TBPN

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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(00:37) - SaaSpocalypse Revisited

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(25:13) - Singer x Louis Vuitton

(33:33) - North Korea Infiltrates U.S Jobs

(39:06) - Aman vs Ryan Walker

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(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.

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Figma - https://www.figma.com
MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com
NYSE - https://www.nyse.com
Railway - https://railway.com
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbpn/id1772360235
https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive

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
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/

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235
https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive

(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.

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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

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https://x.com/tbpn
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbpn/id1772360235
https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive

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
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/

Follow TBPN: 
https://TBPN.com
https://x.com/tbpn
https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235
https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive