TBPN

By John Coogan & Jordi Hays

Technology's daily show (formerly the Technology Brothers Podcast). Streaming live on X and YouTube from 11 - 2 PM PST Monday - Friday. Available on X, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.... more

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December 06, 2025 Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN
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December 05, 2025Live @ NYSE, Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. | Keith Rabois, Emily Sundberg, Adam Faze
(00:43) - Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros.
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(40:44) - Keith Rabois is a veteran Silicon Valley operator and investor, known for senior roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square, and as a general partner at top venture firms including Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. He’s recognized for his sharp strategic instincts, contrarian takes on markets and company building, and for backing category-defining startups across fintech, real estate, and AI.
(01:23:27) - Lynn Martin, the 68th president of the New York Stock Exchange and chair of Fixed Income & Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange, discusses the NYSE's annual tree lighting ceremony, highlighting the participation of celebrities, mascots, and charitable organizations, and emphasizes the event's role in fostering community engagement and supporting listed companies. She also touches on the significance of ETFs, noting their impact on financial markets by providing liquidity and transparency, and anticipates a busy start to 2026 for IPOs, acknowledging potential market volatility due to upcoming midterm elections.
(01:36:50) - Emily Sundberg is a New York–based writer and director, best known for her daily business newsletter, "Feed Me," which has grown into a seven-figure Substack enterprise with over 150,000 readers. In the conversation, she discusses the expansion of "Feed Me" into podcasting with the launch of "Expense Account," hosted by resident food critic J Lee, and her plans to extend coverage to California, acknowledging the significant portion of her readership based there. Additionally, Sundberg reflects on the competitive landscape between platforms like Substack and Patreon, emphasizing the importance of nurturing new talent rather than poaching existing creators.
(02:03:00) - Adam Faze is a 28-year-old American film producer and entrepreneur, known for co-founding the production company Must Be Nice and serving as studio chief at FazeWorld. In the conversation, he discusses the merger between Warner Brothers and Netflix, expressing support for the consolidation as a strategic move to compete with tech giants like Meta, Google, and TikTok. Faze emphasizes that combining Warner Brothers' rich intellectual property with Netflix's powerful distribution network positions the entertainment industry to better capture audience attention in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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December 05, 2025 Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
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December 04, 2025NYSE Gigastream, Jim Cramer Joins, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Eric Glyman, John Zito, Katie Deighton
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(34:00) - Jim Cramer is the host of CNBC’s Mad Money and co-founder of TheStreet. A former hedge fund manager, he became one of the most recognizable financial commentators in the U.S., known for his energetic style and market analysis. Cramer continues to cover stocks, investing trends, and business news across television and digital platforms.
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(01:15:58) - Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of Ramp, a leading finance automation platform, discusses the company's strategic decision to establish its headquarters in New York City, emphasizing the city's unique entrepreneurial spirit and talent pool. He contrasts this with the West Coast's corporate culture, highlighting New York's supportive environment for startups. Glyman also shares insights into Ramp's hiring philosophy, focusing on identifying individuals with high potential and providing them with significant responsibilities to foster rapid growth and development.
(01:31:39) - John Zito, Co-President of Apollo Asset Management and Head of Credit, discusses Apollo's role as a leading alternative asset manager with over $900 billion in assets, emphasizing its significant presence in private credit and its ability to provide long-term financing solutions for large-scale projects. He highlights the firm's integrated approach to investment, offering tailored capital solutions across the capital structure, and underscores the importance of building a strong organizational culture by recruiting individuals with purpose and high character. Zito also touches on the evolving landscape of private credit, noting its growing role in financing asset-heavy industries like AI and defense, and the necessity for companies to adapt to this shift by partnering with trusted capital providers.
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(01:55:07) - Katie Deighton is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering topics related to brands, marketing, advertising, and media. In the conversation, she discusses the challenges brands face in navigating crises amplified by the internet, the shift towards owning their narratives through platforms like Substack and YouTube, and the potential impact of AI on consumer perceptions and advertising strategies.

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December 04, 2025 Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN
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December 03, 2025🟠 YC Demo Day, Paul Graham Joins, Will AWS Buy TPUs From Google? | Harj Taggar, Paul Graham & Jessica Livingston, Richard Wang, Philip Ho, Ali Attar, Kurush Dubash & More
(01:23) - Will AWS Buy TPUs From Google?
