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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment
- ▶ 12:05 John Coogan So in the wall street journal articles is the percentage of LinkedIn job postings in the U S that include the term storyteller doubled.
GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:01 unnamed speaker The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:41 Jordi Hays Yeah, so to give people, to give people context, a beat reporter might reach out to, they will actually adopt the strategy of just trying to wear someone down, where they will send hundreds of messages to individual people on, on the team,…
- ▶ 26:03 Jordi Hays LinkedIn says six months ago, but, but who's
Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:25 unnamed speaker Joe Weisenthal asked Nano Banana to create a really annoying LinkedIn profile.
OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:19 John Coogan So on LinkedIn, Sarah Fryer said, uh, she wasn't asking for a backstop for OpenAI's investments.
- ▶ 21:44 John Coogan XAI and X are obviously the, the most prominent example, but even like LinkedIn and Microsoft, and I don't think the US government should backstop data center loans
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:29 unnamed speaker It'd be so easy for Instagram to have an email newsletter product, or LinkedIn to have an email newsletter product built in, ah, right?
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 3:26 Brian Chesky Maybe other than like LinkedIn.
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 0:34 Alexis Ohanian LinkedIn media empire. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 John Coogan We'll just, uh, we'll just run a raffle on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 8:03 Alexis Ohanian It's not, not my idea, whether it's botted, whether it's quasi AI, you know, LinkedIn slop, like having proof of life, like live viewers and live content is really fucking valuable to hold attention.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 3:41 unnamed speaker I'm going to, I'm going to try to find it, but it's, it's somebody searched like vibe coding cleanup specialist, and there's people on, on LinkedIn now that are, that are finding employment around cleaning up vibe coding products.
- ▶ 40:27 Peter Tuchman I mean, the first IPO I think I traded was LinkedIn, right?
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 12:12 Jordi Hays I mean, LinkedIn.
- ▶ 1:09:14 John Coogan When I think of the far big mega side of the barbell, I think of the platforms, Spotify, Facebook, Meta, YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, the networks, and they actually accrue a ton of the value and, and it, and it is extremely hard to start…
Dr. Drew on Tech, COVID, and Living a Happy Life
- ▶ 14:41 unnamed speaker When I think of the far big mega side of the barbell, I think of the platforms, Spotify, Facebook, Meta, YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, the networks, and they actually accrue a ton of the value and, and it, and it is extremely hard to start…
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 33:34 John Coogan I guess Microsoft bought LinkedIn and that's kind of a niche, uh, social network, very profitable business, great business, but it's, it is like its own thing.
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 6:58 unnamed speaker I guess Microsoft bought LinkedIn and that's kind of a niche, uh, social network, very profitable business, great business, but it's, it is like its own thing.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 28:58 Jordi Hays Yeah, my, my big, my big question is, is somebody like this, you could have them working in your office as a full-time employee, and they would probably still, there's a good chance they would still keep doing this thing with people on…
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 1:51:49 John Coogan Now it's like,
- ▶ 2:07:25 John Coogan So they can talk about the biology terms, and that's something that, how are you going to search that on LinkedIn?
Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker Like, if a U.S. business is being affected by the tariffs, that person's going to go on LinkedIn and TikTok, or they'll come on TBPN, and they'll say, like, yeah, my costs are up, you know, whatever, 300%, and.
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 20:13 Mike Vernal Um, though I, I recently discovered that she sent me like a LinkedIn message in like December, 2016, which I did not see until like two weeks ago.
Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
- ▶ 2:06 Will Brown There's a surprising lot of alpha still on X just from places where you don't like, like, so there's places, uh, I have not found much alpha on LinkedIn.
This Company is Changing Cybersecurity | Alex Dhillon on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 6:22 Alex Dhillon and I both deal with a ton of LinkedIn inbound or email inbound.
Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
- ▶ 7:49 Immad Akhund Like, people have a pretty big digital presence, uh, they have better websites, they have a LinkedIn, they have X, et cetera, uh, and, you know, their descriptions, their VCs, like, if a, you know, if a Sequoia funded company shows up, you…
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker He's got the LinkedIn set up.
Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
- ▶ 1:39 Jordi Hays You look like you're having fun, but your, your LinkedIn profile is dead serious.
Scott Wu on Cognition, Devin, and the Evolution of AI Agents.
Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
- ▶ 25:13 Shaan Puri I'm putting that in my LinkedIn right now.
Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
- ▶ 17:27 unnamed speaker Add him on LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 20:09 Jordi Hays If I ask somebody that's kind of even LinkedIn mode, like they usually know who you are, right?
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 7:11 unnamed speaker But the challenge is that X is a very specific type of audience that is not necessarily reflective of certainly not the LinkedIn audience. 3 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker DJI's founder didn't like that Gwynn was taking credit for the development of the Phantom and was calling himself CEI of DJI Innovations, a title that still stands on his LinkedIn page.
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 1:32:40 Jordi Hays Cause if I go on the link, if I go to LinkedIn right now, I'm like, this guy wants to get into YC.
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 52:09 unnamed speaker Carta's founder just posted a pretty detailed explanation of their strategy shift, dot, dot, dot, on LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 2:10:45 Jordi Hays Instead of throwing up the open to work thing on his LinkedIn, he's actually saying what he wants to work on and what's, what's interesting about his point of view.
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:05:02 John Coogan He was huge on LinkedIn early on.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 2:03:31 Jordi Hays Of, like, on X or LinkedIn, like, yes, you should be, like, a personality-led brand, and, like, your customers should know who they're buying from, and there's value there, but, but, like, the, the BPN guy doesn't, he's not