Open AI has just acquired the popular tech show, TBN, the technology business programming network.

This is OpenAI's first big move into owning a media company, but this isn't a classic media

company, right? They're not buying the New York Times or I had the, you know, the Wall Street

Journal or something. They're buying kind of one of these up-and-coming tech shows that for, you know,

full disclosure, this thing started in 2025. So this has not been around. It's only been around for 18 months, and they have now been acquired. Today on the podcast, I want to break down how much we are speculating. They've been acquired for what people have been saying about it over on X, and all of the juicy details, basically, in an acquisition of a kind of first media company

acquisition by Open AI, why they might be doing this pre-IPO and where we see this going

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So what's interesting here is OpenAI has just

acquired TBPN. And the, basically when they bought this, a lot of people were worried, they're like,

oh no, like opening eyes just buying this media company. They're going to tell them what to do.

It's going to change the direction. Apparently, the show is going to report directly to

Open AI's chief political operator, which is Chris Leggin.

And I think this is not really a content play.

It's kind of a communications expansion.

The hosts, which were some former tech founders, John Coogan and Jordy Hayes, it basically built its reputation on.

They would do these daily three-hour, they would do.

They still do these daily three-hour live format kind streams they stream on x and youtube and they basically do deep dives

into tech business ai and they also do defense and oftentimes they're kind of reacting in real time

to things that are happening so right they're doing the live stream something happens on x and they're

kind of talking about it they also layer some of their insider perspectives that I think you don't typically get from a lot of traditional media because they were founders and they've actually been working in this space. And over the past year, they basically evolved into, there's just kind of this cult following in Silicon Valley. It's a lot of different founders and operators and executives. they will come there and they'll basically like, I don't know, they speak pretty candidly. They challenge each other. And sometimes they're, you know, they're saying like the quiet part out loud basically on the show. I think that's what a lot of people like about it. Now, I think it has earned comparisons to kind of like sports center, but it's for tech. and you see people like Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Mark Benioff, Sam Altman, all of them have come on the show before. And they're kind of breaking down some of the headlines, right? Some of the, you know, some crazy thing happens with opening eye. You have Sam Altman on there. And I think it's interesting because you get their perspective as their tech founders, grilling, not really grilling, right? It's not really very combative, I think, which is another thing that people actually like about it, but they're asking them about what's going on. Despite the acquisition, though, because some people are like, oh, no, opening eyes, buying them. They're going to tell them what to say. Apparently, TBPN is going to continue to operate under its own brand, so at least publicly, and then it's going to have Open AI stepping in to help them scale the distribution. So it's, you know, it's still its own company, but Open AI probably is going to throw ads at it to help it grow and do a bunch of other things for kind of its reach and production. And I mean, not that it, you know, some people are like, well, it doesn't really need it. It's kind of organically growing. And yes, but like, for example, if you go search for the AI chat podcast, my podcast on Google, right above it, you're going to see an ad for invidia's like AI podcast. So you can, there's a lot you can do to grow. uhVidia obviously is growing their podcast by putting ads on top of my show. And I mean, we all, you know, I'm sure that I get, I get listens from people looking for their AI show, finding my show. So, you know, it's, it's all an ecosystem for sure. But there's a lot of ways you can grow. And I can only imagine with Open AIs funding, how fast and

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