(20:51) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
(46:33) - Harj Taggar, a Managing Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Triplebyte and Auctomatic, discusses the evolving landscape for startups, highlighting the increased ease of selling to both government entities and Fortune 500 companies. He emphasizes that the choice between these paths depends on the product type, noting that AI advancements have opened new opportunities for startups to secure large clients directly. Taggar also observes a trend where companies are adopting AI-native, full-stack approaches, integrating AI into their core operations rather than merely offering AI tools to existing firms.
(59:39) - Richard Wang is co-founder and CEO of Clad Labs, a startup building “CHAD: The Brainrot IDE,” an AI-powered development environment designed to blend coding with leisure workflows.
(01:06:32) - Philip Ho, Absurd is a San-Francisco–based startup that builds AI-powered brand and performance ads at scale.
(00:00) - produce production-quality marketing videos scripted, generated, and edited by a multi-agent AI system in about 72 hours. Their work has already seen traction: one of their launch videos reportedly hit over 1 million views, and they average hundreds of thousands of organic views across their campaigns.
(01:18:23) - Ali Attar, co-founder of Lightberry, discusses the company's mission to develop an operating system that enables humanoid robots to interact with humans through natural language, eliminating the need for coding. He highlights their collaboration with manufacturers like Unitree to integrate this software, allowing robots to perform tasks such as emceeing events autonomously. Attar also emphasizes the potential for diverse robot applications, including security roles, and envisions a future where robots are prevalent in public spaces, interacting seamlessly with people.
(01:29:59) - Kurush Dubash, co-founder and CEO of Dome, discusses how Dome provides a unified API for prediction markets, enabling users and developers to trade and analyze data across multiple platforms simultaneously. He highlights that their clientele includes application developers, sports books, and hedge funds interested in high-frequency trading and internal pricing. Kurush also notes the increasing number of platforms entering the prediction market space, each targeting specific regions or verticals, and emphasizes Dome's role in aggregating fragmented liquidity to support professional traders.
(01:38:40) - David Alade, co-founder of Sorce, introduces the app as a "Tinder for Jobs," where users upload their resumes, swipe right on job listings, and AI agents automatically complete applications on company websites. He discusses the current hiring market, noting that while inbound applications are still used, the process is ripe for disruption due to its inefficiencies. Alade also highlights Sorce's growth, mentioning over 25,000 interviews facilitated in the past year, and shares that their marketing strategy relies heavily on viral social media content, particularly on TikTok and Instagram.
(01:45:23) - Karim Rahme, co-founder and CEO of Metorial, discusses how their platform enables AI agents to securely access various applications and data sources, such as Gmail, SAP, and Salesforce, while providing essential access control for large organizations. He highlights Metorial's open-source success, noting over 3,600 GitHub stars and nearly 1,000 weekly active users within five weeks of launch, and mentions ongoing discussions with Fortune 500 companies for large-scale deployment. Rahme also shares his background, including graduating from NYU Abu Dhabi in May and previously leading an Abu Dhabi-based ticketing startup for over three years.
(01:52:54) - Michael Sakowski, co-founder and COO of Crunched, an AI software company, discusses how their Excel-native AI analyst is tailored for top finance professionals, distinguishing itself from Microsoft's broader Copilot by focusing on the specific needs of the top 1% of Excel users. He highlights Crunched's unique ability to detect errors in complex financial models, sharing an instance where the software identified a £10 million overvaluation in a private equity deal, thereby preventing significant financial misrepresentation. Sakowski also addresses concerns about data security, emphasizing that Crunched does not train on client data and cannot access user prompts, ensuring confidentiality for their clients.
(02:01:00) - Nimit Maru, co-founder and CEO of Sava, discusses building an AI-powered trust company to modernize trust administration by treating the trust charter as programmable infrastructure, enabling efficient, compliant, and scalable services. He shares his experience with the outdated trust industry after selling his previous company, Fullstack Academy, and highlights how Sava's platform allows for real-time tracking and management of trusts, aiming to make sophisticated wealth planning more accessible.
