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Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 32:20 John Coogan So it's, so the show runs on Broadway, but also London's West End, Japan, Germany, Australia, alongside North America,
More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:48 John Coogan Since Washington stepped in, as you know, Jordy, um, Intel has pulled five billion of investment from NVIDIA, two billion from Japan's SoftBank, and its shares have more than quadrupled, trouncing those of rivals.
Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness
- ▶ 25:27 Martin Shkreli Kyosha in Japan
Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
- ▶ 19:58 Gavin Baker And I almost posted yesterday on X, welcome to Japan.
The Lean Startup Author on What Ruins Good Companies
Google I/O, Fertility Decline, Spotify Logo Drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:33 unnamed speaker Uh, and Andre, a different account, uh, is pointing out this KMT general who defected and subsequently betrayed, uh, five different, uh, five different countries in Asia ending in Japan, uh, jumping around.
Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:07 unnamed speaker Japan and others in the region are watching with anxiety, a reminder that US support for Taipei is an interest that informs America's alliances around the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:49 unnamed speaker Anthropic has granted Mythos access to three major Japanese banks. 6 times in the scene
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:36 John Coogan This is on this news that AP lost a trademark fight in Japan in 2024 and in the U.S. in 2025.
Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:45 unnamed speaker Uh, railroads, for reference, during 1835 to 1910 were 63% of the market, uh, and he comps it to Japan, the Nifty 50, tech and telecom, throughout various periods of time.
The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:28 John Coogan Interestingly, the game actually got banned, I think in Japan or some other country, for being, like, poker and being gambling.
The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company”
- ▶ 19:03 John Coogan Interestingly, the game actually got banned, I think in Japan or some other country, for being, like, poker and being gambling.
SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:06 John Coogan What say do we have over, you know, if, if Japan wants to sell PlayStations to China or anywhere, why do we have authority over them?
Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- ▶ 6:55 John Coogan Like, what, what say do we have over, you know, if Japan wants to sell PlayStations to China or anywhere, why do we have authority over them?
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:59 Jordi Hays Let's head over to Japan.
FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat
- ▶ 5:51 Alex Epstein For sure, Japan, South Korea, India.
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:40 Jordi Hays The entire reason that Palantir is growing the way it is, is, like, they're doing deals in Japan.
The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:49 Tyler Cosgrove Sakana would be, yeah, Japanese, maybe.
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- ▶ 19:07 Bill Bishop The comments from the Japanese Prime Minister back in November mess up that messaging, and then they also complicate, ah, the PRC's planning in the, in the event that there is some sort of scenario where they have to use some sort of…
- ▶ 27:52 unnamed speaker Uh, election in Japan. 6 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 29:01 Dylan Patel They go through Korea and Japan and other places, but like,
Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:47 John Coogan Uh, sometimes a creator might actually link to a real parts list, but Gemini allows you to scrape the transcript and then just get that however you want, and then transform it, or add prices to all of it, or see what, see if it's available… 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation
- ▶ 30:54 unnamed speaker In other news, Tim Sweeney says that Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in twenty-twenty-five as promised. 2 times in the scene
Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:45 unnamed speaker In Japan. 3 times in the scene
Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:07 unnamed speaker Uh, apparently you'll be able to buy a very small truck soon, which is a thing in Japan that supposedly not, has been, uh, made illegal for some reason.
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 13:41 John Coogan Um, anyway, I was reminded about that famous image we pulled up of Masayoshi Son back in February, was meeting with Sam Altman in Japan, and he had a crystal ball.
- ▶ 56:52 John Coogan Or Japan. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 9:07 Jordi Hays Japan's SoftBank Group agreed to invest two billion, seeking to curry favor with Trump.
- ▶ 38:32 Jordi Hays So the president won a quote unquote golden share of control over Japan's Nippon steel in return for allowing it to take over US steel.
- ▶ 1:45:00 unnamed speaker That was big, um, it kind of, so, the kind of main story of Popmart is that they basically took a lot of things that were, ah, first in Japan, and then brought them to China, and then exported them basically worldwide. 2 times in the scene
How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- ▶ 11:05 unnamed speaker That, that was big, um, it kind of, so, the kind of main story of Popmart is that they basically took a lot of things that were, ah, first in Japan, and then brought them to China, and then exported them basically worldwide. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:25 Jordi Hays And Grok has hit number one in Japan.
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 1:24 unnamed speaker And Grok has hit number one in Japan.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 24:18 Jordi Hays And right now for context, uh, Grok is blowing up in Japan. 3 times in the scene
E-Cigarettes: Now FDA-Approved?
- ▶ 5:56 John Coogan They wound up selling that to JTI in Japan, or like doing this crazy licensing deal to get that out.
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 13:08 unnamed speaker Uh, Grok is blowing up in Japan. 3 times in the scene
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 49:39 unnamed speaker And like a couple of people, like one person in Japan found it and they installed it and paid for it.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:38:13 unnamed speaker And, like, a couple of people, like, one person in Japan found it
Coinbase CEO Explains the Future of Crypto
- ▶ 18:31 Brian Armstrong Like, we launched Coinbase in Japan.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 32:21 Balaji Srinivasan You, you compete on the vertical as opposed to the horizontal of France coin, which is a franc and Japan coin, which is JPY, right?
- ▶ 1:32:03 Brian Armstrong Like, we launched Coinbase in Japan.
