Host @TBPN

Pasadena, CA
Joined April 2009
LinkedIn finds out about tech news a week after we all talk about it on 𝕏. If our plan works, we could shorten that to as little as 5 days.
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Palo Alto Networks CEO @nikesharora says he's more concerned about "trophy hunters" searching for the next security vulnerability than the PHP vulnerability itself. "I'm more concerned about what comes next. This is just one. There's more to come." "The problem is when you start seeing big things like this happen, you start finding people who are trophy hunters." "They're going to say, 'Where can I find the next PHP and prove to the world that I'm as smart as the last guy.'"
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Happy Wednesday. On today's show: - @nikesharora (Palo Alto Networks) - @MaxJunestrand (Legora) - @aidanmantine (Flapping Airplanes) - @AkhilIyer1 (Watchtower Labs) See you on the stream.
The Internet Is Finished, Nobody Expects The Number 4, Early iPhone Duo Reviews, SpaceXSITesla Merger Talks, Nikesh Arora Joins xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1XGygwdQo…
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The Internet Is Finished, Nobody Expects The Number 4, Early iPhone Duo Reviews, SpaceXSITesla Merger Talks, Nikesh Arora Joins xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1XGygwdQo…
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Technology’s Tonight Show. @johncoogan dressed for success as @jayleno joins @tbpn.
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We’re live with @jayleno right now:
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BREAKING: Just 17 months after profiling TBPN, @abebrown716 has been promoted to features editor at The Information
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.@WalterIsaacson says Steve Jobs would be appalled by agentic AI. "[Steve Jobs] says the goal is to connect human creativity to the processing power of our machines." "What we're doing now with agentic AI is where I worry." "When I start using agents that try to do things without me and to be out of my control, Steve Jobs would be appalled by that." "It doesn't connect human creativity to the product. It doesn't have the music that makes our hearts sing, as Steve said, with the iPod." "These people aren't stepping back and saying, 'Why are we making this?' The answer should be to help humanity." "That was Steve's lodestar."
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At the Alexandria, Louisiana airport, they already have the Christmas tree up
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we made another commercial with tony hawk and bam margera. things are escalating team is filming part iv live at the nyse tomorrow
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Jordi predicts the Tesla Roadster launch will be a Nitro Circus-style demo with rocket thrusters, cars launching off ramps, and spinning around:
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Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation. Seven years ago, Karim and I wrote our mission on a Post-it: “Save companies time and money.” Our mission hasn't changed. It’s just gotten bigger.
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Erewhon could have your product on its shelves in two weeks. Kabir Jain, chief growth officer at the Los Angeles luxury grocery chain, explains how they operate faster than traditional supermarkets: “We’re reviewing products every Thursday in the office, and we’re reviewing categories on the go.” He compares their speed with stores like Whole Foods or Sprouts, which typically operate on six-month review cycles. And once Erewhon decides to stock a product, they can handle distribution themselves or use a distributor they already work with. "It allows the brands to get on shelf really quickly."
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There might not be a better person on Earth to explain how AI could change football analytics than @JohnCUrschel, former NFL player and MIT math professor. He explains football currently has player-tracking data, but it's a mess. He believes AI will help make sense of it. "You’ve got 22 guys on a field, and it’s just complete chaos from a data, statistical point of view." “Even a couple years ago, it was not easy to take player-tracking data and actually recognize what play just happened.” “Was the defense in Cover 2? Were they in Cover 3? What run play did the offense do? What was the passing scheme?” “And so I think there’s a huge potential for AI to help.”
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Brutal mention in the WSJ
Final guinness tally: John - 1.2 Mark - 1.4 Alex - 0.8
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"You either die getting to the frontier, or you live long enough to serve inference." Air Street Capital GP @nathanbenaich on the neolab to neocloud pivot: "Companies that have tried to build frontier models and failed have eventually pivoted towards building huge data center businesses to serve Chinese models."
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Check out the Arena Alignment Index: arena.ai/leaderboard/agent/a… Thanks for having me @johncoogan @jordihays
Arena's @ml_angelopoulos says one of the hardest problems in alignment is that users often can't tell when the model is helping them or hurting them. "You really need alignment signals that are independent. We have three at Arena." "The first is that models take unauthorized actions, which means that you permission them in a certain way, but they break those permissions." "It can cause things like the Hugging Face incident. But it can also cause very mundane problems like losing important information within your company or on your own laptop." "The second signal is called deceptive completion." "The model will tell you that it did something, but it didn't actually do it." "Third is false attribution. It'll attribute intent to the user when that intent was not supposed to be there." "If models are able to do this, then certainly they're not perfectly safe for a user and they're not perfectly aligned to user intent. They might actually hurt people down the line."
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Rockefeller Capital Management CEO Greg Fleming is wary of managers who’ve put up great results but only lived through one cycle: “Anybody who got into SpaceX early, that’s kind of the vision they have for every private investment: ‘Am I going to be up 30, 40, 50 times?’” “This is not something that recurs on a regular basis.” “We think these people have done well, but they’ve really only seen one cycle. So we want to be careful there.” “The underlying driver is real. But there will be winners and losers.” “Let’s look for managers that have actually seen something go wrong, because things go right and they go wrong.”
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It’s October 6, which means there are only 79 days until Christmas. So here’s our full interview with Rick Dungey, executive director of the National Christmas Tree Association: 1:50 - How the Christmas tree industry works 3:45 - The economics of growing a crop that takes 6-8 years to yield 7:15 - How a Christmas tree gets selected for the White House 10:25 - When should you actually buy your Christmas tree? 12:20 - How to keep your tree alive 13:45 - The fight against tariffs and imported fake trees from China 15:40 - Trees for Troops
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Why I think it is a GREAT time to be in ecommerce: - new platform shift legacy to agentic anytime there is a platform shift (retail to online, online to amazon) there is the chance for new brands to make it - meta on the offensive when meta ships, we win reels was the biggest boon to my business since stories totally undid all the damage of ios14 now they have another breakout app, but this time it has credit cards and purchase data and it is 100% theirs golden era of digital ads coming - new SEO, but this time, tied to spend LLMs like things that are popular. meta will like people who spend with them established brands are going to have a leg up of they play their cards like a brand with 10 million customers will just be more likely to be suggested, and if meta is taking a cut of sales (directly or indirectly) they will be sending people to the greatest hits --- its a beautiful new day my friends. show up and build something.
Ridge CEO @Seanfrank is bullish on Muse's impact on e-commerce: “I think it’s a great time to be selling everywhere and as big as possible.” “I do think Muse will end up having 200 million downloads or whatever. It’s going to be super used. And I think shopping is gonna be a huge use case.” “What I’ve heard from people at Meta is that they’re not going to monetize it anytime soon. What they want to do is get people to make purchase conversions happen inside that app.” “And all the data they lost over iOS 14, it’s just going to make your ads perform that much better.” He also thinks big Meta advertisers could have a head start in agentic commerce, because their existing ad spend is already feeding Meta data about what converts: “If you’re a big spender, you’ll get that data cycle started sooner.”
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Just hit the first ever MW2/Minecraft trickshot live on TBPN
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