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GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 31:09 John Coogan Uh, studios are trying to find the next potential horror hit that already has proven its appeal to Gen Z on YouTube, Reddit, or this is interesting, Roblox.
Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:07 unnamed speaker You could buy Reddit.
New Glenn Explodes, Enterprise AI Enters ROI Era, The Dinosaur Fossil Boom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:30 Jordi Hays Over on Reddit, r slash CFA.
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:57 Jordi Hays Let's head over to Reddit and check out what they're doing there.
Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
- ▶ 16:40 Brian Chesky Yeah, and actually the CEO of Reddit.
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:50 unnamed speaker And it always has been weird because I understand that like back in the day when they were competing directly with Twitter and Meta and Instagram and Reddit and all these different upstart high growth social networking companies, I believe… 2 times in the scene
The Great Peptide Debate with Martin Shkreli & Max Marchione
- ▶ 23:53 Martin Shkreli No matter how many people on Reddit think that they want to play Dr.
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
Citrini Research’s viral piece, AI and the economy, 90s Nostalgia | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:25 unnamed speaker So for somebody to be hitting Reddit at this moment and being frustrated, it's like, hey, maybe just, uh, you know, the, the state department put out like
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:34 unnamed speaker In February, 20, 26, you can make AI send you a morning summary of the top posts on Reddit from your Mac mini.
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:51 unnamed speaker Combine these two things, agents that can take many actions independently of their human operators, and a Reddit-like social site, which they can freely access, and something wonderful and bizarre happens. 2 times in the scene
Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
- ▶ 0:34 John Coogan And, I mean, if you're not familiar, Moldbook is essentially a clone of Reddit.
- ▶ 4:47 John Coogan We just gave them Reddit and they talked about their experiences as AI agents.
- ▶ 7:43 John Coogan Fell flat almost immediately, though, because as a human, you can browse freely, and you can also search, but Moldbook doesn't really deliver on, like, Reddit for AI. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:28 John Coogan Yeah, there's something about wrapping the text in a UI that feels familiar, that feels more human, because you're used to reading, like, you're, it's like the medium is the message, maybe, like, you're, you're seeing this LLM generated…
Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:32 John Coogan I mean, if you're not familiar, Moldbook is essentially a clone of Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:31 John Coogan My experience with Moldbook fell flat almost immediately, though, because as a human, you can browse freely, and you can also search, but Moldbook doesn't really deliver on, like, Reddit for AI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:18 John Coogan It used to be that if you wanted to fork Reddit, you had to find some like open source projects, somebody who had spent like weeks rebuilding the functionality and then you could do it, but you couldn't generate all the content.
Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker but what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what subreddits?
Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 19:00 Peter Steinberger I don't know what they trained their model on, how much of Reddit is in there or whatever, but it, it behaves so good in, in a discord, like we programmed it.
X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:45 John Coogan Anti-ads, anti-ads, but I just see, like, what does it take to get substack into the Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit category, sort of like Dakacorn category, and you imagine that for a lot of these, like, if you're, they're clearly trying to…
- ▶ 26:50 unnamed speaker Create like insane fan fiction style hero's journey, kind of standardized plot, but for a specific sub community, you'll have like one subreddit where everyone has watched it.
The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:14 unnamed speaker When I search best backpack for men, I can scroll down and find a Reddit result from, it's the second result after Nordstrom.
Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:07 John Coogan But, but again, to, to, to understand, it seems like Gemini understood the assignment, but still ultimately leaned on Reddit data and broad internet data, and did not come up with any unique joke that had never existed on the internet…
The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:39 John Coogan So, so Reddit, uh, why were they, why were, why was Reddit a sitting duck? 7 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:53 unnamed speaker And, and remember the, the two days after every single Reddit post, at least every other was like, I could just cancel my membership. 2 times in the scene
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:01 John Coogan The other interesting thing is that because they don't do this, like, regular tender offers that SpaceX does, there's a lot of employees on Reddit who are kind of, like,
Thursday's Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:49 unnamed speaker Like Reddit is clearly very valuable since it kind of, you know, provided the backbone for GPT-III.
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:58 unnamed speaker So Reddit's twice the size, market cap wise. 4 times in the scene
George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions
- ▶ 8:28 unnamed speaker There's people that were posting on Reddit.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
- ▶ 10:46 unnamed speaker Yeah, Reddit threads.
