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Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:32 Jordi Hays Um, Ben Thompson was raving about the fact that it gives you a pretty powerful VM, eight gigs of memory and eight gigs of storage that is yours sequestered, and they're also implementing a lot of the security features that they have done… 2 times in the scene
More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:44 Jordi Hays They spoke on the phone, but mostly messaged back and forth on WhatsApp.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:02 unnamed speaker Attract less talent, ultimately been disrupted, and would they have had the capital and the guts to go and buy WhatsApp and then also buy Instagram, um, you know, to actually maintain the, the dominant position in social networking?
Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:24 John Coogan And it's the typical, uh, me, the, the interesting thing is that I do think, uh, Meta Ray bands, like it was always like, okay, you have a deep integration with WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:57 unnamed speaker They said that there were internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp restrictions in Russia, and so this was not representative of a real change in internet user behavior, and I think we all, uh, recognize that that is 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 54:55 Thomas Laffont WhatsApp, and your messages, and your emails, and all of your calls, and they're going to be able to just say, hey, by the way, just
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:19 unnamed speaker So just WhatsApp, you can just be a DAU of Instagram and you count in that. 2 times in the scene
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:04 unnamed speaker Yeah, and Meta's done a ton of these types of acquisitions, um, where, like, like, smaller products, tuck-ins, not everything has been WhatsApp, 16,000,000,008 billion, I forget, it was a lot of billions.
- ▶ 23:13 unnamed speaker And threads and WhatsApp and whatnot, but were they, were they actually driving attention?
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:28 Jordi Hays Across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
AI Isn’t Covid, FBI probes Tai Lopez, Mistral’s $2B Sweden bet | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:56 unnamed speaker Yeah, I, I think, um, I, I do wonder if there's, like, an interesting comparison to the, the kind of CloudBot stuff, where, like, I think one of my main takeaways from the CloudBot thing was that it's gonna be hard for, for big labs to…
Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com
- ▶ 10:33 unnamed speaker Part of this latest, ah, open claw, clawed bot, you know, hype cycle is driven by the fact that you, like, you get a Mac mini, it can talk to iMessage, it can talk to WhatsApp, it can talk to Telegram, it can go sort of wherever you go as… 3 times in the scene
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:10 Peter Steinberger And then it was like, okay, I, I want to chat with my computer on WhatsApp because, because if my agents are not running, if they're running and then I go to the kitchen, I want to check up on them. 3 times in the scene
Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 7:44 Peter Steinberger And then there was like, okay, I, I want to chat with my computer on WhatsApp because, because if my agents are not running, if they're running and then I go to the kitchen, I want to check up on them or like, I want to like do little… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Peter Steinberger Um, and I already had a lot of that working when I, when I, I built the, the WhatsApp thing.
- ▶ 25:36 Peter Steinberger I mean, even, even the WhatsApp integration is a hack, you know, this is like, it, it, it fakes the, the protocol that the desktop abuses.
- ▶ 29:25 Peter Steinberger I built this for fun for me to use one-on-one on WhatsApp or Telegram.
Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:28 unnamed speaker But if you take the Manus team and you say, okay, go build something that you can interact with over WhatsApp, Instagram, DMs, Facebook, that can go and execute things across all of the different platforms and everything else.
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker Meta to test premium subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:28 unnamed speaker You're allowing, uh, you know, interactions with your, uh, computer, anything on your computer over messages, iMessage, telegram, signal, WhatsApp, they all integrate.
- ▶ 15:30 unnamed speaker So your AI, like you can send it a WhatsApp message and that's like a Claude code prompt.
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:18 unnamed speaker LinkedIn AI just ruined WhatsApp AI.
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:29 John Coogan If Meta owns WhatsApp and includes that in the family of apps and messaging is obviously a huge driver of social networking activity these days.
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 16:39 Jordi Hays If we build a great model, we can start distributing it through WhatsApp, through Instagram, through Facebook, through the Meta AI app. 2 times in the scene
Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:57 Jordi Hays Zuckerberg wanted to separate the new AI group from the bureaucracy of the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
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.
