ModRetro
company on 6 shows · 12 statements across 7 episodes · said 86 times in 20 episodes since 2022
TBPN 72 
My First Million 6 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 4 
Sourcery 3 
Cheeky Pint 1 
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2026 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank
- AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN
- FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay
- What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- Citrini Research’s viral piece, AI and the economy, 90s Nostalgia | Diet TBPN
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2025 58 mentions in 7 episodes 8 per episode
- CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
- Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN
- The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- Palmer Luckey on UFOs, Anduril, Invisibility Tech, & Moon Wars · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- What is PALANTIR? (And Why it's RIPPING!)
- Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
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2024 15 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- My favorite money-making hack of 2024 is called nostalgia hacking
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
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Luckey's ModRetro will officially release previously canceled Nintendo 64 games
“We're actually doing new releases of canceled N-sixty-four games that never even made it to market.”
Palmer Luckey confirms the ModRetro M64 console is in mass production
“The M.S.I.V., I guess the main update is that it's in mass production right now. It is not eventually coming, it is in mass production right now.”
Neistat: ModRetro's mission is rebuilding beloved retro electronics to last forever
“My understanding of Mod Retro, at least what I want it to be, and I think what Palmer and what Torin also want it to be, is like, let's identify Consumer electronics that people just love, like, had an unbelievable relationship where they really, like, the lov…”
Neistat: Matching the vintage Game Boy screen was harder than modern screens
“So it was actually harder to build something that matched the quality of a product that's 20 years old. Then it would be to actually get the latest and greatest screen and just plug it in there.”
Neistat: ModRetro's goal is to build the last Game Boy needed
“I think Palmer's quote when I was interviewing him was, we don't want to build another Game Boy, we want to build the last Game Boy. Like, the last one that ever needs to be built.”
Neistat: Matching 20-year-old Game Boy screens is harder than modern displays
“It was actually harder to build something That match the quality of a product that's 20 years old than it would be to actually get the latest and greatest screen and just plug it in there.”
Neistat: Rebuilding retro hardware lacks technical constraints, making boundary-setting difficult
“When you go in the other direction, but there's kind of no limits and you're looking to make something that was made 30 years ago. The problem is like, where do you draw the line? And I think that's a really it's a really interesting thing to try to overcome a…”
GameStop must acquire Palmer Luckey's ModRetro for $1 billion
“This is the lifeline for GameStop. And so basically I think that GameStop basically has to buy Mod Retro for a billion dollars. At least if I was an investor, that's my investment thesis.”
Hays: ModRetro has a partnership with GameStop
“Mod Retro actually has a partnership with GameStop.”
Hays: Modern analog retro gaming consoles can reach $100M in revenue
“Yeah, if there's a case for, like, basically creating all these different Analog versions of historically significant gaming platforms. It's probably like a hundred million dollar revenue business there to be built.”
Coogan: Palmer Luckey was mining Bitcoin at age 16
“Palmer Luckey, the founder of Mod Retro and Anderle,
Was mining Bitcoin at age 16.”