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TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 17:36 John Coogan Instagram, YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Gemini, and so Ben's point was, if you, like, ChatGPT, yes, they are the number one app, but they should be scared because Google has one, two, three, four, five in the top 11, or something…
Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction
- ▶ 28:39 unnamed speaker The Oscars are moving to YouTube, which is a bomb. 3 times in the scene
Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment
- ▶ 17:43 John Coogan I mean, I would, I would, uh, I would use the story circle when I would write YouTube videos.
Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:21 unnamed speaker So we're still behind YouTube at 13%. 2 times in the scene
Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:30 unnamed speaker Warner Brothers and Disney being more monopolistic, or Warner Brothers going to Google and YouTube, and being like free on YouTube, being like way more anti-competitive.
Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:42 unnamed speaker I've wanted more of, like, the tech leaders to go on Rogan and kind of just, like, cross-pollinate the two communities, and, um, as I read the comments on the YouTube video, there were a lot of fans of Rogan who really were, like, thanking…
Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:02 unnamed speaker And share it to X, and Instagram, and YouTube, and other platforms.
Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN
- ▶ 14:44 Doug DeMuro And I think that's one of the secrets of YouTube.
Ex Mr. Beast Manager Explains The Creator Economy
- ▶ 0:02 unnamed speaker It's impossible to shitpost on YouTube. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14 unnamed speaker You and I have known each other now going on probably like three years, but we represent the biggest creators on Twitch, YouTube.
- ▶ 1:53 unnamed speaker Where opportunities are for creators, uh, it felt like TikTok was the hottest place to, to, if you were going to be a creator, uh, TikTok was the place you could go break through, then Mark Zuckerberg copied it with reels, and, and YouTube… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53 unnamed speaker Where opportunities are for creators, uh, it felt like TikTok was the hottest place to, to, if you were going to be a creator, uh, TikTok was the place you could go break through, then Mark Zuckerberg copied it with reels, and, and YouTube…
- ▶ 3:53 unnamed speaker Beast's leverage over YouTube? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 unnamed speaker Twitch is interesting, uh, because when I see what Google is doing, um, YouTube is like front and center in so much of what, uh, YouTube does, and yet I feel like with Twitch, it's not really the front and center 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:58 unnamed speaker It also has this weird dynamic where, uh, and correct me if I'm wrong, but there might be a lot of money being made on Twitch, but a lot of it is driven by the Twitch Prime program, which is not actually new dollars for Amazon, whereas,…
- ▶ 9:30 unnamed speaker Of course Google's gonna do IO on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker Uh, Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 unnamed speaker Yeah, but you, you can parlay it now on YouTube, which is why I said YouTube, because you can use YouTube Shorts as the discoverability mechanism, which is a lot easier to get someone in the door, to then figure out what your content is,…
- ▶ 11:57 unnamed speaker What do you think about this, uh, this idea that, like, YouTube just seems to be coalescing around the old TV formats? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 unnamed speaker It always kind of feels like someone has to continue to try to spend a hundred million dollars to create a competitor to Twitch or YouTube or TikTok.
- ▶ 16:05 unnamed speaker We ultimately got to a place where we think, like, creator payouts on X make the platform worse, because the content is relatively easy to make, and if you just create this sort of, like, profit motive on the platform, it just floods the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:36 unnamed speaker The nature of some of these live live streamers is actually forcing them to create products and startups or like businesses earlier than maybe on YouTube, because I feel like a lot of the, the Twitch streamers, like there's so much… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:05 unnamed speaker I think we're pretty far away from this point from a just model progress standpoint, but right now YouTube doesn't make any videos themselves. 10 times in the scene
How AI Will Change Gaming Forever | Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki Live on TBPN
- ▶ 7:20 Dave Baszucki And in the video market, whether it's short, um, UGC, you know, TikTok, YouTube, Netflix, you name it, that's relatively mature technology.
How to Build an $11B Empire Selling Funko Pops | Whatnot CEO Grant Lafontaine Joins TBPN
- ▶ 4:02 unnamed speaker So, so I feel like a lot of the, a lot of the media platforms, uh, they'll start with just like the idea of like, I want to share photos online, Instagram, or I want to have a place to host video online, YouTube.
- ▶ 18:39 Grant LaFontaine So I spent like six years at YouTube, you know, it is power law oriented.
Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:45 unnamed speaker I love how YouTube is, doesn't even, isn't even deserving of its own Ninja Turtle. 4 times in the scene
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 11:09 Shaun Maguire I mean, my partner Jim gets incubated Palo Alto networks, you know, Rudolph both, uh, invested in YouTube with three people and they worked in the Sequoia office in the beginning.
OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:00 Jordi Hays If it's free to generate content, there will be more content on the platform, just like the Sony camera, you know, commoditized the video production, made more content for YouTube.
Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN
- ▶ 4:09 Palmer Luckey It was doing, like, 400 miles per hour in the trap, and its final run, there's a video on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem
- ▶ 4:50 Marc Benioff I just did an interview, uh, with Sundar, you know, you can see it on YouTube.
Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:52 unnamed speaker YouTube does a much better job. 4 times in the scene
George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions
- ▶ 2:32 unnamed speaker Like YouTube certainly has. 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 2:18 Alexis Ohanian YouTube, X, ESPN, DAZN, didn't matter.
Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
- ▶ 29:22 Jordi Hays I, I had a question when you guys released the, uh, Sora to via API, which was that if Sora has the potential to be a Instagram or, or YouTube scale business, why release part of your edge for the entire world that they can integrate into…
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 15:25 Jordi Hays Pat McAfee back in the day, because I used to help a bunch of companies with, ah, like, podcast advertising, and then ended up focusing more on YouTube, ah, and at the time I was thinking about, like, wow, he had this sort of, like, short…
- ▶ 36:33 John Coogan So I want to see Eric Schmidt buy programmatic ads on YouTube against an, and in, and in the Spotify feed,
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 9:34 John Coogan Do you know the original Sequoia YouTube memo?
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 34:00 unnamed speaker You're getting that YouTube, you're getting that YouTube AdSense.
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 54:13 unnamed speaker This is like YouTube.
- ▶ 1:14:09 Jordi Hays I'm also curious about YouTube as well. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 33:10 John Coogan yeah, yeah, a media company that should focus on, like, the media piece, and then, and then, like, the YouTube should just be, like, a platform.
- ▶ 1:05:21 Dr. Drew Pinsky We just, we, we could have been, who knows what, we could have been, God knows we could have been YouTube or something if we had sort of been the first to really advocate for this kind of platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:14 John Coogan When I think of the far big mega side of the barbell, I think of the platforms, Spotify, Facebook, Meta, YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, the networks, and they actually accrue a ton of the value and, and it, and it is extremely hard to start…
- ▶ 1:41:08 John Coogan The answer was, uh, YouTube will compete in shorts and, uh, Instagram will compete in reels and, you know, TikTok will be out there and, you know, buyer beware. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:08 John Coogan The answer was, uh, YouTube will compete in shorts and, uh, Instagram will compete in reels and, you know, TikTok will be out there and, you know, buyer beware.
- ▶ 1:49:59 unnamed speaker It was just like for YouTube that they would make the videos like,
How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- ▶ 7:13 John Coogan The answer was, uh, YouTube will compete in shorts and, uh, Instagram will compete in reels. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:13 John Coogan The answer was, uh, YouTube will compete in shorts and, uh, Instagram will compete in reels.
- ▶ 16:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, you, you don't really know how many people were actually buying it, or if it was just like for YouTube that they would make the videos like,
Dr. Drew on Tech, COVID, and Living a Happy Life
- ▶ 10:48 Dr. Drew Pinsky We just, we, we could have been, who knows what, we could have been, God knows we could have been YouTube or something if we had sort of been the first to really advocate for this kind of platform.
- ▶ 12:47 unnamed speaker Either accrues to the platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, or the individuals, the Joe Rogan, the Andrew Huberman that pursues and that it's very hard to actually build anything in the middle. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 5:41 John Coogan So I wouldn't be saying YouTube doesn't know they Spotify does it automatically. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 John Coogan If you look at the number of minutes that are being uploaded to YouTube every day, like that number has probably been increasing
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 8:46 John Coogan We actually can see the chat wherever it's happening, whether it's on X or on YouTube, because of Restream.
- ▶ 57:02 John Coogan How yappy and how popular the fighters are, or is there something else going on at like a technological level where, like, I don't have to click any buttons to open Instagram reels or TikTok or YouTube, and with pay-per-view, it's like…
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 8:45 John Coogan We actually can see the chat wherever it's happening, whether it's on X or on YouTube because of restream.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 1:58:41 John Coogan Like if I, if I want to, um, you know, crunch our analytics across, you know, look at the trends on our views on X, YouTube, uh, Instagram, we have a bunch of data sources.
- ▶ 2:03:36 John Coogan Like back in the day, like the default YouTube view used to just be your subscriptions. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:16:51 John Coogan And so YouTube. 3 times in the scene
Google’s Genie 3 Builds Game Maps From a Single Prompt
- ▶ 4:39 unnamed speaker It's all about just writing, getting the facts together, assembling them into a script that makes sense on YouTube. 3 times in the scene
SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
- ▶ 1:47 unnamed speaker I remember running into you at, uh, one of those YouTube vid cons or something, and you were getting swarmed.
- ▶ 13:23 Samir Chaudry Now, look, that happens on YouTube all the time, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 unnamed speaker Finding a short YouTube video on it was super effective because you're like, I don't have to Google and I don't have to find this summary and I don't have to piece together this Reddit thread and that blog post and this news article.
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 1:07:02 Jordi Hays I watch F-One on YouTube TV, which I guess is through ESPN.
- ▶ 2:14:35 Casey Neistat He's brilliant with his own YouTube channel.
CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
- ▶ 26:29 Casey Neistat He's brilliant with his own YouTube channel.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 22:16 John Coogan Last of the labs, Google, they're building on top of the biggest search engine, and they also have YouTube, and Google, you also know, is not going to go into, uh, romantic companions.
