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Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:51 unnamed speaker Climbing the chart is currently Muse's number three on the charts in the App Store after ESPN Fantasy Sports and more in ChatGPT.
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:06 John Coogan That doesn't seem like, you know, you're languishing in the app store with no downloads because how many messages a day can a bored teenager possibly put up with a, with an AI agent?
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:41 unnamed speaker Obviously did so much on the services side that no one really gives him credit for with advertising in the app store and just money printing machine working flawlessly.
AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:45 John Coogan Like, there's, like, a billion people using it.
Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
- ▶ 23:28 Travis Kalanick Because you're not dropping a, you're not dropping a fucking app in the app store.
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:31 Jordi Hays The other factor that I've just continued to think is, is quite interesting is the app store as a moat has, is, is being diminished by AI. 6 times in the scene
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:38 John Coogan Oh, you mean the app store charts? 2 times in the scene
Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
- ▶ 8:47 Gavin Baker And it would be different if Meta AI was like at the top of the app
WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:10 unnamed speaker So you have like Tim Cook operationalizing the company, making so much money from the app store, building the business.
- ▶ 15:50 unnamed speaker He got some scoops, and he says the company's working on developing new tools to allow AI chatbot apps installed via the App Store to integrate with the Siri AI assistant.
SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:02 John Coogan The LLM like chat bot race is so intense and you open up the app store and it's ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude.
Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
- ▶ 17:13 unnamed speaker Uh, and yet it is weird that when I open up the app store charts, I see chat GPT, Gemini, Claude, and then it's just AI chat apps.
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:41 unnamed speaker Meta AI now is squarely in the top five of the App Store rankings, but it is the most competitive category potentially since search, right?
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:45 John Coogan And so we see those in the, uh, uh, in the app store all the time.
Apple’s New CEO John Ternus, Ferrari’s First EV | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:31 unnamed speaker I feel like I don't see that many people complaining about ads in the app store.
Andy Dunn is Building the App to Get You Off Your Phone
Meta’s AI Comeback Moment, Claude Mythos | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:49 unnamed speaker The question is, will they try to send meta meta vibes again with the new model all the way up to the, to the top of the app store.
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 32:30 Thomas Laffont So I think it's not just macro data, it's App Store data, it's Clickstream data, it's credit card data.
- ▶ 42:29 Thomas Laffont The cares are like, well, I'm not going to allow Apple to have an app store and I don't want to be a dumb pipe and right.
The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:44 Jordi Hays Let's go over to the app store. 4 times in the scene
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:05 John Coogan Uh, anyway, Sora is now, is it still in the app store? 2 times in the scene
Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:37 John Coogan Monthly app store revenue. 6 times in the scene
Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:42 unnamed speaker In the App Store, Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and VibeCode, which help people create games and other applications, from releasing updates to their mobile apps on the App Store unless they make… 8 times in the scene
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:23 Jordi Hays From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day, M-Dash, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV, M-Dash. 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
- ▶ 11:02 Travis Kalanick Yes, you can make that argument on consumer, but when you have a sales funnel that starts with, I'm going to talk to customers and I'm going, I have to make LTV to CAC work versus like my LTV to CAC is the app store.
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:55 unnamed speaker Number one on the App Store.
Nvidia Earnings, Paramount Emerges Victorious, Block Layoffs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:11 Jordi Hays DeepSeek was climbing the app store charts in America totally organically.
Nvidia CRUSHES Earnings. So Why Did the Stock Crash?
- ▶ 1:10 unnamed speaker DeepSeek was climbing the App Store charts in America totally organically.
Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:33 John Coogan So it should be able to get a soundboard app in the app store. 2 times in the scene
Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:13 John Coogan Where did Claude land in the app store?
The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:52 unnamed speaker Although, uh, I'm very interested to see where it goes in the app store. 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Doug O'Laughlin Thinks Microsoft is OUT of the AI Race
- ▶ 26:29 Jordi Hays It's like number three after get free cash and after ChatGPT in the overall app store. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
- ▶ 12:16 unnamed speaker Maybe at the end of the super bowl, we'll, we'll check the app store charts and Claude will be up at the top because so many people have seen this.
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:41 John Coogan Uh, but then a lot of the services revenue comes from the app store.
OpenAI ENDS Vesting Cliff
- ▶ 1:34 John Coogan I mean, the App Store would launch, I believe, in 2007. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 John Coogan And then we've had this other bucket, which is like iTunes, App Store, Apple Care, iCloud, Apple Pay, licensing, just a bunch of other stuff. 2 times in the scene
GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:59 unnamed speaker Hard to think of a better time for this deal to get done than 11 days into OpenAI's Code Red, and right as Sora was about to fall out of the App Store's top 25.
The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:55 John Coogan Uh, OpenAI's Sora app has fallen out of the top 20 most downloaded apps in the United States on both the App Store and Google Play.
Thursday's Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:43 unnamed speaker This, this, the external signs were, I think, like, App Store data.
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 24:13 unnamed speaker So similar to the app store.
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 18:24 Brian Chesky The top three apps in the App Store are AI apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 Brian Chesky And I said, I don't know how much different it is than the app store. 2 times in the scene
George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions
- ▶ 18:26 unnamed speaker That's gaining popularity in the app store.
How Josh Kushner Became The Most Powerful VC in New York
- ▶ 1:19 unnamed speaker A fake UK address in order to download the app via the UK app store.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 1:13:11 unnamed speaker What if you're, what if your business is, uh, mobile games in the app store?
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 47:24 Jordi Hays We're gonna start heavily, we, if Apple just starts heavily pushing ChatGPT, they will by default get their 30% from the App Store, right?
