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
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(00:54) - 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)

(24:09) - Has The AI Slop Gone Too Far?

(38:53) - Is AI Driving Interest Rates Higher?

(50:26) - WSJ Mansion Section

(56:00) - John Arnold discusses his career from natural gas trading at Enron to founding his own hedge fund and becoming co-founder and co-chair of Arnold Ventures. He shares insights on risk management, gambling-like financial products, AI infrastructure, energy markets, nuclear power, and the growing disconnect between private and public market valuations.

(01:44:12) - Viswa Colluru, founder and CEO of Invetta, discusses the company’s $311 million fundraising round and its AI-powered technology for identifying biological molecules and their functions. He outlines Invetta’s focus on developing medicines for widespread unmet needs—including asthma, eczema, and long-term weight management—and explains the practical limitations and safety considerations of AI-designed drugs.

(01:54:17) - Jake Adler discusses Pilgrim’s $25 million funding round and its mission to become America’s first biological prime contractor. He describes Argus, a portable “Shazam for the air” system designed to autonomously detect, identify, and characterize airborne biological threats in locations such as airports.

(02:02:22) - Adam Korsunsky discusses founding Freebean, an advertising company that distributes free, branded coffee as a tangible, targeted, and trackable marketing medium. He explains the company’s rapid growth, conference and campus distribution strategy, and launch of a New York City storefront billed as the world’s first free coffee shop.

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
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

(01:13) - Meta Connect Reactions

(45:04) - Australia vs. AI Agents

(47:33) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions

(49:26) - New Bentley EV

(52:37) - Shalev Lifshitz discusses his background in AI research and the launch of an AI security company with his sister, Romy Lifshitz. He highlights threats to rapidly expanding AI infrastructure—including model sabotage, escape, and theft—and introduces their *Secure Acceleration* report outlining ways to protect AI systems as they advance.

(59:38) - Leif Abraham discusses Public.com’s launch of AI agents for prediction markets focused on market-moving events rather than sports or entertainment. The co-founder and co-CEO explains how sophisticated investors use these agents to automate portfolio strategies, including trading, risk management, options income, and tax-loss harvesting.

(01:09:33) - Diogo Almeida discusses founding and leading TypeSafe AI, whose viral launch has driven overwhelming demand for its developer-focused AI model. He explains that the technology enables reliable automation through fast, structured, calibrated judgments rather than text generation or complex reasoning, making routine workflows easier to integrate into software.

(01:18:54) - Hooman Reza Nazad, co-founder and CEO of Silco Industries, discusses the company’s $75 million raise to build a Nevada rare-earth metallization plant. He explains Silco’s shift from recycling to mined materials, the West’s rare-earth processing bottleneck, and its plans to supply cost-competitive metals to automotive and defense customers.

(01:27:34) - Jordan Nanos discusses SemiAnalysis’s ClusterMAX 3 rankings, explaining how hands-on testing evaluates AI neoclouds by performance, network design, software support, and failure recovery. He highlights CoreWeave and Nebius as leading providers while predicting expansion from inference platforms, chip startups, crypto miners, and legacy cloud operators.

(01:45:03) - Erica Alden Davenedictus discusses her work as co-founder and CEO of Pioneer Labs, a nonprofit engineering biological systems to support human life on Mars. She explains the company’s development of microbes that convert Martian resources into bioplastics, its plans for additional organisms, potential mission timelines, and the legal and ecological concerns surrounding the introduction of Earth life to Mars.

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