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Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN Aug 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:11 John Coogan The result is an absurd new benchmark for Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN Aug 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:37 unnamed speaker Silicon Valley can do a better job talking to employees about what stock is worth in various scenarios, but no one is incentivized to do it.

U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN Jul 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:46 John Coogan Uh, Dean says, do we think the Silicon Valley leaders who were so up in arms about using Chinese LLMs last week will be similarly outraged about the U.S. government's decision to ban import of all advanced robotics from all foreign…
  • ▶ 27:02 John Coogan I will say that I am in Silicon Valley this week and Dwarkesh is capturing the zeitgeist.

RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:28 Tae Kim You see, like, um, you see, uh, when the president of Korea came to San Francisco area last week, you know, they had like a day in the Valley.

Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN Jul 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:56 unnamed speaker The, the dividing line in Silicon Valley right now, and it's a lot on the open source side. 2 times in the scene

U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN Jul 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:50 John Coogan So, Silicon Valley and Washington are debating a multi-billion dollar question.
  • ▶ 20:33 John Coogan The birthing fees are negligible, making it one of the cheapest places to live in uber-wealthy Silicon Valley.

IBM's AI Rollercoaster, Demis Calls for AI Watchdog, NY Pauses AI Data Centers | Diet TBPN Jul 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:00 unnamed speaker Uh, it's drawing up plans for data centers that look more like Silicon Valley tech campuses or art museums rather than windowless rectangles that neighbors often grouse about resembling prisons.

Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:02 unnamed speaker I think we're going to dig into it and see what you think, what I think once we dig into it, but Getty Images, we know and love them from their trove of Silicon, of, uh, Silicon Valley Titans photographed at Sun Valley, which is happening…

Ben Thompson Explains the XBOX Disaster Jul 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:02 Ben Thompson Uh, the Silicon Valley lemonade stand inflation is absolutely the worst in the world.

China Considers AI Export Controls, SK Hynix $28B IPO, Banks Target Payment Business | Diet TBPN Jul 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:58 unnamed speaker 5.2 in particular recently impressed Silicon Valley by performing close to leading us models at a much lower cost.

Alex Hormozi's Playbook for Building Billion-Dollar Businesses Jul 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:33 Jordi Hays John is, you know, obviously pretty good at media, and, but, and was like, the, the, his channel was like just following his interests, like Silicon Valley history.
  • ▶ 37:51 John Coogan uh, he, he, he says you can instantly tell if someone has had their downfall, had their darkest moment, you know, they've been through the ringer, they got chewed up and spit out by Silicon Valley or private equity or whatever industry…
  • ▶ 55:55 John Coogan It seems like in Silicon Valley is often, uh, you know, Naval talks about this, like there's value. 2 times in the scene

Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN Jul 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:38 John Coogan The black pill was seeing the entire, the terrible quality of the software and interaction with the contractors coming from Silicon Valley.

Rocket Lab Enters SpaceX Arena, Meta’s Prediction Market, America’s Tech Wishlist | Diet TBPN Jul 1, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:04 John Coogan Silicon Valley is unimaginative, unimaginative by comparison, but Mary Schtickner Gifford from Alpine, Utah says she wants musical vision,

Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN Jun 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN Jun 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:02 John Coogan Some of these companies, Fortune 500, they just have global footprints, so they got to use the models everywhere, ideally, unless they do all of their software engineering in Silicon Valley.

🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN Jun 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:45 Chess Content Creator And the reason I know it's him is, first of all, his friends are all these Silicon Valley and ex-standard founders, and I put this account into a database called Opening Tree, which allows me to

Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN Jun 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:24 unnamed speaker Despite Silicon Valley's enthusiasm, enthusiasm for AI's promise, the broader population has become very wary, fearing widespread job losses.

WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN Jun 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:20 unnamed speaker But, uh, Silicon Valley has always been so high growth and positive sum that relatively good behavior is usually the equilibrium. 2 times in the scene

Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions May 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:58 Brad Gerstner Well, I mean, if I, if I size up the debate in Silicon Valley, right, there are the, the bears who've been bearish on AI for, let's call it a while.
  • ▶ 13:58 Brad Gerstner And lest we be overconfident in Silicon Valley, let's remember the activists, a small group of activists,
  • ▶ 39:52 Brad Gerstner I mean, it's, it's, it's really, there is no historical precedent.

The Lean Startup Author on What Ruins Good Companies May 26, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The lean startup, uh, was foundational to me when I came to Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 29:00 Eric Ries I was always a big, you know, everyone at Silicon Valley, I'm like, we're into employee ownership, but I didn't know it was like an ideological thing.
  • ▶ 33:10 unnamed speaker Everlane, you know, darling of Silicon Valley, you know, raised a bunch of venture, very strong mission, ultimately to get swallowed up by the beast that it sought to displace.

IPO Giga Boom, World’s Fairs of the Past | Diet TBPN May 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:35 unnamed speaker Anyway, before splashy Silicon Valley product launches in the annual consumer electronics show, the world showcased the, its latest in, in innovations at high-profiled world's fairs.

Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN May 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:30 unnamed speaker I go back to how Silicon Valley was extremely skeptical of Facebook.

SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN May 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN May 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:04 unnamed speaker The problems that were downstream of both the Zerp era and the end of the Zerp era were suffered mostly and benefited mostly on like tech companies and Silicon Valley companies that had really long cashflow horizons.

Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN May 14, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:44 unnamed speaker A lot of these things, you know, in the, in the context of Silicon Valley, it's like a two billion dollar deal or a company that's doing forty billion in revenue.
  • ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker Uh, so it's not shocking that they aren't there, but, uh, it does feel like there's a little bit of a disconnect between the conversation that's happening in Silicon Valley and the conversation that's happening on the global geopolitical…

Altman’s Testimony, AI SPV Drama, Ebay Rejects $GME Bid | Diet TBPN May 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:49 unnamed speaker He says, uh, this sort of talk is fairly commonplace these days on the battlefield that is Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 10:28 unnamed speaker The special purpose vehicles are rocking the valley right now.

Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products May 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:56 Brian Chesky You know, Silicon Valley's become more vibe and trend-based than when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, although it was back then, and one of the things I think when people see enterprise companies doing well, they go into it, and I think… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:11 Brian Chesky I think the highest turnover job of any executive at Silicon Valley might be the CMO.

Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN Apr 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker Uh, in other news, uh, for more than a year, Silicon Valley has buzzed about Cursor's growth and whispered about its margins.

Gary Vee Says the Smartest Investors Are Going Analog Apr 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:17 Gary Vaynerchuk Well, when I started building vFriends, and like, building this Pokemon Sesame Street thing, yes, there was a lot of blockchain in it, but it was a lot of my smartest friends in Silicon Valley five years ago were like, this AI thing is…

Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN Apr 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:34 unnamed speaker Uniform of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN Apr 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:45 unnamed speaker Black Forest Labs has 70 people and is taking on Silicon Valley's giants.

The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN Apr 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:27 John Coogan Uh, the powerful, low-cost attack drone the U.S. is using in its war with Iran doesn't come from one of America's more than 400 venture-backed drone startups, and it isn't the product of Silicon Valley ingenuity.

Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:52 unnamed speaker The change is part of an attempt to turn around Apple's fortunes in AI where it has lagged behind Silicon Valley peers and could allow Apple to generate more money from third party AI subscriptions through the app store.

The Great Peptide Debate with Martin Shkreli & Max Marchione Mar 23, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 14:37 Martin Shkreli What is this urge by the valley, and I blame the valley, uh, to go backwards in time and space?
  • ▶ 17:37 unnamed speaker Is it possible to do the type of study that you're talking about with Silicon Valley backing?
  • ▶ 30:06 Martin Shkreli I think that's something SV is very reluctant to do. 2 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup Mar 13, 2026 · 1 mention

Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN Mar 12, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:40 unnamed speaker Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, co-founder of the world's second largest software company is Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:48 unnamed speaker Paramount, Warner Brothers, HBO, CBS, TikTok, Oracle, uh, Silicon Valley's Taz.

Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:12 unnamed speaker Despite the company's defiance, Silicon Valley's biggest players have remained silent.

FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:53 Ben Thompson I think there, you know, just in general, there is this very naive view of the world that doesn't understand why militaries are important and necessary, and I think Silicon Valley got itself in a lot of trouble by giving in to this naive…

Nvidia Earnings, Paramount Emerges Victorious, Block Layoffs | Diet TBPN Feb 27, 2026 · 1 mention

Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:57 John Coogan And that just completely goes against everything everyone's saying in, in Silicon Valley.

Bombshell: Fed Report Says Most Firms See No AI Impact Feb 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:19 unnamed speaker And so there's just this disconnect between, like, what do the government statistics look like, and what is, what is the government operating against, and then what's the Silicon Valley narrative, and, like, where do these two meet the…
  • ▶ 15:23 unnamed speaker And that just completely goes against everything everyone's saying in, in Silicon Valley.

Full Interview: Bill Gurley Thinks College Kills Creativity Feb 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:22 John Coogan That's what's happening in Silicon Valley is going to have an impact and how
  • ▶ 12:01 Bill Gurley Well, the first thing, I mean, the first thing is you develop, and I think this is all the great VCs in the Valley, you, you develop this hyper FOMO, uh, of anything and everything.

Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN Feb 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:24 unnamed speaker One that will win awards and make me a legend in Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 8:11 unnamed speaker The funding round includes a range of investors, including KOTU, Singapore's GIC, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and has become a who's who of Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com Feb 11, 2026 · 1 mention

FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN Feb 5, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:44 unnamed speaker The research efforts that are happening all over Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:48 Matt Schlicht I left high school and went to Silicon Valley, um, back in like, 2008 when I was 19.

Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Google targets Chinese Cyber Weapon, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Jan 31, 2026 · 1 mention

China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN Jan 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:28 John Coogan The Justice Department opens a criminal probe into Silicon Valley spy allegations.

Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:22 John Coogan The feature is a central piece of Apple's turnaround plan for the AI market where it has lagged behind Silicon Valley peers.

Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN Jan 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:15 John Coogan At the time, Murati was in the process of raising one of the largest seed rounds in Silicon Valley history.
  • ▶ 21:33 unnamed speaker So maybe that's like for China, it's like maybe the, you know, Silicon Valley has kind of found like pederasty from first principles.

The AI Power Backlash, the NYMag David Ellison profile, Google Personal Intelligence | Diet TBPN Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:45 unnamed speaker The skydance thesis according to a person that worked closely with David was that Hollywood wasn't prepared for the overwhelming economic force of a Silicon Valley billionaire throwing around his wealth and ambition.

Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN Jan 14, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:32 John Coogan It's time for Silicon Valley to actually get involved and organize in California. 3 times in the scene

The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN Jan 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:33 Jordi Hays We chose to live in Silicon Valley and whatever taxes, I guess they would like to apply.

Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN Jan 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:09 unnamed speaker Dan wonk says the most read essay from Silicon Valley this year was AI, 20, 27, the five authors who come from the AI safety world outline a scenario in which super intelligence wakes up in 20, 27, a decade later, it decides to annihilate…

OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation Dec 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:33 unnamed speaker Who would have thought that out of the Silicon Valley tech people, they would be using diesel while the big guy is, uh, is using clean energy to power his social network.

Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment Dec 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 John Coogan Hiring a storyteller, which apparently is the, is the hottest topic in Silicon Valley, thanks to our friend Katie Dayton over at the Wall Street Journal, who made this go mega viral by posting an article in the Wall Street Journal all…
  • ▶ 4:48 John Coogan One more example, uh, that I mentioned earlier, early storytellers in Silicon Valley, Guy Kawasaki, uh, he was, he was one of Apple's employees, originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984.

Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN Dec 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:08 unnamed speaker Hollywood is competing with Silicon Valley, Apple, Amazon, Google Meta, preserving some notion of competition in and between legacy Hollywood, risk winning a battle and losing a war the old media companies need to, uh, more of the right…

Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN Dec 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:04 unnamed speaker The company was two weeks into a marathon coding session in a rented house in Silicon Valley, which I think he took us on a tour of.
  • ▶ 21:20 unnamed speaker Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks.

ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN Dec 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:14 unnamed speaker A piece about David Sachs saying that, uh, the, the headline was, Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends.
  • ▶ 27:21 unnamed speaker The button down, this is the pre-Silicon Valley, I'm just in a t-shirt era, but it's post suits, you know, it's like, we're not suits, we're working in technology, we're still gonna throw on a collar, but we're gonna dress it down a little…

Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN Nov 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:24 unnamed speaker Blue Owl already had close ties with the organizer of the treat, Iconic Capital, which manages the personal fortunes of Silicon Valley elite, including Zuckerberg, and was a part owner of IPI. 2 times in the scene

Brian Chesky Live on TBPN Oct 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:31 Brian Chesky When I came to Silicon Valley, there was this thing called social networking and social networking was literally, as you can recall, 20 years ago, a way to connect with your friends.
  • ▶ 32:04 Brian Chesky Um, when I started in Silicon Valley, I remember I pitched an investor and one of the investors, I give him credit for being brutally honest. 2 times in the scene

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen live on TBPN Oct 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:18 unnamed speaker It was like really hot in Silicon Valley.

Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI Sep 27, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:23 John Coogan Everyone was thinking about, oh, the last time masa came out and was doing a big tour in Silicon Valley with, yeah, there's a whole generation of, of people that just know him for that investment.
  • ▶ 27:39 Catherine Boyle Um, and for a very long time, Silicon Valley didn't touch that category of investment.

Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption Sep 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:17 unnamed speaker If you want to move to the valley, you go to Stanford, DYC.

Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping Aug 23, 2025 · 1 mention

9 Mansions Every AI Researcher Should Own Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:14 unnamed speaker McKinney started his tech career in Silicon Valley in the 19 eighties as a founding vice president.

Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5 Aug 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 28:16 John Coogan Filled with legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and a wariness toward embracing tools that some in Silicon Valley view as their next century replacement.
  • ▶ 1:35:12 Marc Andreessen Um, and, um, I, I posted, I had it write a new season of the HBO Silicon Valley, you know, said 10 years later. 2 times in the scene

Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift Aug 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:36 Marc Andreessen Um, and, um, I, I posted, I had it right, uh, new season of the HBO Silicon Valley, you know, set 10 years later. 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked Aug 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:20 John Coogan This was of course, based on the list, which apparently has been going around Silicon Valley.

Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf Jul 19, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:25 John Coogan I'm, I'm building, I'm trying to build something really cool in Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 1:39:21 John Coogan Um, investors and founders, uh, screwing over early employees during an M&A is a time-honored tradition in Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 2:32:22 Martin Shkreli Uh, I, I, I will come back to you with a good parody of Silicon Valley.

E-Cigarettes: Now FDA-Approved? Jul 18, 2025 · 1 mention

Cognition AI Acquires Windsurf to Push AI Coding Jul 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:09 unnamed speaker I'm, I'm building, I'm trying to build something really cool in Silicon Valley.
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