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Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:48 John Coogan Yeah, and I'm raising debt, equity, doing all sorts of deals, uh, making things happen, making big offers to AI researchers, rebuilding the team, bringing in Alex Wang, Nat Friedman,
- ▶ 16:15 John Coogan Nat Friedman's not here anymore, but we have a really strong relationship with open AI for the models and Azure in the enterprise.
Social Network Sequel Trailer, Fable 5 Sparks Safety Debate, SpaceX IPO Watch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:22 unnamed speaker What's going on with Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Alex Wang.
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:00 unnamed speaker Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Alex Wong.
Tech Earnings Quadkill, Red Button vs Blue Button | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:10 unnamed speaker I think, uh, it took, I mean, I remember Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross going through Techery and talking about, uh,
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:15 unnamed speaker You also got Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:25 John Coogan And I remember listening to him on Stratechery talk to Ben Thompson alongside Nat Friedman and say, yeah, based on, based on ChatGPT, NVIDIA seems sort of undervalued.
The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- ▶ 3:33 unnamed speaker So many of the other companies in the AI space were losing money, and so the foundation labs are losing money, and NVIDIA's profit margin went from like, 30% to 60% gross margins, and the, ah, it's borne out in market cap, so NVIDIA added…
Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:21 unnamed speaker Last year, Nat Friedman with the plastic list, like, really shift the, shifted the conversation to, uh, levels of microplastics, and I think people kind of, like, stop paying attention to lead, but.
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 9:36 John Coogan And Alex Wang is not, uh, Nat Friedman's not, but I would love the social network three.
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 13:48 unnamed speaker And it seems still reasonable that even if he's not entirely a researcher, he's a deals guy, you have him, and then you have Nat Friedman, who's able to, who's worked with Ilya, and you have the pieces of the team to put together the right…
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:19:14 John Coogan That's Nat Friedman core.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 0:24 John Coogan Great product, obviously led by Nat Friedman when he was there.
- ▶ 1:48:03 John Coogan They got Nat Friedman.
The State Of AI in 15 Minutes
- ▶ 6:54 unnamed speaker They got Nat Friedman.
Microsoft’s Cloud Outpaces Its AI Growth
- ▶ 0:20 unnamed speaker Great product, obviously led by Nat Friedman when he was there.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 53:47 Jordi Hays There's, there was that one that Nat Freeman and Daniel gross did that was magic.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 2:43:41 Will Depue They probably, they got, uh, Alex, um, and then supposedly Nat and or Daniel, uh, to kind of handle a little more of the, not the business side, but producty business stuff.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 9:56 John Coogan I'll play Nat Friedman. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 John Coogan Uh, you guys, this is extremely Matt Friedman coded.
Mike Knoop (Arc Prize) on Why Scaling AI Won’t Get Us to AGI
- ▶ 7:41 Mike Knoop I gotta say thank you to Nat Freeman.
BREAKING: DOGE Just Added a GAME CHANGER
- ▶ 5:02 John Coogan Uh, Nat Friedman's family home burned down. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:59 John Coogan This is an ancient Roman scroll flash fired by a volcano, and we got pictures of Nat Friedman here, uh, and so, uh, you can see from this scroll, uh, people have spent hundreds of years trying to unroll them, sometimes carefully, sometimes… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 John Coogan That Friedman's hunch was a good one.
- ▶ 19:31 John Coogan So, uh, Nat Friedman finds this guy, Sales, who's working on these scrolls, and, uh, he had set up Google alerts for him. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 John Coogan oh my goodness, I heard Friedman describe the contest on a podcast in March. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:38 John Coogan Ferrador texts his mom and then Friedman and the other contestants about what he'd found fighting back tears of joy.
- ▶ 33:46 John Coogan Some submissions were ho-hum, but a handful showed that Friedman's gamble had paid off.
- ▶ 37:53 John Coogan Barring a mass relocation, Friedman is working to refine what he's got. 6 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 2:47 John Coogan Feels like somebody who would, you know, be working for Nat Friedman or get a Teal Fellowship. 2 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:52:27 John Coogan Uh, uh, Garrett Todd says, there is a real, there's, I think he's saying, there's one real renaissance man left, and it is Nat Friedman. 6 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 52:02 John Coogan I was actually thinking about this, like, uh, there's that, there's a funny Newsom announcement where he was like, we're removing the red tape for all the fire victims, and Nat Friedman. 2 times in the scene
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 52:48 Jordi Hays Get inspired by Nat Friedman, take 500 K and create a public good out of it.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 2:32:17 John Coogan Anyway, uh, let's go to Nat Friedman.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 1:31:39 John Coogan Cameras, video feeds, uh, I mean, I was talking to Nat Friedman about this, and he was like, oh, people are worried about, like, you know, will the AI be able to access the New York Times or something, and he was like, based on the data…
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 1:05:04 unnamed speaker I mean, the other thing is, uh, you know, Nat Friedman also hates leaf blowers and he put out that call for the robot that picks up the leaf one by one. 3 times in the scene
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 1:44:28 John Coogan And that's the Lockheed Grooms, the Nat Freedmans, these new generation of capital allocators that are doing very well versus the droves of Stanford grads who are just associates at large firms that are just churning through cold calls.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 1:03:35 John Coogan Kind of a Nat Friedman style.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:54:00 John Coogan And that's like the Nat Friedman website or like Gorin's website.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 2:44:00 John Coogan This is Nat Friedman with his, with his like one-off projects, the scrolls.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:09:17 Jordi Hays I'm excited to see more, like, I think, like, Nat Freeman tweeted out, like, I want, like, a, not a leaf blower, but, like, a little robot to, like, go and pick.
- ▶ 1:53:17 John Coogan Luke Ferretor is a genius hacker kid who, uh, was either the main winner of the scroll prize that Nat Friedman did, or a winner, and he, I think he wrote a bunch of machine learning code to help translate the ancient scrolls that were… 3 times in the scene
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 39:19 John Coogan I think, uh, Nat Friedman just posted that he has a hyperbaric chamber, and I was wondering, do you know if Brian Johnson sleeps in any crazy, like, hyperbaric chamber thing? 2 times in the scene
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- ▶ 3:36 unnamed speaker Because she's on, like, the Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross career.