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U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:55 John Coogan Where, since there's been the DJI ban, there's been various surveillance, ah, tools that are banned, but there's still so many different, ah, pieces of technology from, that come from all over the world.
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:44 unnamed speaker It's gotta be DJI, right? 4 times in the scene
IPO Giga Boom, World’s Fairs of the Past | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 31:56 unnamed speaker Also imagine, you know, a bad actor, remember all the DJI drones had like a back door.
Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:49 unnamed speaker Uh, DJI has not been able to scale up and make a seven 47.
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 18:25 Jordi Hays Somehow DJI still is not. 3 times in the scene
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:00 Jordi Hays There was an individual who accidentally gained control of 7000 DJI vacuums.
FULL INTERVIEW: Ethan Thornton: War With China Will Be Over in DAYS
- ▶ 4:09 unnamed speaker I mean, I've, I've heard like you, you just buy a DJI drone, you fly to Ukraine and you put a grenade on it and you fly it into somebody.
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- ▶ 2:45 unnamed speaker Have you been following the DJI story? 5 times in the scene
Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN
- ▶ 49:40 unnamed speaker Yeah, like Hasselblad is owned by DJI now.
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:07 unnamed speaker And, uh, like the argument against DJI was always like, well, you know, if some tiny drone is in your bottom, you know, sock drawer, like what's it going to do?
Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- ▶ 12:10 unnamed speaker They do have DJI.
- ▶ 16:44 unnamed speaker On the ground in China, do they, ah, do, does the government or the, the military, I don't even know how much of this information would ever appear online and available, do they laugh at us for allowing TikTok and DJI and Unitree? 3 times in the scene
How This Company Is Transforming 911 Responses With Autonomous Drones | Blake Resnick on TBPN
- ▶ 4:06 Blake Resnick And while I also conceptualize the idea of like a citywide nine-way response drone network in that meeting, I was familiar with how technically complex it would be to pull something like that off from my time at DJI, because they were my…
- ▶ 9:36 unnamed speaker I mean, I know, and it's, it's funny cause I, I imagine that, that there's companies that, that have or will try to compete with you that fly a DJI drone and they're like, oh, I could make an American version of this that you could fly in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 unnamed speaker Can you break down some of the, the, the design trade-offs from, uh, what people might have experienced with the DJI quadcopter? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:28 unnamed speaker To move your product away from what people might be familiar with, with like a DJI Mavic three or something like that.
- ▶ 11:24 Blake Resnick Lemur two competes most directly with DJI Avada, but we invented a whole bunch of features that make Lemur two very fit for purpose for a SWAT mission.
- ▶ 12:58 unnamed speaker Isn't it hilariously ironic that we can't pass federal legislation to ban DJI, which owns 90% of our market?
- ▶ 15:25 Blake Resnick So when we're buying a couple thousand drones at a time and DJI is producing literally millions a year, uh, it's not a, it's not a good situation for America. 2 times in the scene
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker We, we had, uh, Jordan from China talk on just earlier, and I was asking him, I was like, do the Chinese laugh at us that we don't ban TikTok and DJI and Unitree and all these companies that are just obvious national security threats that… 3 times in the scene
This Company is Building the Future of Logistics | Keller Cliffton on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 18:06 Keller Cliffton I think the current perception is that, uh, that China dominates drone manufacturing and that, you know, that is true for like DJI quadcopters that, you know, are plastic and take pictures.
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 5:13 John Coogan Yeah, so the steel man here is like, uh, first off, do you think DJI and the consumer drone market is a problem? 4 times in the scene
Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle
- ▶ 17:51 unnamed speaker Yeah, specifically, does the U.S. need to, uh, pay more attention to Unitree running this sort of DGI playbook, uh, with humanoids?
Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
- ▶ 11:22 Jordi Hays Staying on the topic of China, do you think we've learned at all from the sort of, uh, DGI just sort of blitzing and taking the entire US drone market? 3 times in the scene
"Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- ▶ 14:42 unnamed speaker One of the concerns that I have is I think we need to learn from DGI. 3 times in the scene
The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs)
- ▶ 7:23 John Coogan We talk about, uh, you know, DJI versus GoPro. 3 times in the scene
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 20:20 John Coogan DJI, Unitree, Tesla, Anderle, DeepSeek, Jane Street, Palantir, social media platforms, uh, Meta, vertical AI companies, XAI, DeepSeek, Google,
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 50:24 Jordi Hays Which they've done with DJI and.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 0:44 Jordi Hays Uh, and I'll go out on a limb to say this is China's next attempt at a DJI TikTok type.
