John Coogan
Co-Host, TBPN. On 5 shows, 228 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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John Coogan is an entrepreneur who co-founded the meal replacement brand Soylent and the nicotine alternative company Lucy. He creates tech business video essays on YouTube and co-hosts TBPN, a daily live show covering technology, venture capital, and startups.
5shows
228appearances
1,547statements
750resolved
624supported
48contradicted
83%fully supported
49said about them ↓ Everything John Coogan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Coogan: Shaun Maguire's political commentary gave Sequoia Capital a public adversary
“Sequoia was like, you know, the untouchable firm, no enemies, and then Sean McGuire, you know, decided to wage a holy war against Islam, and so now they have an enemy, and now they're not just this, like, untouchable brand.”
Coogan: AI labs will likely solve the Millennium Prize problems this year
“I think that the millennium prize will get solved or proved or delivered probably this year, if not like this week, it feels like all of the different labs are like, Put a million dollars of inference on this. Put a million dollars of inference on this. There …”
OpenAI Agents Built Internal Message Board to Escape Sandbox
“OpenAI member of technical staff, Michael Dalton, revealed That its autonomous agents created a message board with each other to help break out of a sandbox environment to get access to the internet.”
Yacht broker sues Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky over $20 million commission
“Cecil Wright and Partners, a luxury yacht broker filed the legal action in London's High Court over Stronsky's acquisition of Nixie, a 335 foot vessel with four terraces. The broker alleged in a court filing that it was negotiating the purchase for Stronsky wh…”
Coogan: Citadel agreed to buy Situational Awareness's public stock portfolio
“Prime brokers reportedly rushed to raise cash to meet margin requirements while Ken Griffin's Citadel, my former employer reached a deal to purchase the funds publicly traded assets.”
Bloomberg: Phia extension injected affiliate codes during checkout without user interaction
“Bloomberg tested the FIA mobile browser extension across more than 50 websites and found that during the checkout process, FIA opened a background tab without user interaction and injected its own referral code that overrode legitimate referrals from other pub…”
Govtech vendors' main skill is securing contracts, not delivering software
“The primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. Huge moat. Delivery of quality product. Be damned.”
Coogan: Self-driving technology is commoditizing as fast as LLMs
“My latest hot take is that self-driving technology is commoditizing as fast as LLM technology and that companies that take it seriously and actually prioritize it. It is not some insane insane tech breakthrough that cannot be implemented in other vehicles. It …”
Coogan: Alibaba has repeatedly distilled Anthropic's Claude model
“Anthropix's Alibaba has distilled, clawed many, many times, and I saw a chart of the amount of tokens that are getting resold.”
Coogan: OpenAI bought 40% of global raw DRAM wafer output
“Also, apparently, OpenAI made deals to purchase 40% of the global raw undiced DRAM wafer output until 2029.”
Coogan: MedV runs 800 fake doctor Facebook accounts to sell GLP-1s
“They are apparently running 800 fake doctor accounts on Facebook to sell compounded GLP ones. Shiel Monat verified that the accounts are not actually doctors.”
OpenAI acquires tech talk show TBPN
“OpenAI acquires TBPN, accelerating the global conversation about AI.”
OpenAI acquires live tech broadcast network TBPN
“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.”
Coogan: OpenAI offers PE firms a 17.5% minimum return
“OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5%, as well as early access to models not yet in public release.”
Coogan: Reasoning and deep research models have basically solved LLM hallucinations
“Or they talk about hallucinated facts and LLM responses. Something that's basically been solved by deep Deep research and reasoning models”
Coogan: AI agents will entirely replace human GitHub commits by year-end
“I would expect like 70%, and I would expect Codex to be at 30%, and no more human commits because it's working.”
Coogan: 17% of Tracked Tech Figures Appeared in Epstein Emails
“Big tech alerts that around 17% of the people that we track with this account are on the Epstein emails.”
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
Musk says xAI will exceed all combined AI compute in five years
“Elon Musk says that XAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in less than five years.”
Coogan: METR Study Found AI Coding Tools Made Developers 19% Slower
“The meter team did these evaluations where they ran a randomized control trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up open source developers, and what they found was that developers said that they expected products like cursor and windsurf to improve them by…”
Coogan: Surge AI generated over $1B in 2024, surpassing Scale AI
“The company generated more than one billion dollars in revenue last year. Surge has told employees, a previously reported figure that exceeds The eight hundred and seventy million dollars scale generated in revenue during the same time period.”
Coogan: DeepSeek R1 Trails OpenAI by 18 Months and Lacks 0-to-1 Innovation
“Basically, you know, for years, that's covered and working on ways to allow language models, like GPT four to solve tasks that involved reasoning, like math and science problems in 20, 21, he launched a project called GPT zero. What did they launch? Deep seek …”
Coogan: Developers cannot train AI models on AMD due to software bugs
“Like you literally cannot train a model on their chips because it's so buggy and their software is so bad.”
Tesla and Comma AI possess the only scalable autonomous driving architectures
“You can actually go end to end and have a machine learning model from start to finish, just look at the images and decide what the output should be. Just translate from, if you see this, apply braking pressure. If you see this, apply the accelerator. If you se…”
The other half of the tape: John Coogan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 47 times in 31 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 5Jordi Hays 2David Senra 2Molly O'Shea 1
Statements about John Coogan, by other people (2)
Senra: John Coogan is a generational media talent
“I thought John Coogan was a generational media talent, and I've, yeah, he's exceptional.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
TBPN 39
My First Million 5
Sourcery 3
2026 36 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- Oil Market Turbulence, Sundar's New Comp Package, TBPN Weather Report | Diet TBPN
- Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN
- Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN
- The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
- The Character AI Controversy (Role Play)
- The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens John's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-Host, TBPNhost | 223 | 1,494 | 84% 614/733 | full record on TBPN → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-Host, TBPN | 1 | 25 | 70% 7/10 | full record on Sourcery → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-Host, TBPN | 2 | 17 | 40% 2/5 | full record on My First Million → |
 STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Co-Host, TBPN | 1 | 11 | 50% 1/2 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
 SAASTRLEDGER | Co-Host, TBPN | 1 | 0 | — | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |