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Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 39:51 John Coogan This will be on TikTok, maybe.
The Genius Behind Severance’s Surreal World – Jeremy Hindle
- ▶ 14:31 unnamed speaker You, you need to build a resume of some kind, but it's kind of hard in the TikTok age to do anything related to that.
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 19:59 Roy Lee Everyone swipes on TikTok, Instagram for an hour just to make sure the viral senses are refreshed, and we, we, we, we all do cold plunges, and we're, we're, we're ready to hit the day with, um, with caffeine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:47 Justine Moore I mean, as, as being the big hosts of content, but like there's all these massive companies in China, like by dance who have their own, um, have, have their own user generated content on like their version of Tik TOK and their version of…
- ▶ 1:49:27 George Hotz What about someone who lies in bed all day and watches TikTok?
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 34:41 John Coogan Cause you can imagine that, uh, there's a lot of folks who are AI curious on X, but then there's much broader, more viral audience, more general audience on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, what's working and what is, uh, is the… 2 times in the scene
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 34:41 Balaji Srinivasan There's X, there's Truth Social, and Gab, and whatever, all on the right, and there's Blue Sky, and Macedon, and Threads, and TikTok on the left, and there's the crypto networks like Noster, and Lens, and Farcaster, and so on, right?
We Went to DC to Interview Tech's Power Players
- ▶ 4:48 unnamed speaker Last year's theme was TikTok. 4 times in the scene
Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
- ▶ 18:32 Adam Kovacevich One is they have to, they have to say essentially that Facebook, that Meta doesn't compete with TikTok, right?
This Company Is Making Video Creation 100x Easier | Gaurav Misra on TBPN
- ▶ 11:55 unnamed speaker They're still spending two hours a day on Netflix, but we're not gonna suddenly, like, get, you know, a hundred hours a day, uh, even though people on, you know, TikTok, uh, entrepreneur influencers might, might want that. 6 times in the scene
Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- ▶ 12:01 unnamed speaker Uh, that's not, uh, about communication and picking up the phone, uh, but also, uh, also, uh, China, uh, they, they do have TikTok.
- ▶ 16:44 unnamed speaker On the ground in China, do they, ah, do, does the government or the, the military, I don't even know how much of this information would ever appear online and available, do they laugh at us for allowing TikTok and DJI and Unitree? 4 times in the scene
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 26:42 Mike Vernal There hasn't really been anything interesting on the consumer front in over a decade, like probably, I mean, if you ignore TikTok, and TikTok has like a million asterisks next to it, um, there, I mean, uh, it's basically ChatGPT, I guess,…
What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- ▶ 29:46 John Coogan So, uh, I mean, Larry Ellison is in the conversation to buy TikTok now.
The Real Cost of Ultra-Processed Food | Calley Means on TBPN
- ▶ 20:09 Calley Means Right now, there's a whole TikTok craze where they're shaming doctors for weighing patients or even talking about weight.
The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- ▶ 6:10 John Coogan Spotify, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, like those were the power law outcomes in media.
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker We, we had, uh, Jordan from China talk on just earlier, and I was asking him, I was like, do the Chinese laugh at us that we don't ban TikTok and DJI and Unitree and all these companies that are just obvious national security threats that… 2 times in the scene
Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- ▶ 17:28 Aravind Srinivas And, um, and then if a few people engage with that, like the TikTok algorithm, we're going to try to surface it to more people.
- ▶ 20:26 Aravind Srinivas So TikTok, if you notice TikTok has a shop tab. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:17 Aravind Srinivas Like CapCuts or TikTok have like different growth teams.
- ▶ 34:05 Jordi Hays Uh, every time I ask you one more question, I get one more question, and this, I promise, is the last, uh, without, without, uh, violating any NDAs, what, what's going on with, with TikTok, speaking of ByteDance, uh, we, there was a big… 3 times in the scene
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 6:22 Sheel Mohnot Um, I also think we should ban TikTok.
Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 25:10 unnamed speaker Uh, what's going on with tick tock?
Is AI RUINING How We THINK? | David Perell on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 6:46 Jordi Hays So maybe everybody just moves like all the time that was spent writing emails, just moves on to, you know, tick tock or, or X.
Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
- ▶ 13:37 unnamed speaker I wonder if there's also an effect where, um, just some of the first social networks probably accelerated more quickly to these highly diffuse algorithmic driven TikTok feeds that allow for smaller micro celebrities, essentially, whereas
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 1:15 John Coogan This must be TikTok.
Steven Schwarz (Whop) on Helping Creators Earn and the Future of Work
- ▶ 11:23 Steven Schwartz And, um, and now you look at TikTok shop and even Amazon's integrated a lot of lives, live shopping and, um, nobody cares more about something than what's happening right now.
Conor Macdonald on "Why Meta Ads Are Failing" and "How AI is Saving E-Commerce".
- ▶ 7:43 Jordi Hays Like, it seems like throughout the history of selling products online, like, things have gotten a bit rough, and then, you know, we got Instagram, or then we got Reels, or then we got, you know, TikTok, or whatever, and it just seems like… 2 times in the scene
Investing in the Future and the Importance of Science Fiction
- ▶ 13:35 Cyan Banister They think it's a worse place because they're on TikTok, because they're on social media, because they're being fed a feed of nonstop violence and death and Tesla cars blowing up.
Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
- ▶ 23:34 Joe Weisenthal I don't use TikTok. 2 times in the scene
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 12:05 unnamed speaker If even if it's, even if there's like a, you know, five percent chance, but the new network is, you know, I mean, that's what happened to TikTok, right?
- ▶ 20:52 Seth Rosenberg It created Tik Tok, right?
Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
- ▶ 24:51 Logan Bartlett I mean, I guess you could say TikTok is mobile Netflix in some ways, but like there wasn't a pure play mobile Netflix, like a Quibi that came out and was actually disruptive in some ways. 2 times in the scene
Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
- ▶ 8:33 Jordi Hays There's this, you know, general lens from some, some, some of the tech community that says it's, you know, it's open source, you know, it's not sort of the, the same type of risk as TikTok.
- ▶ 13:59 Jordi Hays One, uh, you know, uh, I'm sure you, uh, can only make sort of general predictions here, but do you think this whole TikTok thing gets resolved in the next month? 3 times in the scene
Chrisman Frank on AI Tutors, the Path to Learning, and Struggles with the Modern School System.
- ▶ 9:57 Jordi Hays Cause like one, one concern I have right now is that, uh, kids, when they're out of school, they're doing Roblox, they're watching TikToks, and then you put them in a classroom or you give them homework that's sort of built around this… 3 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian reflects on Reddit, the changing internet, and the future of Digg.
- ▶ 0:50 unnamed speaker So should we start with, should we start with TikTok or dig?
- ▶ 10:14 unnamed speaker You know, before we get into TikTok, I wanted to ask you, how would you, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 unnamed speaker Talk, I mean, we gotta hear about, we gotta hear about the TikTok bid. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:37 unnamed speaker I, I'd love to have you back on specifically when all the TikTok stuff is getting worked out.
"Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- ▶ 16:04 Keith Rabois Like once we get through tick tock, which will happen sooner rather later, I think robotics and humanoid robots are particularly severe, particularly severe threat.
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 30:49 John Coogan You know what they did on like, uh, you know, TikTok and Instagram where they'd be like, I followed a bunch of Nazi content, and then it gave me more Nazi content, and so it's like a Nazi algorithm.
- ▶ 1:01:13 John Coogan It's as shocked as the rest of the world that AI had gone mainstream and upset that he wasn't a part of it.
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 46:03 unnamed speaker What I'm getting at is like, it's similar to TikTok, where the number of people that are negatively affected by TikTok are the people that are thinking about, you know, uh, security, cybersecurity, geopolitics, thinking about, uh, dynamic,… 2 times in the scene
The Truth About Chinese Manufacturing (De Minimis)
- ▶ 14:19 Jordi Hays Well, this is, and that's, that's probably a reference to people ordering a hundred items on Timu, and then doing these sort of unboxing videos, these TikTok videos. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 John Coogan Microsoft, it doesn't really make that much sense, but, uh, Amazon or Walmart could be perfectly positioned because TikTok shop has been so successful.
- ▶ 17:32 John Coogan Um, moreover, this spend is more palatable and potentially sustainable than TikTok spend was. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 23:24 unnamed speaker Which we've talked about before, the same thing that TikTok did to scale. 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 1:04:37 John Coogan Um, seven, if deep seeks mobile app continues to top charts, it will join tick tock in the discussion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:07 John Coogan He says, fascinating to see some of the same folks who advocated hard for a TikTok ban now promoting a CCP AI op, uh, simply because they are jealous of a singularly transcendent American organization, Wild World. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:16 John Coogan Like you don't need to pull to refresh on TikTok.
- ▶ 2:01:31 Jordi Hays Same thing that's happening on TikTok.
- ▶ 2:06:22 John Coogan And obviously there could be national security impediments for us companies or consumers, given what we've seen with TikTok.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 0:44 Jordi Hays Uh, and I'll go out on a limb to say this is China's next attempt at a DJI TikTok type.
- ▶ 7:39 Jordi Hays Um, and so, uh, and not too dissimilar in my view, uh, to TikTok faking views, right?
- ▶ 42:06 Jordi Hays TikTok started spending aggressively on Snapchat and Instagram to acquire users where OpenAI is probably getting a lot of benefit from a revenue standpoint.
- ▶ 44:36 Jordi Hays I'm not, I'm not gonna, like, like, if you understand, I think it's, uh, not, uh, it's sort of disingenuous to say that DeepSeek is different than TikTok or DJI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:35 Jordi Hays He's giving off TikTok vibes here.
- ▶ 1:45:14 Jordi Hays I got an email, I got a text message today from somebody, I don't know if it was real or spam, but it was, they were claiming to be from TikTok, and I was like, you really didn't do your research. 2 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 30:58 unnamed speaker It's the only brand other than TikTok, which arguably was like, you know, not even a native Chinese company to, uh, to really get win over the hearts and minds of consumers globally and get this level of market share.