- ▶ 7:26 Jordi Hays Uh, DJI, where DJI is selling products at, without any profit margin at all. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:36 John Coogan The founder of DJI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:48 Jordi Hays Tying this back to DJI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:36 Jordi Hays I'm not, I'm not gonna, like, like, if you understand, I think it's, uh, not, uh, it's sort of disingenuous to say that DeepSeek is different than TikTok or DJI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:19 John Coogan DJI builds LiDAR, and they also build cameras and microphones and all sorts of production equipment. 4 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 0:03 John Coogan Today, we are breaking down the history and controversy surrounding DJI, the drone maker. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:55 John Coogan And then of course there's like a lot of drone operator content, like people reviewing the ins and outs of like the Inspire three, how it compares and like, but that's not relevant to this story.
- ▶ 8:31 unnamed speaker We're just building software for DGI. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:13 John Coogan But then I think it was the DJI
- ▶ 12:19 John Coogan And then the Phantom four had.
- ▶ 14:07 John Coogan In DJ America. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 unnamed speaker The company unveiled the Phantom in January, 23, the first ready-to-fly pre-assembled quadcopter that could be up in the air within an hour of its unboxing and wouldn't break apart with its first crash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 John Coogan Everything about DJI starts ramping up from 2014, 2015, because Sequoia does the deal. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:38 John Coogan From Silicon Valley in Berkeley, where engineers for three D robotics spent dozens of hours testing the latest code tweaks in their phantom killer, the solo unveiled in April, the black drone whirs and buzzes around the roof with the sound… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:28 unnamed speaker Like, you know, clearly studied, you know, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in school robotics, but then like clearly just kept studying it and being that obsessed with product, never resting on, oh, the Phantom is like… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 John Coogan And so, I mean, yeah, DJI goes in the tear, launches more and more products. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:10 John Coogan Uh, and then, uh, Palmer in 2020 is starting to think about DJI and how military drones will kind of play out. 28 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 John Coogan It's a small drone that can fly for a hundred minutes, three times longer than a DJI Inspire, but with better sensors, longer range communications, and an even smaller carrying case.
- ▶ 56:05 John Coogan They just reverse engineered DJI aeroscope.
- ▶ 56:38 John Coogan Uh, Santiago, Santiago says, who's building the American made DJI competitor for consumer slash agriculture? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:01 John Coogan I, I think the biggest problem is like bringing in new drones that could have even more advanced capabilities because realistically the, the, the military capabilities of like a Phantom three or Phantom four, or even like a DJI mini one…
- ▶ 1:11:11 unnamed speaker GoPro tried to enter the drone industry in a market already controlled by DJI to top it off. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:08 unnamed speaker And, and it just was, just the caption was big, beautiful buildings, sort of proving that we actually are building this infrastructure, um, and, uh, I commented on Aaron's post, and I was like, brought to you by CCP front DGI drones.
- ▶ 2:06:42 unnamed speaker Has Ben ever written about DGI?
- ▶ 2:16:37 unnamed speaker If you introduce somebody to a client and then they close, you can get a DJI drone that we talked about earlier, or you just get next time you need a little help with something. 2 times in the scene
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 1:02:12 John Coogan But it was one of these things where, um, maybe, maybe a listener knows more here or something and can write in, but, uh, it was just one of these, and I see this a lot with, when we dig into, like, Asian companies and, and, and, like,…
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:20:22 Jordi Hays The other thing here, we haven't even covered this, we should hit DGI on Monday, because they have the next target. 12 times in the scene
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 6:58 John Coogan Like DJI is crushing.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 1:18:43 John Coogan Obviously, we need this in drones, we need this in DJI, we need this in robots, we need this in cars, all sorts of things, but it was, it's great to see that
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 52:39 John Coogan It's like, we still don't have an American DJI.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 1:11:53 John Coogan I have a buddy who's doing that for DJI. 2 times in the scene
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 16:17 Jordi Hays You know, we frequently, we're up in a high rise here in LA, and there's frequently DGI drones, sort of like swarming outside the windows, trying to figure out what we're going to say next, try to, try to hear what we're going to, you…
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 2:36:40 Jordi Hays Actually, I need to add, ah, DGI and TikTok to the enemy.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:59:15 John Coogan There's one, there's one company that makes these small like brushless motors that go on the corners of the DJI drones basically in the U S and, uh, and they outsource to China after a while because it was like some family owned thing. 3 times in the scene