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Kp retweeted
openai just mass-bought distribution
they acquired TBPN for over $100M
a show that didn't exist 18 months ago. 11 people. 58,000 youtube subscribers.
let me explain why this matters more than people think
TBPN made $5M last year. they're on track for $30M this year. 6x jump. from a show smaller than most gaming streamers.
so why did the most valuable private company in the world pay nine figures for this?
it wasn't the revenue. it wasn't the tech. they don't even have tech.
it was the room.
every major founder, VC, and tech CEO watches this show. zuckerberg went on. nadella went on. altman went on.
TBPN had daily access to the 50,000 people who decide where money moves in silicon valley.
you can't build that. you can only buy it.
now look at the timing:
→ NYT is suing openai
→ pentagon deal just blew up their public image
→ they're about to IPO
traditional media hates them. so they bought their own media.
the hosts now report to openai's chief global affairs officer. not product. not engineering. comms.
they're shutting down TBPN's ad business too. openai doesn't need the $30M. they need the microphone.
here's what founders should take away from this:
1. two guys with a camera built something a $380B company couldn't replicate. distribution > code. always.
2. 58K subscribers beat 5M random followers when every subscriber is a decision maker. go narrow.
3. 18 months of daily shows. same time. every weekday. that's the moat. consistency compounds.
4. they built the audience first. the "product" was a conversation. no code. no funding. just showing up.
openai has the best AI models on earth. billions in funding. thousands of engineers.
and they still had to buy a talk show to solve their marketing problem.
if that doesn't convince you that distribution is the game, nothing will.
TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI!
The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday.
This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show.
Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.
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Kp retweeted
Building something new.
Marka
Still exploring logo ideas, but here’s an early concept.
Does this feel memorable to you?
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Kp retweeted
If you’re experimenting with Google ADK agents, I wrote a quick guide on adding persistent memory with @mem0ai .
mem0.ai/blog/persistent-memo…
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Kp retweeted
I’ve been completely quiet on Twitter for the last 10 days.
I spent the last week and a half building Mail-man,an AI email client I coded from scratch Built with next js.
Here’s a quick demo of how it looks
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Kp retweeted
World's first AI that asks before it designs.
Muse: refuses to generate slides until it understands your story. No slop. Just stunning presentations that actually sound like you.
Repost + comment "MUSE" to get early access in the next 24 hours.
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Kp retweeted
I hired an ex McKinsey consultant to compile all my sales materials to document how GrowthAssistant company reached $22M in ARR.
He collected:
- Recordings of sales calls
- Sales scripts
- SOPs
- Lead gen systems
- etc
100s of top companies paid me for access to it.
Today I'll give it away for free.
RT + reply "GA" to get a copy in DMs.
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Kp retweeted
I asked : You can give a first-time founder just one piece of advice. What is it?
got 500 + replies, Here are the top tips👇
Bookmark this.
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1. 4 gm Creatine
2. Protein
3. Drinking lots of water ( 1 helps with this )
4. Hitting gym 4-5 days a week
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The most productive people I know never read productivity advice.
They just work on things they care about.
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so what exactly Google is paying $2.4B for ?
Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf.
The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team.
We are also honoring their talent and hard work in building Windsurf into the great business it is today. This transaction is structured so that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially. They will also have all vesting cliffs waived and will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date.
At Cognition we have focused on developing robust and secure autonomous agents, while Windsurf has pioneered the agentic IDE. Devin + Windsurf are a powerful combination for the developers we serve. Working side by side, we’ll soon enable you to plan tasks in an IDE powered by Devin’s codebase understanding, delegate chunks of work to multiple Devins in parallel, complete the highest-leverage parts yourself with the help of autocomplete, and stitch it all back together in the same IDE.
Cognition and Windsurf are united behind a shared vision for the future of software engineering, and there’s never been a better time to build. Welcome to our new colleagues from Windsurf!
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