(02:08:34) - Ben Koska, co-founder of SF Tensor, discusses how their platform collaborates with various cloud providers to streamline AI model training by managing GPU allocations and optimizing for different hardware, allowing researchers to focus solely on their work. He emphasizes SF Tensor's exclusive focus on the training phase, addressing a gap in the market, and highlights the diverse clientele ranging from individual researchers to large-scale labs tackling unsolved problems in areas like drug discovery and protein folding. Koska also notes the potential for companies to enhance base models with proprietary data, indicating SF Tensor's capability to support such training needs.
(02:15:51) - Henry Kwan, founder and CEO of Icarus, is an aerospace engineer with experience at NASA and Orbital, where he built drones and satellites. He discusses Icarus's development of solar-powered autonomous drones capable of flying at 60,000 feet for extended periods, offering advantages over satellites due to their proximity and cost-effectiveness. Initially targeting defense applications, Kwan envisions broader uses for these stratospheric drones, including enhanced connectivity and surveillance capabilities.
(02:24:20) - Cole Dermott, co-founder of Locus, a Y Combinator-backed startup, discusses the company's development of payment infrastructure for AI agents, enabling them to autonomously pay for services while maintaining control through defined budgets and permissions. He highlights that initial adopters are developers creating autonomous agents capable of discovering and paying for services independently, with broader consumer adoption expected as trust in the technology grows. Dermott also shares that Locus has processed approximately 3,500 transactions and has around 80 projects built using their platform.
(02:28:06) - Paul Graham & Jessica Livingston. Graham is an English-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, co-founded Y Combinator, a prominent startup accelerator that has funded over 3,000 startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit. Jessica Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator and one of the most influential figures in modern startup culture. She helped build YC from a small experiment into the world’s most successful startup accelerator, backing companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and Dropbox. Jessica is also the author of Founders at Work and a long-time advocate for early-stage founders.

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December 03, 2025 The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN
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December 02, 2025🔴 CODE RED 🔴, AWS CEO Joins, Tae Kim Tells All | Matt Garman, Tae Kim, Tarek Mansour, Matt Mullenweg, Jason Fried
(00:19) - Papperger Pushes Rheinmetall to Top
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(16:11) - Anduril Says Failures are Part of Development
(20:21) - 🔴 CODE RED 🔴
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(56:20) - Stratechery: Gemini Spurs New AI Infra Race
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(01:42:23) - Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), discussed several key announcements at AWS re:Invent 2025, including the introduction of frontier agents designed to enhance software development, operations, and security through autonomous capabilities. He also highlighted the launch of Nova 2, AWS's latest Frontier AI models, and Nova Forge, a tool enabling customers to integrate their own data into pre-training checkpoints to create customized models. Additionally, Garman announced the general availability of Trainium 3, AWS's new chip aimed at accelerating training and inference processes for customers.
(01:55:08) - Tae Kim, a senior writer for Barron's and author of "The Nvidia Way," discusses Nvidia's unique corporate culture under CEO Jensen Huang, emphasizing its blunt communication style, agility in decision-making, and meritocratic approach to talent recruitment. He highlights how these factors have contributed to Nvidia's sustained success and ability to outmaneuver competitors. Kim also addresses the company's strategies in navigating challenges such as competition from Google's TPUs and geopolitical issues affecting sales in China.
(02:23:05) - Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, a leading prediction market platform, discusses the company's recent $1 billion Series E funding round, which elevated its valuation to $11 billion. He highlights the mainstream adoption of prediction markets, attributing this shift to factors such as declining trust in traditional media, the legalization of such markets, and their integration into daily activities like sports viewing. Mansour also addresses Kalshi's strategic partnerships with platforms like Robinhood and Coinbase, emphasizing their role in driving user engagement and expanding the platform's reach.
(02:42:16) - Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, discusses the recent live release of WordPress 6.9, highlighting its development by over 900 contributors worldwide. He emphasizes the importance of freedom in technology, advocating for open-source licenses as a "bill of rights for software." Mullenweg also introduces Beeper, a service that consolidates various messaging platforms into a single interface, aiming to enhance user experience across different networks.
