El Segundo, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone John Coogan 12Augustus Doricko 5Jordi Hays 4Jordan Schneider 1Jeff Woo 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where El Segundo comes up
Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:10 unnamed speaker Started in a little town called El Segundo, and, uh, Glenn Shotwell, one of the most impressive executives of the modern era, and, uh, we all should have known, just due to the nominative determinism.
AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:22 unnamed speaker That was in El Segundo.
Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:11 John Coogan He says, it's crazy to me that she's running around El Segundo. 2 times in the scene
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:34 John Coogan But at the same time, people, people, you know, watch these videos, and they, and they think like, oh, this is like widespread Chinese best practice, when really like, this is probably like their gundo equivalent.
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:12 unnamed speaker What street parking is going to look like in El Segundo in 24 months. 3 times in the scene
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 1:02 unnamed speaker Uh, now that you're, uh, Gundo adjacent. 2 times in the scene
Augustus Doricko (Rainmaker) Talks Terraforming, Regulation Battles, and Climate Tech
- ▶ 20:49 John Coogan And it just feels like we have, you know, I would expect a gundo company to be doing this. 2 times in the scene
Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle
- ▶ 19:16 Jordan Schneider I mean, you're friends with all the gundo bros, like ask them for the, uh, uh, for what they need to, to build a billion of these, but, uh, yeah, I'm a challenge.
Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
- ▶ 9:31 unnamed speaker And so it's just a little odd to me that that's not a thing that is being talked about by all these people that are talking about like the Gundo dynamism, this, that it's like, well, who talks the most on X it's it's founders and investors…
Augustus Doricko talks Cloud Seeding, Christianity, The Gundo Boys and the future of Rainmaker.
- ▶ 14:46 Augustus Doricko And like a lot of people said, oh, look at the facade, like that's so over the top, but also if hard tech isn't cool, I think something that people don't understand about the gundo is like, it's been a very deliberately engineered… 5 times in the scene
Defense Tech vs. Silicon Valley
- ▶ 1:38 unnamed speaker Such activity used to be common in El Segundo, the LA neighborhood that was once the hub of military space flight. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Defense Technology
- ▶ 13:28 unnamed speaker Well, this is why a bunch of the, there's this narrative that all the new defense tech founders are in the gundo, but two of the companies in my portfolio, Deterrence and Allen Control Systems, both the CEOs,
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:43:59 Jordi Hays And I don't think they'll be doing as many gundo bonfires anymore.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:42:16 John Coogan I'm finally taking a vacation day from grinding hard in the gundo, sipping an artisanal, 14 dollar oat milk latte when I hit 39 minutes on your latest episode. 3 times in the scene
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 47:33 John Coogan I described the guise of El Segundo in a way they would gladly describe themselves, and that made it a hit piece.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 0:58 John Coogan You know, they, they write a trend piece about Gundo, and everyone writes that piece.
- ▶ 25:57 John Coogan Anyway, should we go into Isaiah Taylor, one of, one of the Elsa Goodyear set, who founded Velar Atomics, a nuclear energy startup,
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 21:14 Jordi Hays Yeah, it's, there's a couple companies in the broader Gundo area that were basically raising earlier this year under the pretense that, hey, we're raising ten million now.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 2:07:07 John Coogan And it was a big shift from like the defense tech boom, the gundo boom.
- ▶ 2:21:11 Jordi Hays And we cannot wait to hang, you know, at the next Gundo TB dinner.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 32:41 Jordi Hays But, like, the whole gundo is, like, being, like, yeah, we're putting up solar panels, like, you have to spend, like, at the office, because, like, baggage.