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OpenAI picks up TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
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OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network, making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company.
Key facts
- TBPN, hosted by former tech founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, is a daily live show that airs on YouTube and X for three hours, focusing on tech, business, AI, and defense
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who said in a social media post that TBPN is his favorite tech show, seems to believe the acquisition won’t change TBPN’s commentary and even criticism of the company
- Lehane, who has been described as a master of the “political dark arts,” is also behind the crypto industry super PAC Fairshake, which spent hundreds of millions to kneecap anti-crypto candidates
- OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network — making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company
Summary
TBPN, hosted by former tech founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, is a daily live show that airs on YouTube and X for three hours, focusing on tech, business, AI, and defense. The show has gained a cult following in Silicon Valley, a safe space where industry power players can speak candidly and be questioned by fellow insiders. TBPN will continue to live on as its own brand, which OpenAI will help scale. OpenAI already has its own podcast for long-form conversations with the people building tech at the company.