Twitter, every mention
46 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Twitter
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone John Coogan 28Jordi Hays 7Kian Sadeghi 3Andrew Reed 3Sam Lessin 2Guillermo Rauch 2Delian Asparouhov 2Balaji Srinivasan 2Aidan McLaughlin 2Lachy Groom 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitter comes up
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:20 John Coogan When Twitter, when he purchased Twitter, the API got smaller and more expensive. 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay
- ▶ 8:14 unnamed speaker So, so is, is the Elon Twitter take private somewhat of an inspiration here? 5 times in the scene
Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom
- ▶ 19:00 Jordi Hays Uh, how much is the history between, uh, opening eyes, counsel, Bill, uh, who represented, he represented Twitter when Elon was trying to get out of the, the, the, the Twitter buyout, uh, and ultimately it feels like the X slash Twitter… 2 times in the scene
Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- ▶ 1:03 John Coogan Of course, he owns X and Twitter.
- ▶ 7:34 John Coogan At the same time, Elon was marshalling around sixty billion for, to buy out Twitter, something like that, forty-something billion, and then, ah, Intel's market cap, what, their two hundred twenty billion dollar company now, I think that… 3 times in the scene
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:19 Jordi Hays I mean, to date, the, the AI job loss has just been primarily from companies, I would say, still processing the Twitter acquisition.
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 18:22 Jordi Hays I would say still processing the Twitter acquisition and saying, hey, we just, we, we need 50% fewer people here.
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:00 unnamed speaker Twitter requires social podcasting app Breaker team to help build Twitter spaces.
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
- ▶ 1:35 John Coogan The Twitter team had been building that infrastructure for a while, but they were just moving slowly. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation
- ▶ 12:05 unnamed speaker I mean, Matt Levine talks about this, but, like, why did Elon not do this during the Twitter buyout?
Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:07 John Coogan They use email and WhatsApp and Signal and then iMessage and Twitter DMs.
Thursday's Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:32 unnamed speaker Vine is being rebooted under the name Divine with funding from Twitter's former
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:45 unnamed speaker And so, um, for some reason, the folks at Twitter bought review and we're doing email newsletters and then fully pulled back from it because, uh, it was just, it just did not make sense for them to, to get going, but I don't know.
Building a $10B+ DeFi Protocol with Just 11 People | Jeff Yan Joins TBPN
Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
- ▶ 19:03 Bill Peebles With one actor recently who mentioned that, you know, on Twitter, like a year ago, saw like a deep fake of her generated with one of these like open source models, uh, which really had like a lot of nasty content, uh, created.
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 17:39 John Coogan I mean, forking it into X and Twitter and like having it show up on every post seems like a reasonable way.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:26:38 unnamed speaker Yeah, it feels like the end state is like Twitter getting spun out again. 5 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 48:07 John Coogan Before starting Surge, Chen worked as machine learning engineer at Facebook, Dropbox, Google, and Twitter. 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? 2 times in the scene
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 3:46 Ali Partovi First of all, when you mentioned meme, I thought you were talking about, there's, there was a Twitter meme a month or two ago saying these are the institutions that, you know, students would drop out of Harvard and Stanford for, and it,…
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 25:51 unnamed speaker Uh, we were talking with David, too, around, you know, just this era, maybe 1015 years ago, when you had companies buying, you know, a single big tech company, even a Twitter would buy many, many, many companies, and it was, uh, probably…
The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
- ▶ 28:36 Lachy Groom You log on to Twitter, and you'll see all of these crazy robotics demos, most of them tele-operated, or most of them being like robots doing backflips, which is a much easier problem than actually a robot folding laundry, and the thing we…
Why the MARKET Is More FRAGILE Than EVER | Bryce Roberts on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 14:42 Bryce Roberts I think it's, I think it's a huge opportunity that doesn't feel at all like you have the same kind of network effect lock-ins that you had with like Facebook back in the day, or when Twitter turned off your API access.
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 4:37 Aidan McLaughlin Like, Sam tweeted something this morning where it's like, you know, run, redo, like, this time for real. 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 5:19 Delian Asparouhov I admit my tweet was a little more pithy, but it was funny seeing some of the critiques where I'm like, you just didn't watch the clip. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Reed on Sequoia and How to Be a World-Class VC
- ▶ 4:08 Andrew Reed I was, you know, at the top of my class at Goldman and the startups guy was, um, Matt Huang, who now runs Paradigm, um, who had previously started and sold a company to Twitter and did a bunch of angel investing.
- ▶ 6:37 Andrew Reed I think I was the first person at Sequoia to actually tweet, you know, it was like, this is my, and the origins, this is probably 2017. 2 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
- ▶ 2:46 Guillermo Rauch Um, but it kind of became like a Twitter thing, you know, that like, ah, it, it, it, it got big, and then Cloudflare got involved. 2 times in the scene
Kian Sadeghi on 23andMe’s Collapse and the Rise of Nucleus Genomics.
- ▶ 0:15 Kian Sadeghi Listen, let's put this tweet up, John. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17 Kian Sadeghi It's currently riding high on Twitter.
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 27:54 Sam Lessin Um, is like the, the inversion that you could see, like, I'd actually argue Twitter is already doing this. 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian reflects on Reddit, the changing internet, and the future of Digg.
- ▶ 13:47 Alexis Ohanian That'll piss as many people off as possible, which is what Twitter does so well, and I've got, I've got friends who, who I think kind of make a living shitposting, and it's an incredible art form, and I have to commend them on it, but…
"I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
- ▶ 8:19 John Coogan It's the type of, like, business advice that you'd see on, like, a thread on Twitter these days, but it's from, like, the 19 twenties, so all the examples are, like, really antiquated.
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 32:10 John Coogan And so yeah, real narrative violation for everyone that said Elon wasn't gonna be able to keep, uh, X or Twitter like online. 2 times in the scene
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 1:11:26 John Coogan If you were following it, it just transitioned like it's done on Twitter.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 2:27:56 John Coogan Uh, these guys are going to be in so much trouble eventually, but, uh, I love it because these guys are, uh, so Enron is back on, on X and Twitter.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 1:31:51 John Coogan It's interesting because, I mean, there, the, the news cycle has been driven by Twitter for years, um, but it's more, now more than ever. 2 times in the scene
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:10:54 Jordi Hays In the early, early days of Party Round, Josh from Party Round, who would run our Twitter account, we, we did a, a little, like, whatever, five-person retreat in, in our, uh, loft, and, uh, I had, uh, Josh slept in the closet, like,…
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 2:52 John Coogan The Ballad of Rahul Ligma, Rahul Sonwalkar, uh, and how he built his company, and it goes through his prank at X, formerly Twitter, outside with the box, one of the greatest moments in tech history.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 26:23 Jordi Hays And the tie-in to our corner of Twitter is that Ray Pete, almost all his work was focused on metabolism, metabolic health, how to get your metabolism firing, right?
- ▶ 2:04:38 Jordi Hays Historically in the Twitter days, it was really impossible to get any sort of direct response campaigns working on the platform.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 2:35:35 John Coogan And it's actually like, they're going through the whole cycle that Twitter went through again, but which is like a completely new open book for monetization.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 50:19 John Coogan They're like, let's get, let's get like, and they're comping themselves to Facebook and Twitter. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 21:40 John Coogan Yeah, but there was, there was like a, when I did, I didn't really go on Twitter during the conference, but there was a little bit of like, uh, pushback, like Rune tweeted, like when people go from SF to Hereticon Miami, the average IQ of…
- ▶ 49:11 John Coogan Send out, send out the vibe reel that went viral on Twitter.