- ▶ 49:07 unnamed speaker Like, we can't, and they're like, but I like TikTok. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:01 unnamed speaker Um, and so, yeah, basically around the time that people got concerned about China, or sorry, TikTok. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:16 unnamed speaker And so this is like, to me, you know, for us, like, I think like TikTok is information warfare. 7 times in the scene
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 1:21:17 John Coogan Go viral on TikTok or get one corporate deal or call.
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 10:54 unnamed speaker Uh, TikTok has been going back and forth. 10 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 15:35 Jordi Hays Yeah, the press secretary is, is doing the, like, TikTok streaming, like, you know, midway. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:54 Jordi Hays Before we jump, we're gonna talk about TikTok today, but, um, I'd like to help our audience get a little bit more empathy with this story, 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Jordi Hays Shaky ground and could go away, and so I think for those people, um, the people running, like, TikTok shop agencies are gonna not, you know, they're gonna be, like, bummed out, but again, they can just pivot to focusing on these other…
- ▶ 24:37 Jordi Hays It makes sense that, uh, TikTok, which is, um, uh, you know, our enemy social media company was started by a guy who worked for our enemy finance automation company. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:26 Jordi Hays And, and, and to be clear, as much as we are dunking on, have, have dunked on TikTok, I've posted about it. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:51 John Coogan But, but there is like a very, uh, there's like a trade ratio there for, for the true fans watching versus, so there's always this question, especially on TikTok, it's like, how many true fans do these people have, or are they just going…
- ▶ 53:09 John Coogan Uh, has written about the TikTok ban many, many times. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:24 John Coogan And so you, you really like, like the thing that will kill TikTok is not, oh, be real, take one picture per day. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:14 Jordi Hays There was like an American girl who posted like a TikTok style video, like an exercise gear. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:57 Jordi Hays There is presently a bill in play to force a CCP-controlled company to sell TikTok, which would remain in operation but free of the CCP. 10 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 1:34:17 Jordi Hays If they know how to work, tick tock.
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 1:13:30 John Coogan TikTok says it plans to shut down the site unless the Supreme Court strikes down the law forcing it to sell. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:29 John Coogan Have you seen those, those recent like deep dives on TikTok shop, how people are just like straight up selling drugs, like via the TikTok shop. 2 times in the scene
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 14:28 John Coogan Maybe a TikToker, maybe an Instagram guy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:16 Jordi Hays Um, we need brain rot slop TikToks of, of.
How the LA Fires Started (8 Top Theories)
- ▶ 29:05 John Coogan And, uh, Raj Veer says number one on the app store and growing like wildfire, watch duty, wildfire maps, check out their strategies that went viral on TikTok. 2 times in the scene
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 59:49 John Coogan Uh, TikTok turns into meme coins that can be traded on decentralized exchanges all over the world. 2 times in the scene
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:39:50 John Coogan It's a, it's a real, it's a TikTok.
- ▶ 2:47:40 John Coogan To farm TikTok clips from the streams.
- ▶ 2:55:12 John Coogan Now you just upload it to TikTok.
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 8:41 Jordi Hays You know, everything from OpenAI to TrueSocial going public to an almost TikTok ban that didn't end up happening to software dying and being reborn to humanoid robots to OpenAI drama.
- ▶ 38:51 Jordi Hays TikTok was getting banned. 8 times in the scene
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 16:22 Jordi Hays Even two years ago, it had become counter-cultural on TikTok if you were a young man to make these vibe reels that were like religiously oriented and like,
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 36:16 John Coogan It's gonna look great on the Instagram, great on TikTok.
- ▶ 1:11:55 John Coogan TikTok taking off, we get reels.
- ▶ 1:56:19 John Coogan 250 K followers on Instagram, 900 K on TikTok, 150 on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 22:25 unnamed speaker She can still go on TikTok, she can go on Substack.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 10:28 John Coogan Facebook has had to go through major upheaval, especially on Instagram, as they moved away from the following feed to the algorithmic feed, like what TikTok does.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 0:33 Jordi Hays Tumblr, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, podcasting, Twitter, X, Blue Sky, Mastodon, Threads, you name it, she's dominated it.
- ▶ 9:05 John Coogan In the three months since she left the New York Times to join the Post, Lorenz has been breaking, has broken high impact stories about Facebook's smear campaign against TikTok, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 John Coogan Is TikTok more female? 2 times in the scene
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 59:27 unnamed speaker It's like more Instagram and Tik Tok focus. 5 times in the scene
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 2:07:26 John Coogan It's for the real builders, and they're the ones that should be, uh, rewarded, um, if you're just on WallStreetBets and TikTok, like, trying to read, you know, uh, technical analysis, like, uh, no, I think illiquidity is a feature, just…
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 51:33 Jordi Hays Do a piece on getting access to the TikTok feeds of thousands of overweight people and seeing if they, what's in the, you know, are they talking about it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34:03 John Coogan Uh, Aiden McCloud says, okay, this is wild, and it's a quote from Noah Smith that says, notably, heavy users of TikTok, i.e. those with three or more hours of daily screen time, demonstrated a roughly 50% increase in pro-China attitudes… 9 times in the scene