The Notorious B2B Show’s Podcast

Did Zapier just create the weirdest B2B growth play of the year?

This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into the customer who legally changed his name to Zapier for lifetime access, the iced coffee job interview debate taking over LinkedIn, and Meta Muse going rogue on Facebook Marketplace.

And somehow, there’s more: OpenAI’s Dots release getting trolled, AI tech houses have become a thing, B2B trying to vibe code tool replacements, and a LinkedIn feature that got us excited even though it should’ve been table stakes years ago.

Somewhere between a legal document, an iced latte, and an AI agent giving out your address, B2B had a very normal week.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Cold open

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41

Tas Bober - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober

RESOURCES:

LET'S NOODLE

Elon Trolls OpenAI's "Dots" Launch

Meta's Cute Muse

Interview With Sizzling Fajitas

SF's $10K AI Tech Houses

Legally Changed His Name to Zapier

JUST FLAGGING

LinkedIn Now Shows Real Dates on Posts

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A Canva event interruption turned into AI backlash discourse, but that was only the start of this week’s B2B weirdness.

This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into Dave Gerhardt’s viral quit-your-job post, why LinkedIn’s interest algorithm might be reading posts too literally, BattlBox saying $266K is missing after Braintree froze/suspended their account, and Gemini hacking three companies in a security test. 

Plus some funny wholesome LinkedIn posts to balance out the crazy.  B2B remains deeply normal. Obviously.

Timestamps: 

0:00 - Trailer: Canva's AI Event Gets Heckled

1:12 - Intro

2:56 - Canva's AI event gets heckled

9:15 - Dave Gerhardt's quit-your-job post

21:26 - Gemini hacks three companies in a security test

28:04 - AI model pricing updates

32:36 - LinkedIn's interest algorithm gets too literal

35:58 - BattlBox's frozen $266K with Braintree

38:01 - Closed-won LinkedIn chaos

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠

Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠

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What does the AI doomsday theory actually say? This week, Tas and Tim recap the scenarios behind the panic: loss of control, human misuse, bioweapons, nuclear war, missing safeguards, and why OpenAI and Anthropic are still building while warning everyone else to slow down.

Then they get into Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.36B after already buying Airtable, and what happens when beloved B2B tools get scooped up at a fraction of their peak valuations.

Plus: the creator rate-card fight, brands lowballing influencers, why “we have other creators” can backfire, one truly cursed AI cold email, and LinkedIn math that refuses to math.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Trailer: The AI Doomsday Theory Explained

0:54 - Drive, INBOUND FOMO, and conference chaos

3:21 - The AI doomsday theory explained

14:45 - Bending Spoons buys Miro after Airtable

18:11 - Creator lowballing, rate cards, and brand reputation

30:07 - The AI cold email that showed the whole prompt

33:59 - Close Won: LinkedIn subject lines, Elon's resume, Teams hate, and broken analytics

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠

Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠

Resources

Urgent All Hands

⁠The AI Doomsday Debate⁠

⁠Jensen Huang rejects a coordinated slowdown⁠⁠Update claude.md So It Won't Kill You⁠

⁠Bending Spoons Buys Miro for $1.355B

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Let's Noodle

⁠Lowballing Creators

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Closed Won ⁠

Name in the Subject Line

⁠⁠Replace "How Was School"⁠

⁠Guess the Résumé⁠

⁠Baiting Engagement Under Bad Takes⁠⁠657 People, 39 Impressions⁠

⁠Marketing Is 10x Harder Than Product⁠

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Recorded live at Drive by Exit Five in Stowe, Vermont, Tas and Tim break down the ex-Anthropic employee whose viral resignation post reignited AI doomsday panic, NVIDIA's acquisition of Hugging Face, and Clay’s Head of Growth's controversial hiring take.

Plus: what Drive feels like in year three and the funniest LinkedIn chaos of the week.

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Timestamps:

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠

Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠

Resources & Sources:

Urgent All Hands:

⁠NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face for ~$13B⁠

Let's Noodle:

⁠Olga Denisova's post⁠

⁠Erin Riska's post⁠

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OpenAI is cutting off Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition, Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck, and HockeyStack’s cofounder is leaving after years of building in public.

This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into OpenAI vs Cursor, billionaire tech pettiness, workplace audacity, Hugging Face’s Microduck, Reddit vs LinkedIn trend timing, Amir leaving HockeyStack, viral ChatGPT flyers, and the week’s weirdest sales posts.

If you’ve got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who saw the OpenAI/Cursor news and immediately knew the customer was about to lose.

0:00 - Episode 75 kickoff

Connect with the hosts:

Resources & Sources:

Let's Noodle:

⁠Hugging Face's $399 Duck Robot⁠ ⁠Newsjacking With an AI Agent⁠

⁠Emir Atli Leaves HockeyStack⁠

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Is your AI visibility strategy built on a platform that can disappear from the answers overnight?

This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into Accenture asking employees to skip August PTO, Reddit citations reportedly dropping sharply in ChatGPT, Google bidding for Spirit Airlines data, Dan Sanchez leaving LinkedIn over AI slop, and one of the worst outreach personalization fails we’ve seen in a while.