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 29:32 unnamed speaker Do you, do you, so I was with the, with the Ray-Ban displays, I could imagine that being having like pretty real product market fit for people in the world that are dependent on WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 2:35 Brian Chesky Stay in touch with people after you can message them because a lot of people were like staying in touch, but they would have to exchange WhatsApp numbers.
Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
- ▶ 6:57 Andrew Bosworth (Boz) So he has been, he runs this company on WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 John Coogan Tons of crazy stuff just through the WhatsApp API. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 36:57 John Coogan Um, I'm interested in, and we've been debating this in the context of meta super intelligence, is artificial intelligence an app like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or is it like their finance team, like their infrastructure team, like…
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 33:15 John Coogan Instead, AI will improve everything Meta does across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Quest, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 6:39 unnamed speaker Instead, AI will improve everything Meta does across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Quest, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 19:35 John Coogan They have three of them really, uh, uh, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 8:23 unnamed speaker They have three of them really, uh, uh, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 2:48:46 Will Depue Like WhatsApp was twenty billion or something like that.
- ▶ 2:55:31 John Coogan And he came back from that, went native and super dominant and bought Instagram, WhatsApp, super dominant and mobile.
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 4:45 John Coogan Uh, other news meta finally put ads into WhatsApp, uh, in January, 20 12. 5 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 13:00 Connor Lovett But a lot of coordination is happening through WhatsApp, a lot of coordination on, and so all of a sudden you turn off the cell networks, you're actually inhibiting your own defense, your own response, the first responder, you know, the,…
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 2:33 Chris Dixon You would send a text message, you would say you don't have a plan to send to Canada, you got to sign up, and it was all these different systems, and then WhatsApp and FaceTime came along, and they built this sort of, what they call,…
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 38:48 Chris Dixon And then WhatsApp and FaceTime came along and they built this sort of what they call over the top global network, right?
Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
- ▶ 16:53 Adam Kovacevich Like, look, he, like if the worst case they lose the case, they're forced to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 27:08 Mike Vernal , there was Snapchat, there was WhatsApp, there was Uber, there was Lyft, there was DoorDash, there was Instacart.
Is Venture Capital Broken? | Sam Lessin on TBPN
- ▶ 4:54 Jordi Hays Uh, but then now it's like, okay, you have XDMs, uh, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal.
The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- ▶ 19:37 Jordi Hays And I'm sure you've like hit the limits on Slack, hit the limits on, you know, run into issues on Discord, you know, uh, Signal has its limitations, WhatsApp, like, how do, how do you think about, um, 4 times in the scene
Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- ▶ 24:58 Aravind Srinivas It's mostly Instagram or WhatsApp.
Andrew Reed on Sequoia and How to Be a World-Class VC
- ▶ 17:02 John Coogan There's the WhatsApp example, which is like really famous, but I'm sure there's a million others, right?
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 10:30 Sean Frank And WhatsApp in general. 2 times in the scene
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 18:42 unnamed speaker Betting on mobile companies if they got into WhatsApp? 2 times in the scene
Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
- ▶ 25:31 Logan Bartlett And I draw it akin to the Ubers or the WhatsApps or whatever it is, where these businesses that couldn't have been possible without AI are going to form a lot of independent equity value. 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 58:40 John Coogan They're like, yeah, I love, I love meta AI using it through WhatsApp.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 14:34 John Coogan Most future consumer LLM usage will go through existing platforms, Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, iPhone, Android. 2 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 1:26:09 Jordi Hays Because right now, like when the disaster broke out, everybody's on WhatsApp, iMessage,
- ▶ 2:32:06 Jordi Hays A smartwatch, at least for the international market that runs on WhatsApp, right? 2 times in the scene
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 56:02 John Coogan DD says, just learned that WhatsApp has not 10, not 20, but a 150 designers all working tirelessly to make sure the app looks exactly the same as it did in 20, 14, 92 K likes. 3 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 23:25 John Coogan These newcomers are closer to the young entrepreneurs and age and have at the same WhatsApp groups and offer counsel on negotiating with the Sequoias having been through it themselves.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:12:16 unnamed speaker It's tucked into WhatsApp and, and Zuck has just stuffed that thing everywhere.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:21:41 John Coogan Tariq Mansour, uh, who says, he posts a screenshot from what looks like WhatsApp.