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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Snapchat comes up
Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:02 Jordi Hays They didn't win by launching a Snapchat clone as a separate app.
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:25 John Coogan He says, I actually think Snapchat for work might be a good idea in today's big companies. 2 times in the scene
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:39 unnamed speaker Then Snapchat was even like the younger crowd. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 unnamed speaker So it's possible that it, it can, um, but again, if they can solve the always on digital assistant, it is a massive, massive opportunity, but I'm just saying they're pricing a lot of that in right now when this company is four months old…
AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:01 Jordi Hays The district had sought more than sixty million, and I guess the total payout was twenty-seven million because it was split between YouTube and TikTok and Snap.
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:37 unnamed speaker And that seems like much more related to the main, like, you know, hatchet app that would have been glasses, right? 2 times in the scene
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 32:16 unnamed speaker Like, they've never had a full monopoly on social media, even, with TikTok and Snapchat and, uh, LinkedIn and Twitch and YouTube and Netflix and the podcast feed and SMS and iMessage.
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:14 John Coogan Is it because the super apps are getting more super in the sense that you don't need, you used to need, you needed Snapchat for stories, you needed TikTok for vertical video, you needed YouTube for a long form.
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:58 John Coogan But Meta's is, uh, 800 dollars, and Specs from Snap is 2200 dollars.
Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:19 unnamed speaker So Snapchat showed off specs.
AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:21 unnamed speaker The Snapchat threat came and sort of went.
Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:16 John Coogan And what's interesting is that it is not really this, the Sasspocalypse narrative, because even if you vibe code a Snapchat clone, you won't have the actual usage data, the network effect that exists, but the market has definitely turned…
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 27:13 Thomas Laffont So we did deals like Evernote and Box, and ironically, our most successful deal is one that broke all of the rules, ah, that I just laid out, which was Snapchat.
- ▶ 31:06 Thomas Laffont So I remember distinctly, uh, an investor when I called about the snap deal and saying, look, I know this is a bit off brand.
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:01 unnamed speaker Why is no one talking about Snapchat? 3 times in the scene
Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN
The $6M Verdict That Could Kill Social Media
- ▶ 18:05 unnamed speaker Sora app was basically the same as TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Snap, um, in terms of UI and UX design.
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:00 unnamed speaker Snapchat is an 11 and a half billion dollar company with a billion MAU and Q-three adjusted EBIT of a hundred and thirty two million.
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:11 John Coogan Like, exactly slow to move and launch competitive products, and so a lot of the, you see this continuously where Snapchat comes out, Stories is on a tear, and you're looking at the Snapchat growth curve, and you're like, this is gonna kill… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:11 John Coogan Like, exactly slow to move and launch competitive products, and so a lot of the, you see this continuously where Snapchat comes out, Stories is on a tear, and you're looking at the Snapchat growth curve, and you're like, this is gonna kill…
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:32 John Coogan But that era, like post Facebook, there was Foursquare, Twitter, Pinterest, Snap, there were just like a new one every year was popping up.
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…
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:39 John Coogan People sharing content through their Snapchat is a messenger.