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 2:03:09 John Coogan How there's like apps in the app store that are.
How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- ▶ 29:13 John Coogan Blake Robbins posts about this a lot, how there's, like, apps in the app store that are gambling.
Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- ▶ 4:50 John Coogan Um, it's, it's very hard to break through, even if, even if perplexity can, like, rocket to the top of the app store in India for a little bit, like, it's hard to hold on to when, when the ChatGPT snowball is just growing bigger and bigger…
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 0:33 John Coogan Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 John Coogan Um, apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides opening eye to reach, uh, number one, the app store, which features 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:09 John Coogan Even if, even if perplexity can like rocket to the top of the app store in India for a little bit, like it's hard to hold on to when, when the chat GPT snowball is just growing bigger and bigger every single day.
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 0:35 John Coogan For any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation.
- ▶ 1:00 John Coogan First, in January of 25, DeepSeek reached number one overall in the App Store, similar to how Ramp is our number one sponsor on this show.
- ▶ 1:15 John Coogan Um, and just one month ago on July, 18th, 25, uh, perplexity reached number one overall in India's app store. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 unnamed speaker AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store.
- ▶ 10:32 John Coogan Um, Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides opening eye to reach a number one, the app store, which features 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 unnamed speaker Decisions about which apps to feature in the App Store. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 14:42 Marc Andreessen And then of course it didn't have an app store, right?
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 31:26 John Coogan Like, if, if, if you played out a hypothetical scenario and you went and you, you had, you know, the keys to OpenAI HQ, you went and you exfiltrated all the code, everything, got an app into the app store,
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 4:50 unnamed speaker Like, if, if, if you played out a hypothetical scenario and you went and you, you had, you know, the keys to OpenAI HQ, you went and you exfiltrated all the code, everything, got an app into the app store,
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 15:01 Jordi Hays Has over 225,000 reviews in the App Store.
- ▶ 24:22 Jordi Hays It is the number one free app on the Japanese app store.
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 52:31 unnamed speaker It's like an app store within an app store. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 20:31 John Coogan You're not in the app store.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 41:01 John Coogan But you can get something that's served into the store that only uses Apple's APIs and creates an experience that is, that is zero ongoing cost. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38:57 unnamed speaker Yeah, so typically you'll have to write code, you'll have to build the app in Xcode or something, you'll have to submit it for apps to review, you'll have to get your users to download it in TestLite, enter an invite code. 3 times in the scene
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 11:09 Chris Dixon I actually have, if for those interested, I wrote a book, read, write, own, and I have a chapter on take rates where I go through this in detail, but it's essentially you're going from like 30% in the app store, you know, a hundred percent…
Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 27:39 unnamed speaker Well, uh, Polymarket has the chance of TikTok being on the app store in on May first at 97%.
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 11:17 unnamed speaker Do you see a world where app store ads, but not much for direct to consumer companies, if I'm correct. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mignano on Building Anchor, Social Podcasting, and the Future of Oboe.
- ▶ 20:02 Michael Mignano They're about to ship to the app store.
Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
- ▶ 5:12 John Coogan Of course, this is like the App Store.
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 1:54 unnamed speaker uh, I think he posted this because around, so this is, you know, probably 10 months after the initial Superbowl ad, but they had gone event, gone number one in the app store again.
- ▶ 9:24 unnamed speaker Acquired and then changed hands a couple of times, and Mafia City is actually still a game that you can download in the App Store and use.
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 56:06 unnamed speaker Completely get us kicked out of the Apple App Store.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 18:38 John Coogan Instead, the law requires App Store operators like Apple and Google to stop making TikTok available for downloads.
- ▶ 33:19 John Coogan And they did a ton of, like, app store, uh, optimization and keyword stuffing in the title. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 John Coogan Yeah, I think you'd log in and port, and they, and they, like, uh, they duped the backend database and created a new and combined app, putting it in the app store as TikTok.
- ▶ 1:15:14 John Coogan As little red book climbed to the top of Apple's app store Monday, it became evident that many members of the public 2 times in the scene
How the LA Fires Started (8 Top Theories)
- ▶ 29:05 John Coogan And, uh, Raj Veer says number one on the app store and growing like wildfire, watch duty, wildfire maps, check out their strategies that went viral on TikTok.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 18:21 John Coogan Um, and, uh, it became the first religious app to reach number one in the Apple App Store.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 58:43 Jordi Hays Go download Speak in the App Store today.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 1:57:03 Jordi Hays All about climate risk, and, uh, we highly recommend, even if you're, you know, running the, uh, 2000th chat, uh, GPT derivative app in the app store, you should be thinking about climate risk.
- ▶ 2:22:14 John Coogan Because like if you're in the app store, he's very well, well, so actually he posted something earlier.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:22:09 John Coogan I don't know why you printed this, but I said, Apple can keep the App Store monopoly, but they should be forced to make a printer that doesn't suck.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 1:35:19 Jordi Hays There was, there was a time where you could search chat GPT in the app store and not find the OpenAI app because it was all just like iterations on the name, like the same exact name, like a bunch of trademarks.
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 1:44:15 Jordi Hays Correlates with Coinbase going number one in the App Store, and Coinbase as of this morning was number one in the App Store. 2 times in the scene
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 45:51 John Coogan I feel like Nikita should give a model G-Wagon to everyone that hits number one on the App Store.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:28:57 John Coogan And Polymarket is that they're both, I think they're both marketing as, like, we are the number one app in the app store, but they're in separate categories. 3 times in the scene
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- ▶ 54:59 unnamed speaker They're getting expensive now, but it doesn't have an app store.