2026-10-15
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Each weekday morning, Geordie Hayes and John Coogan, two entrepreneurs turned podcasters,
enter a sauna in Los Angeles with copies of the Wall Street Journal.
They come out with jackets, ties, and hot takes on the tech news of the day.
Then they go on air as hosts of the Technology Business Programming Network,
or TBPN, podcast, riffing with guests, banging gongs, and blowing air horns.
The president of TBPN, Dylan Abruscato, calls it a variety show in the vein of a late-night talk show.
Silicon Valley laps it up.
It is not uncommon to see TBPN rather than CNBC streaming on the TV screens in tech firms' offices.
Podcasts are the latest example of a power law in Silicon Valley.
Only a few become big hitters, those that do attract the demigods of tech as guests, making them even more influential.
TBPN has interviewed Sam Altman of OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta.
The All In podcast, hosted by four plutocrats who straddle tech and MAGA politics,
held a summit in Los Angeles in September, attended by Elon Musk.
And Jensen Huang.
When Donald Trump phoned NVIDIA's boss on stage during the summit, Mr. Huang put the president on speakerphone.
Dwarkesh Patel, a bearded 26-year-old who acts and looks like a high priest of AI research,