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 11:05 unnamed speaker Last of the labs, Google, they're building on top of the biggest search engine, and they also have YouTube, and Google, you also know, is not going to go into, uh, romantic companions.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 1:35:26 John Coogan YouTube or like Spotify where there is a pool of dollars that are going into ChatGPT subscriptions. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 28:08 Yacine Mtibaa I think the real problem with like AI and stuff is like YouTube shorts. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:39 Yacine Mtibaa Watch some YouTube videos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:41 Yacine Mtibaa I would love it if they stopped putting shorts because there's so many great videos we can learn. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11:20 Jordi Hays But the obvious reason that he should have kept the AI thumbnail tool is you're by, if you can roll out AI in this way, you can save millions of creators that create YouTube videos a lot of money because many of them are not going to be… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15:04 Jordi Hays Meanwhile, there are over two million YouTube creators that are in the YouTube partner program, meaning they're making ad revenue.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 54:40 unnamed speaker It's kind of like when the YouTube founders put out YouTube, I'm sure they weren't imagining vlogging. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 28:26 Jordi Hays but I imagine you're gonna have more, you know, budget than ever, and, and, you know, it, it's easy now to get a million views on X, on a video, uh, is, is a hundred million views on YouTube the next, you know, uh, challenge. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:03 Jordi Hays Anish was posting about, uh, Google's edge, uh, or YouTube's edge around IP with VO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:04 John Coogan You can't do that with YouTube. 5 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:43:13 unnamed speaker It's kind of like when the YouTube founders put out YouTube, I'm sure they weren't imagining vlogging. 2 times in the scene
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
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 11:09 Chris Dixon I actually have, if for those interested, I wrote a book, read, write, own, and I have a chapter on take rates where I go through this in detail, but it's essentially you're going from like 30% in the app store, you know, a hundred percent…
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 49:26 Chris Dixon I wrote a book read right on, and I have a chapter on take rates where I go through this in detail, but it's essentially you're going from like 30% in the app store, you know, a hundred percent in Facebook and 50% on YouTube to like five…
- ▶ 1:47:55 Dan Romero Yeah, although I, to, to Substack's credit, I think they're doing better than the vast majority of Web two in the sense that I think what they take 10%, and you know, like YouTube, I think what is the seven 30, 70 30 cut in terms of I…
- ▶ 2:26:20 Sigil Wen And, uh, I made a YouTube video, uh, about the, uh, about the process that has since been seen by hundreds of thousands of people. 2 times in the scene
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 1:36:03 unnamed speaker And, uh, I made a YouTube video, uh, about the, uh, about the process that has since I've been seen by hundreds of thousands of people. 2 times in the scene
Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
- ▶ 5:34 unnamed speaker It's like, I don't need to go on YouTube and social networks.
This Company Is Making Video Creation 100x Easier | Gaurav Misra on TBPN
- ▶ 3:20 unnamed speaker An app where I'm getting like a notebook LM style, like YouTube videos. 3 times in the scene
What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- ▶ 5:04 David Senra But Moritz tells a story, I think at Stanford, uh, you can see this on YouTube, where he's like,
How Robots Are Quietly Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing | Saman Farid on TBPN
- ▶ 3:50 Saman Farid Um, and I think that's the part that's generally underappreciated, which is like, we'll see a robot doing a backflip in a cool YouTube video.
The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- ▶ 6:16 John Coogan People don't really think about them as media, but if you were in YouTube early, you, you did very well, uh, very hard to invest in, in companies that are more in the middle.
- ▶ 18:23 Erik Torenberg Maybe you can work with YouTube creators more broadly.
Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- ▶ 4:58 Aravind Srinivas Um, and, and if it's not, um, you're not allowed to put Maps, YouTube, Play Store.
- ▶ 17:21 Aravind Srinivas Like we're going to let some of the users pub try to like publish it to discover on their own, just like a creator on YouTube does it.
- ▶ 33:53 Aravind Srinivas Like the YouTube team is so different from the Gmail team, sort of from the Chrome team, and that's why it takes so much time to collaborate.
HONEY Founder Responds to MegaLag -- Ryan Hudson on TBPN
- ▶ 1:48 Ryan Hudson Uh, a few days before Christmas this year, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there was a YouTube video accusing my former company of being a scam.
- ▶ 18:05 Ryan Hudson Um, a big company like PayPal is unlikely to have all of their resources aligned to respond to that at the same speed of a YouTube viral video going, going viral through a holiday season where the initial video got seventeen million plus…
- ▶ 26:20 Jordi Hays Because when I think of, uh, sort of like shady, you know, when I think of like shady companies that do heavy YouTube influencer marketing, I think of VPNs, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:48 Ryan Hudson Uh, most of our acquisition has been through regular YouTube ads of all places.
Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 14:11 Shawn 'swyx' Wang I would say that if there were any challenger to MCP, it will come from Google because Google has native integrations to Gmail, calendar, YouTube, what have you, they already launched it and it's already first party in there.
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