Forbes, every mention
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every year anyone John Coogan 12Jordi Hays 7Martin Shkreli 2Erik Torenberg 2David Senra 1Ali Partovi 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Forbes comes up
Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:30 unnamed speaker But the reason he is is because, uh, like Forbes estimated his creator earnings prior to Iron Lung at like thirty million a year, so he's been making a lot of money, so he can go and spend 7000 dollars on a cinema camera rig, but he knows…
Leopold Stays in the Game, Big Tech Earnings, OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Prices | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:13 unnamed speaker Like, he certainly could be doing more in Bloomberg, at Forbes, and Fortune.
Alex Hormozi's Playbook for Building Billion-Dollar Businesses
- ▶ 41:54 John Coogan You know, a puff piece in Business Insider and Forbes.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:23 unnamed speaker My buddy, Rob Taves been on the show twice, uh, dropped five predictions in Forbes recently.
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:32 Jordi Hays Forbes came out with their top creators list and earnings.
SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:42 John Coogan 38 on Forbes magazine's list of the richest American families.
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:23 unnamed speaker Think three David Geffen's, 10 full Milkins, and according to Forbes, the fifth richest man in the nation.
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:26 unnamed speaker CEO Alex told Forbes that he hopes to reach one billion by the end of the year.
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:04 Jordi Hays It has also cemented her place among America's richest self-made women, with Forbes estimating her net worth at four hundred million after taxes.
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 26:13 John Coogan Uh, Forbes is writing a story here.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:45:21 Jordi Hays I mean, I'm, I'm pretty fixated on the 20, 35 Midas list.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 1:52:02 Martin Shkreli He's an anchor investor in, like, every VC, every private equity fund, and the guy's compounded that money, so he could be worth four or five hundred billion, and very few people know the Forbes list is, you know, the Forbes list didn't… 2 times in the scene
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 26:44 Ali Partovi In fact, the Forbes feature we had this morning, um, Christina Shen, who is an absolute superstar formerly from a, now she has her own firm.
What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- ▶ 21:16 David Senra And so every single conversation they'd have when he was a kid, like this dude was reading fortune and force magazine at 12 years old.
The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- ▶ 25:54 Erik Torenberg Like Forbes has trained us to think that, you know, lists suck or they're, they're obviously always gamed or. 2 times in the scene
Justin Mares talks Tru Med, MAHA, and the Future of CPG.
- ▶ 0:09 unnamed speaker Uh, profiled in Forbes. 2 times in the scene
The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- ▶ 1:20:05 unnamed speaker Uh, twenty-twenty-two says, the ultimate Tech Anon moment was when Forbes did an interview with the Dread Pirate Roberts, the anonymous founder of Silk Road, at the height of Silk Road's ascent, when multiple federal agencies were trying… 3 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 22:06 unnamed speaker It's really, so there's a bunch of, uh, this article that we're referencing is written by Forbes
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 1:31:37 Jordi Hays There's a big, there's gonna be about 50 reply guys of the week this, this year, and many of those people will go on to join the Forbes list, to start trillion dollar companies, to raise mango seed rounds, and
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 53:11 John Coogan But also, he did that photo shoot, I believe, for Time Magazine or Forbes or something, and they did him really dirty. 2 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:36:54 John Coogan Based Beth Jezos is pulling more monthly views on X than Forbes.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 21:30 John Coogan Alfred Lin, who co-led Sequoia's investments in OpenAI, topped this year's Midas list rankings of the world's 100 most successful venture dealmakers compiled by Forbes.
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 1:00:00 unnamed speaker Scott Wu of, uh, Devin Cognition AI says, uh, posts the daily cover from the Forbes. 4 times in the scene
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 19:21 John Coogan Uh, and so it's just a fantastic, uh, deep dive into a private equity firm that probably wouldn't get covered in, you know, Forbes or Business Insider in the same way, but, uh, Patrick's been able to get to know those folks and, and
- ▶ 1:41:52 John Coogan I thought it would be great to connect before you hit the cover of Forbes so I can brag to my friends that you're in my network.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 1:45:45 Jordi Hays Yeah, and, and I expect things like Colossus Review to, over time, replace the, the, the gaping hole that, uh, that Forbes left, right?
- ▶ 2:26:51 John Coogan And then everyone else, it was like better than being on the Forbes, like that for that day, like Mark Andreessen was reposting it.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 1:28:02 Jordi Hays The real billionaire class is saying, I don't want to be on the Forbes list.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 7:32 John Coogan Like, Alex Conrad, who makes the minus list, was like, this is actually a good idea, and then, and then we, we started, like, talking about it, and so I talked to Abe a bunch, and I was like, dude, like, if, if, if someone, I mean, A, if,…
- ▶ 12:42 Jordi Hays We're at a, we're at a period of time where there's, there's this massive power struggle between, uh, the information, Newcomer, Bloomberg, Forbes for top technology talent.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 3:33 John Coogan And he, and there's that story about how he like fought tooth and nail to get on the billionaires list on the Forbes list.