TBPN

“Like this is open AI bought TBPN to try not to like recreate a media company because of with technology, but to basically like counteract just to have talking heads who were pro AI.”

“The irony is no one watches any of this stuff live. Like the TPPN has a tiny, had, I don't even know now, had a tiny actual Audience for the thing. It's just the clips moved, right? Like, so there's no one who's ever watching it anyway, right?”

“So I challenge that. I think it's a vanity project and absurd.”

“They're also reporting into Chris Lehane, who's the company's chief lobbyist.”

“I just think it's the wrong solution because if you look at the YouGov polling and we've talked about it on this show, Who are the people that do not like AI? The most negative group about AI are people who have not used it or seen anyone else use it. They're …”

“This is just a thing Sam wanted to do. It seems to me that the simplest solution is, is the easiest one. And, you know, they are going to have to you know, follow a much broader public discourse strategy to convince the huge swaths of the public that really ju…”

“I think a lazy argument that, that, yeah, a lazy argument that buying TBPN is a side quest, which it invariably is, but I think it misunderstands this no side quest directive, which was all about compute. You don't want to waste compute on SideQuest.”

“OpenAI acquires TBPN, accelerating the global conversation about AI.”

“TBPN will continue to run their programming, choose their own guests and make their own editorial decisions. That's foundational to their credibility. And it's something we're explicitly protecting as part of this agreement.”

“TBPN will sit within our strategy organization, reporting to Chris Lehane”

“This is from the open AI blog, open AI acquires TBPN, accelerating the global conversation about AI. This is not an April fool's joke.”

“TBPN is not going away. We're going to be live every day, three hours, as long as we want.”

“A core part of this is editorial independence. We can say whatever we want because we're live and we don't need to run anything through anyone.”

“TBPN will sit within our strategy organization reporting to Chris Lehane.”

“And we wanted the aesthetics of being, like, a cable network because we wanted to go and get these, like, public company CEOs on. If you're trying to get a public company CEO, some of them, the really founder mode ones, you just talk, DM with, text, and jump o…”

“If both of you guys could take out, say, four million next year just put it away, might not be the worst idea for a media business, right?”

“I think it's Clubhouse of our era. And so they have brilliant channel market fit, which is they crush it on Twitter for very specific clips. When you look at any of their view rates, very little. When you look at their retention on engagement rates, fuck all.”

“I think it's Clubhouse of our era, and so they have brilliant channel market fit, which is they crush it on Twitter for very specific clips. When you look at any of their view rates, very little. When you look at their retention on engagement rates, fuck all.”

“The Andrew tape might've been the first, but you guys are the second to say, Hey, I'm going to create a podcast. And it doesn't, the podcast is nothing. The podcast is just feedstock for the shorts, for the clips. And that, that is a core, core insight that yo…”

“Taste in this era is going to be a hundred times more valuable as intelligence, thank God, is getting democratized than a commodity, and so it's an amazing time to have great taste, and this is, the timing could not be better for what you're doing.”