Basically: corporate pressure, AI search volatility, data privacy weirdness, and LinkedIn being LinkedIn.

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Timestamp:

0:00 - Trailer: Reddit Citations in ChatGPT Dropped 80%

1:44 - Accenture asks employees to skip August PTO

10:02 - Dan Sanchez exits LinkedIn over AI slop

16:41 - LinkedIn tests AI comment flagging

19:47 - Outreach personalization gone wrong

26:06 - Google bids for Spirit Airlines data

35:35 - Reddit citations in ChatGPT dropped 80%

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠

Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober ⁠

Resources & Sources

BIG PROMPT ENERGY:

Reddit citations in ChatGPT⁠ Sami's Post ⁠

Google buys Spirit Airlines data

⁠Forbes Article ⁠

LET'S NOODLE

⁠Dan Sanchez - the AI Marketing Guy Post ⁠

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Are the AI tools B2B marketers are using every day starting to create bigger problems than they solve?

This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into a viral AI billboard that turned out to be one human, Claude watermarking AI-generated text, Otter and Granola facing AI note-taker lawsuits, Lovable raising at a massive $13B valuation, and Airtable selling to Bending Spoons after its $11B peak

If you've got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs to check what their AI stack is quietly doing.

Timestamps:

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠

Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠

Resources & Sources

URGENT ALL HANDS:

⁠TechCrunch⁠

LET'S NOODLE:

⁠Thomas Peham's post⁠

CLOSED WON:

⁠Renée Shaw's post

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Is LinkedIn really going to let people report posts as “AI slop”?

This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into LinkedIn’s latest advice on “insight + personality,” the new “Seems like AI slop” report button, Substack and Pangram’s AI detection push, Adam Robinson’s AI whiplash, and one deeply unhinged Claude-in-Slack moment.

Basically: everyone wants more humanity, but half the internet is asking Claude how to sound human.

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Timestamps:

Connect with the hosts:

Resources & Sources

LET'S NOODLE:

Nick Bennett's post

Sara Stella Lattanzio's post

BIG PROMPT ENERGY:

CLOSED WON:

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Everyone keeps announcing their LinkedIn breakup, and somehow nobody ever actually leaves.

Tas and Tim opened on the platform question the whole industry keeps circling, whether the grass is really greener over on X, TikTok, or anywhere that is not LinkedIn, and whether piling up followers on a new feed does anything for actual revenue or just scratches the dopamine itch.  

From there it only got weirder, with LinkedIn sliding into dating-app territory, beehiiv's CEO inviting customers to roast the product in public, the growing idea that marketers now need a GitHub portfolio to be taken seriously, AI testimonial videos that feel a little too fake to trust, and Adam Robinson texting 1,335 prospects with an AI clone of himself just to see if anyone would notice.  

It was a full one, which usually means it was a good one. So, is anyone really leaving LinkedIn, or is this just the annual ritual of pretending we might? Tell us in the comments, or send this to the coworker who has announced their LinkedIn breakup three times already.  

Timestamps:

Links and Resources:

Connect with the hosts:

Tas Bober: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober/⁠  

Special thanks to the brand supporting Notorious B2B.

Vector: The B2B ad platform built around real buyer intent.

Learn more at ⁠https://www.vector.co/

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This week we talk about:

Stripe and Advent's reported $53B bid to buy PayPal, Dentsu's 360i agency getting caught copy-pasting an entire newsletter writer's Substack in their "State of Social" report with zero credit, and Kieran Flanagan's new "Content Taste" AI skill promises to teach LinkedIn creators taste and our special guest is not having it.

Plus: the LinkedIn "death spiral" algorithm trend, a rescinded job offer after 15 interviews, and getting laid off while on parental leave.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Trailer: Intro

1:47 - Stripe Buys Paypal

6:41 - The LinkedIn "Death Spiral"

11:23 - Offer Rescinded After 15 Interviews

27:31 - 360i Plagiarized Link in Bio

34:40 - MLK Quote as Cold Outreach

38:36 - Laid Off While on Parental Leave

46:34 - Kieran Flanagan's AI taste skill

1:02:58 - Ashley Sava's Writing While Everyone AI's

1:12:41 - Big Creators ask for engagement payments

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠

Tas Bober – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠

Special thanks to the brand supporting Notorious B2B.

Vector: The B2B ad platform built around real buyer intent.

Learn more at ⁠https://www.vector.co/⁠

Resources & Sources

URGENT ALL HANDS:

⁠Stripe and Advent Bid - $53.4B for Paypal⁠

LET'S NOODLE:

The LinkedIn "Death Spiral"

⁠Melissa Rosenthal's Post⁠

Offer Rescinded After 15 Interviews

⁠Kyle Lacy's post⁠

Plagiarized Link in Bio

⁠Joe Lazer's post⁠

BIG PROMPT ENERGY:

Kieran Flanagan built an AI skill to inject "taste" into content

⁠Kieran's Post⁠

CLOSED WON:

Ashley Sava's Writing While Everyone AI's⁠ Ashley's Post ⁠

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