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 9:27 Jordi Hays But it's way different than you with Reddit back in the day where you're like, okay, we need a little bit of cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:06 Alexis Ohanian So CPG days, you know how important having a subreddit is to the successor product, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:18 Alexis Ohanian So Reddit had a version, a third party version of this was like the remind me bot.
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 48:20 John Coogan I mean, they pay Reddit, they pay the New York Times, they pay all sorts of things.
Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President.
- ▶ 14:12 John Coogan I mean, they pay Reddit, they pay the New York Times, they pay all sorts of things.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 15:32 John Coogan Reddit did this too.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 2:04:09 Jordi Hays Well, there's protests right now on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
- ▶ 17:32 unnamed speaker Finding a short YouTube video on it was super effective because you're like, I don't have to Google and I don't have to find this summary and I don't have to piece together this Reddit thread and that blog post and this news article.
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 27:41 Jordi Hays It is interesting because, uh, previously when people were trying to understand maybe a small health issue they're having, they would go do a Google search, add Reddit to it, and then they would look through the comments, and the comments… 2 times in the scene
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 1:05 unnamed speaker It is interesting because, uh, previously when people were trying to understand maybe a small health issue they're having, they would go do a Google search, add Reddit to it, and then they would look through the comments and the comments… 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 2:24:40 Jordi Hays So one of the things that there was, there was a, there was, so there's a Reddit thread and who knows if this is real could be, 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 29:42 John Coogan There's been discussions about like, maybe we need a Reddit for, are we dating the same man?
- ▶ 2:38:00 Jordi Hays Very Reddit-coded.
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 37:57 unnamed speaker Very Reddit-coded.
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 35:14 unnamed speaker And, uh, Reddit says it's still possible.
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 1:36:33 John Coogan And it was kind of a funny joke, but it was literally the top result for joke Reddit on Google.
HONEY Founder Responds to MegaLag -- Ryan Hudson on TBPN
- ▶ 19:57 John Coogan And so you have this consumer narrative that's going, going like crazy on Reddit and other places about, um, What about the specific claim of, uh, like rewriting cookies and, and affiliate codes where, you know, 3 times in the scene
Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
- ▶ 4:57 Immad Akhund And these people, you know, most entrepreneurs have friends that are entrepreneurs, or they are in communities, so it's not just on X, right, like it's Facebook groups, it's YouTube, it's Reddit, et cetera, and like Mercury is all over…
- ▶ 17:41 Immad Akhund So, obviously, I'm on X, and I'm very active there, but a lot of our conversations that are happening on Reddit are not, like, with me or someone at Mercury kind of participating, so I do think
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 5:03 Amjad Masad Like, you know, there, there's the guy that lost six months of work on, on Reddit.
Conor Macdonald on "Why Meta Ads Are Failing" and "How AI is Saving E-Commerce".
- ▶ 7:06 unnamed speaker There's already Reddit threads about you, right? 2 times in the scene
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 8:51 Sean Frank Famously, there's Reddit, which has never been able to monetize well.
Scott Wu on Cognition, Devin, and the Evolution of AI Agents.
Alexis Ohanian reflects on Reddit, the changing internet, and the future of Digg.
- ▶ 2:15 Alexis Ohanian and I told Kevin this later, I was like, I debated actually buying it and then just redirecting it to Reddit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:02 Alexis Ohanian At Reddit, there were self posts, and that was just an invention by some random Redditor who guessed how to sort of hack and make self-referential links.
- ▶ 7:55 unnamed speaker Reddit now has Reddits for all sorts of different communities. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 unnamed speaker If you were in control of X as, as somebody who built, you know, one of the biggest social, you know, platforms in the world and in Reddit, if you were in control of X, how would you control this sort of dynamic where this quote unquote… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 unnamed speaker Uh, I wanted to know, are there any underrated reddits, reddit communities that you think might be worth taking a little tour into? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:33 Alexis Ohanian Having a certain amount of freedom from LPs and, and like, 10% of our AUM is, is my own money too, which, which doesn't hurt, but like, you gotta think, 2000 20, the year I left Reddit, one of the first investments I made was in a women's… 2 times in the scene
Nic Carter talks crypto, meme coins, and the regulatory environment.
