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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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://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive

(01:05) - Midterm Election Recap

(04:19) - Prediction Markets Win

(23:56) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions

(25:57) - FOGO

(32:16) - Ferrari Raises Its Outlook

(36:40) - EU Plans to Downgrade Art Risk

(40:23) - Apoorva Mehta, co-founder and former CEO of Instacart and founder of Abundance, discusses Instacart’s resilience, its evolution from a widely doubted idea into a major public company, and the persistence behind its success. He also explores the future of long-running AI agents, agentic investing, and Abundance’s goal of using AI-driven capital allocation to build a highly valuable company that benefits humanity.

(01:01:16) - Alex Spiro, a prominent Quinn Emanuel trial lawyer and former prosecutor who represents high-profile founders and celebrities, discusses handling complex public cases, building an authentic legal career, and AI’s potential to streamline litigation. He also reflects on his growing business ventures, partnership with Tom Brady, and the challenges of online misinformation.

(01:34:05) - Anish Agarwal discusses his role as co-founder and CEO of Traversal, which builds an AI site reliability engineer that identifies and resolves failures in complex enterprise systems. He explains the company’s focus on Fortune 500 customers, usage-based model, growing integration with coding agents, and recent $120 million fundraise at a $1 billion valuation.

(01:42:56) - Derek Blasberg discusses his work as a New York-based fashion writer and his new book on legendary photographer Richard Avedon. He explores Avedon’s influence on fashion, photography, and culture while reflecting on AI-generated imagery, creative originality, and the renewed value of physical art and in-person experiences.

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: 
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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

(02:14) - $AAPL + $PLTR Earnings

(05:28) - Value of a Search

(13:08) - Grok Bot Breaks the Bank

(16:55) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions

(25:37) - Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s president, discusses the company’s strong Q3 results, major brand migrations, and the growing role of AI-powered commerce. He explains how shopping agents can improve product discovery and purchasing while urging merchants to provide detailed product information ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

(40:41) - Bridgit Mendler is the co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, an aerospace startup building next-generation ground stations and antennas to improve communication between Earth and satellites. Previously a Disney Channel actress and singer best known for Good Luck Charlie, she earned a master's degree from MIT and a law degree from Harvard. Her company recently raised $375 million at a $2 billion valuation, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth.

(51:14) - Dylan Patel, Max Kan & Andrew Megalaa. Dylan Patel is the founder, CEO, and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis, a leading research firm covering semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and data center economics. He is known for his detailed analysis of NVIDIA, advanced chip manufacturing, AI compute clusters, and the economics of training and running frontier AI models. Max Kan is an analyst at SemiAnalysis and co-lead of its Tokenomics research team, where he models the economics of AI inference, token pricing, and future demand for AI hardware. He previously worked in strategy and product at Jane Street and co-founded Habitat, a reinforcement-learning environments startup. Andrew Megalaa is a researcher at SemiAnalysis focused on AI tokenomics, inference economics, and frontier model performance. Alongside Max Kan and Dylan Patel, he has published research comparing AI subscription economics and developing GDPx, a benchmark measuring AI capabilities across economically valuable fields such as software engineering, finance, cybersecurity, and chip design.

(01:17:24) - 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

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