. He explains how these twins help companies simulate customer reactions, research hard-to-reach audiences, and eventually anticipate business questions and recommend actions. (02:04:32) - Stephen Balaban, co-founder and CEO of AI cloud provider Lambda, discusses misinformation surrounding AI data centers and argues that accurate context can shift public opinion. He highlights their local economic benefits, efficient water use, renewable-energy potential, and strategic importance to U.S. national security and industrial growth while supporting community-level decision-making. 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

  2. 13 Aug

    SaaSpocalypse Revisited, Singer x Louis Vuitton, Aman vs Ryan Walker | Igor Babuschkin, Brannin McBee, Garret Langley, Sonya Huang, Sean Cole

    (00:37) - SaaSpocalypse Revisited (13:46) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (25:13) - Singer x Louis Vuitton (33:33) - North Korea Infiltrates U.S Jobs (39:06) - Aman vs Ryan Walker (50:57) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (54:49) - Igor Babuschkin discusses his journey from physicist to AI researcher at DeepMind and OpenAI, co-founder of xAI, and founder of River AI. He outlines River AI’s vision for personalized, user-owned models while exploring video games as AI benchmarks, real-world reinforcement learning, specialized models, GPU demand, and custom inference chips. (01:11:33) - Brannin McBee discusses CoreWeave’s strong second-quarter performance and his role as the AI infrastructure company’s co-founder. He highlights financing, data-center capacity, hardware longevity, global expansion, and CoreWeave’s ability to meet rapidly growing demand for AI computing. (01:26:34) - Garrett Langley discusses Flock Safety’s new privacy and accountability measures, including mandatory audit-log reviews and shorter data-retention recommendations. The founder and CEO addresses surveillance concerns, police misuse, regulatory challenges, and the need to balance public safety with privacy and community trust. (01:45:08) - Sonya Huang, a general partner at Sequoia Capital, discusses the unprecedented growth of AI companies and the democratization of model development across startups. She argues that application companies should increasingly own and customize their AI intelligence, while emphasizing that small internal teams can use maturing post-training tools and specialized partners to build competitive models. (01:58:01) - Sean Cole discusses Parasma’s work training lab-grown human neurons for computing tasks, including basic token prediction. He highlights biological computing’s potential advantages in energy efficiency, rapid learning, and continual adaptation, while outlining plans to automate the company’s lab and generate near-term revenue through applications such as drug testing. (02:06:06) - 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

  3. 12 Aug

    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

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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 Spotify immediately after airing. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” TBPN has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. Diet TBPN delivers the best moments from each episode in under 30 minutes.

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