- ▶ 3:33 Nic Carter Um, so we, we hated Ethereum proof of stake specifically, and I think I found them on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
The BILLIONAIRE Saving THE WEST
- ▶ 15:23 unnamed speaker Uh, that actually followed the company of Colorado, uh, carp started to gain a following, becoming a chief executive, uniquely suited to a time when Reddit threads and viral clips can shape a company's identity as much as earning calls and…
The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- ▶ 46:54 unnamed speaker It's probably a few deep, uh, Ben, but, uh, uh, this is a screenshot from Reddit.
What Open AI Got WRONG
- ▶ 14:13 unnamed speaker And so, uh, Ishan Wong, uh, who is, I think the CEO of Reddit, um, says Sputnik showed that the Soviets could do something the U S couldn't a new fearsome power.
The Character AI Controversy (Role Play)
- ▶ 13:51 unnamed speaker Um, got another one from, uh, Rahul's your interest rates, uh, wake up breakfast, Soylent, 30 milligram SSRI, chat with Yandir GF on Character AI for four hours, daily standup, ask for mental health day, lunch, Soylent, protest Reddit API…
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 2:00:14 John Coogan Justine Moore, the venture twins over at Andreessen says, deep seek censorship is no match for the jailbreakers of Reddit.
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 1:16:12 unnamed speaker So I, on the r slash drones Reddit.
- ▶ 1:49:38 John Coogan Um, and so, uh, planning a weekend trip based on hidden gems off Reddit, my budgets, and interest. 3 times in the scene
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 1:05:55 John Coogan I mean, that's the beauty of X is that it's not designed like siloed reddits.
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 27:08 Jordi Hays It's the same thing to me as somebody going around being racist online, especially like, I mean, it's very context dependent, but it's different if somebody wants to have an Anon profile and go on Reddit and be in WallStreetBets, that's…
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:21:25 John Coogan And I called the Four Seen because I was like, I, like, like, okay, like, I'm getting screwed for like, 300 bucks, but at the very least, like, I, and, and the reviews, if you search, like, guest reservations, Reddit, it's all just like,…
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:01:25 John Coogan And every time they put stuff up, it just goes viral on X and Reddit, and it's big.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 52:50 Jordi Hays Just, like, let, let, let, let Reddit, like, reaction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:08 Jordi Hays And maybe they have a GitHub, but they're not on X or Reddit or LinkedIn.
- ▶ 2:02:19 John Coogan Um, have you ever seen Peter's, uh, AMA on Reddit after he posted, after he published Zero to One, he did an AMA, and somebody asked him, like, great AMA.
- ▶ 2:15:55 Jordi Hays Uh, it was, uh, Reddit-like product. 2 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 20:55 unnamed speaker And it's also this type of like, like she did not give this level of, of, of, uh, you know, benefit of the doubt to Ben Horowitz when he was quoting a Redditor using the R word non-pejoratively.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 1:19:07 John Coogan Huge, huge, huge Reddit, huge, there's whole YouTube channels about the Palantir stock, and they're having a good year.
- ▶ 1:29:30 Jordi Hays He felt like it was too much of an echo chamber up there, and they're building basically these, like, personal GPUs that you can put on your, your, um, right on your desk and run, uh, run their model, like, locally, nothing cloud, nothing…
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 1:48:35 Jordi Hays And Truffle, the product that he's building, he's building it in part for, um, you know, people on the, the Reddit, uh, Llama sort of AI community and, and, and a variety of other sort of customer types.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 19:45 John Coogan Doxed on Kiwi Farms and Four Chan, Reddit thread about your family and friends, and get swatted.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 1:30:09 John Coogan And it's a screenshot from relationship advice.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 50:39 John Coogan Uh, he says, the inevitable AI side hustle is to flood TikTok reels and shorts with AI edited subway surfer video plus top Reddit posts plus text to speech.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:15:25 John Coogan Says, my post is the top post of all time in the r slash cursor. 2 times in the scene
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 31:48 John Coogan Like, he was an engineer at some company, and another engineer posted on Reddit complaining about him, and
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 55:32 Jordi Hays If Nancy Pelosi texts me and, and the Reddit stock's going up and she says, go long soy, go long.
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- ▶ 1:08:08 unnamed speaker Yeah, even the, um, even the present prevalence of, I, I don't know if this made it in the stack, but there was somebody tweeted, I think it was like, on the, um, character AI Reddit, and it was like, so long, their favorite character that…
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 41:58 Jordi Hays And it's just trained on Reddit, so it's soy.