- ▶ 2:35:38 Koki Mochida Um, I'm Koki originally from Japan. 2 times in the scene
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 2:08:21 Koki Mochida Uh, I'm Koki originally from Japan. 2 times in the scene
We Went to DC to Interview Tech's Power Players
- ▶ 16:13 Josh Wolfe Should we be partnering with South Korea or Japan or UK and these kinds of things, but everybody wants to be in the conversation.
The New Era of Defense Manufacturing | Edward Mehr on TBPN
- ▶ 10:31 Edward Mehr For example, uh, robots were produced in, in, um, Japan.
What It Takes to Build a Mine | Ted Feldmann on TBPN
- ▶ 9:22 Ted Feldmann We're going to Japan or Korea, which they have some offtake with, um, through Sumitomo.
How Robots Are Quietly Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing | Saman Farid on TBPN
- ▶ 13:19 Saman Farid So FANUC is Japanese.
The Real Cost of Ultra-Processed Food | Calley Means on TBPN
- ▶ 3:25 Calley Means In Japan or Italy, it's 15%.
- ▶ 19:46 Calley Means So what I like about some other countries in Japan, 3 times in the scene
When the Stock Market Becomes a MEME | Leif Abraham on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 3:21 John Coogan In Japan, don't they have lunch break in the middle of the trading day? 2 times in the scene
Why the MARKET Is More FRAGILE Than EVER | Bryce Roberts on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 15:22 Jordi Hays I want to ask you how you're, uh, you know, the night offline, how you're trading the tariffs in terms of like, you know, uh, Japanese fashion and collectibles, which I'm sure you're, I'm sure you're making.
Chris Power (Hadrian) on Building Autonomous Factories
- ▶ 10:14 Chris Power And then it's, you know, Germany, South Korea, Japan are the best machine makers.
- ▶ 14:14 Chris Power So we have so much work to do here in the US that we'd love, we'd love to support our allied partners in Europe and the, you know, the Middle East and countries like Japan re-industrialize as well.
Delian Asparouhov on Near Death Experiences, Deflecting Asteroids, and the Magic of Venture.
- ▶ 19:52 unnamed speaker Uh, that probably unlocks point to point as well then, like the SpaceX point to point, just like using the rockets to get from New York to Japan as well.
Michael Mignano on Building Anchor, Social Podcasting, and the Future of Oboe.
- ▶ 6:06 John Coogan He was out in Japan a bunch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 John Coogan Good guy in Japan, huge in Japan, honestly.
He's POURING Money Into Technology Investments
- ▶ 1:50 unnamed speaker Go to Japan, study how to make sushi for 10 years, and then go get a job at Nobu and just sit at the sushi bar.
What is PALANTIR? (And Why it's RIPPING!)
From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise)
- ▶ 1:24 unnamed speaker So he was born, uh, on the 11th of August in 1957 in Tosu, which is the southeastern part of Japan's Kyoshu Island. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:13 unnamed speaker So this still is very much around, um, in Japan.
- ▶ 11:41 unnamed speaker And so I think through, through the, through the gambling business and through kind of their family growing, he meets this guy, Den Fujita, who is an entrepreneur who brought, uh, McDonald's to Japan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 unnamed speaker SoftBank was Japan's largest distributor of PC software.
- ▶ 32:06 unnamed speaker So he launches basically teams in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina.
- ▶ 38:06 unnamed speaker In June of 2010, it's a 133 slide deck with outsized predictions like advancements in artificial intelligence will surpass the human brain, life expectancy in Japan will reach 200 years, and a new era of hyperconnected communication 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:19 unnamed speaker You built one of the biggest companies in Japan.
- ▶ 52:29 unnamed speaker You know, venture capital didn't really exist in Japan.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 1:01:04 John Coogan And also like taking off the conspiracy hat, even if, even if we were just talking about like an ally, like let's say deep sea came from Japan.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 31:43 John Coogan And so the app launched in China, Japan, Europe, and the U S with the U S
Insurance Companies Explained (How they actually work)
- ▶ 56:21 John Coogan And so yeah, there's a guy showing, uh, images from Japan.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 46:19 John Coogan Um, I didn't realize this, but there's this great chart in here of the countries with nine plus resorts operating at least five lifts, and it's the United States, then Japan, then France, Italy, Austria.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 22:17 John Coogan Why ensure cross, why endure cross-border headaches or compete with spendthrift foreigners like SoftBank of Japan, uh, as they bid up valuations of today's sexy AI startups.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 1:36:54 John Coogan Average Japanese bank, pledge, anyone employed by this bank who has stolen money or caused others to steal from the bank will pay for it with his or her own property and then commit suicide. 2 times in the scene
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 2:36:16 John Coogan Are you familiar with the Japanese Keiretsu? 2 times in the scene
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 3:01:50 John Coogan But then again, uh, I was reflecting on the fact that maybe, like, 10 or 15 years ago, there was this, there was all these stories about, oh, well, in Japan, they're like this cashless society, they have this great NFC technology, you just…
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 1:00:30 Jordi Hays You know, in Japan. 2 times in the scene
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 2:20 Jordi Hays Fresh is almost always better, so, in this case, I'm taking some, ah, sparkling yuzu, one of my favorite little, cute little beverages, straight from Japan, and we're gonna mix the, ah, um, the Volta