(02:53:06) - Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals, is renowned for developing web-based productivity tools like Basecamp and HEY. In the conversation, he discusses the launch of Fizzy, a new Kanban-style project management tool designed to be simple, colorful, and open-source, aiming to bring vibrancy and ease of use to the software industry. Fried emphasizes that Fizzy is built for their own needs, reflecting their philosophy of creating products they personally find useful, and offers it at a straightforward price of $20 per month with unlimited users and usage.

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December 02, 2025 ChatGPT’s Three Year Anniversary, OpenAI Partners With Thrive, David Sacks Vs The New York Times | Diet TBPN
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December 01, 2025David Sacked by NYT, Sir Dylan Patel Joins, Kushner & Sama are Thriving | Ro Khanna, Jonathan Swerdlin, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Vincent Weisser, Ben Hylak, Alby Churven
(00:16) - Alby Churven is a teenage entrepreneur from Sydney who, by age 14, has already founded Finkle, a gamified learning platform aimed at teaching teens coding, entrepreneurship, AI, and real-world skills. He began coding when he was six years old, and previously built Roblox games and a youth-oriented soccer brand before pitching Finkle to Y Combinator (Winter 2026). Alby’s vision blends youthful creativity with a mission to rethink education — and his journey has drawn global attention for ambition and boldness.
(07:22) - Three Years Since the Launch of ChatGPT
(13:06) - Gemini Surges
(20:17) - David Sacked by NYT
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(01:01:19) - Dylan Patel, Founder and Chief Analyst at SemiAnalysis, discusses Google's strategy to sell Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) externally, highlighting the challenges posed by their non-standard design and the need for broader software support. He emphasizes the importance of open-source software in expanding TPU adoption and notes that while Google's internal software stack is robust, making it accessible to external customers is crucial. Patel also touches on the competitive dynamics between Google and Nvidia, particularly regarding hardware performance, software ecosystems, and market positioning.
(01:33:48) - Ro Khanna, a Democratic U.S. Representative from California's 17th congressional district, is known for his advocacy on technology, economic equity, and transparency. In the conversation, he discusses his legislative efforts, including the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandates the release of all Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, aiming to hold powerful individuals accountable and restore public trust. Khanna also addresses the impact of artificial intelligence on employment, emphasizing the need for policies that enhance human capabilities rather than replace workers, and highlights the importance of balancing technological advancement with job preservation to maintain social cohesion.
(02:11:19) - Jonathan Swerdlin, co-founder and CEO of Function Health, is dedicated to empowering individuals to proactively manage their health through comprehensive lab testing and advanced imaging services. In the conversation, he discusses Function's mission to provide affordable access to over 160 lab tests and full-body MRI scans, enabling early detection of potential health issues. Swerdlin emphasizes the importance of utilizing technology to make personalized health data accessible, aiming to help people live longer, healthier lives.
(02:27:59) - Thrive Announces Partnership with OpenAI
(02:29:55) - Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO and co-founder of Runway, discusses the release of Gen-4.5, the company's latest AI video generation model. Gen-4.5 achieves unprecedented visual fidelity and creative control, producing cinematic and highly realistic outputs while providing precise control over every aspect of generation. Valenzuela highlights that Gen-4.5 has surpassed competitors like Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro, securing the top position on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video benchmark.
(02:46:41) - Vincent Weisser, CEO of Prime Intellect, discusses the recent release of Intellect 3, a 100-billion parameter model developed through scaled reinforcement learning and post-training, achieving state-of-the-art performance at a smaller scale. He highlights the creation of an open environment where contributors worldwide can develop reinforcement learning environments, enhancing the model's capabilities across various tasks. Weisser emphasizes the trend of open-source models matching closed models' performance and the potential for businesses to fine-tune models for specific applications, leading to better performance and cost efficiency.
(03:01:01) - Ben Hylak, co-founder and CTO of Raindrop—a company providing monitoring solutions for AI agents—discusses the challenges of silent failures in AI systems and the importance of real-time monitoring to detect and address these issues. He highlights how Raindrop's platform processes millions of events daily, enabling engineering teams to identify complex problems like tool call failures and user frustration. Additionally, Hylak shares that Raindrop recently secured $15 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to further develop their monitoring infrastructure.
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