OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business.
The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a “low hundreds of millions of dollars” deal, according to a person with knowledge of the terms.
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Open AI’s core business is lying to inflate their stock price. This tracks.
Super. Media is always better when big corporations control the content.
11 person company with 65,000 subscribers to their channel. Dude pays like $3000 per subscriber. Be cheaper just to pay people to listen to him.
I bet the owners couldn’t believe their luck lmao
I doubt luck had much to do with it! This just seems like a convenient way to embezzle a few hundred million of investor money as a favour to a friend.
Not sure how buying a podcast is going to help pay the bills, Altman.
Bills? This is about controlling the narrative. Billionaires don’t think in terms of money, but in terms of optics. Keep the proper image up, and the money will come in on its own.
It’s to convince others to pay Altman’s bills.
Controlling the narrative, delay the explosion of the AI bubble.
65k YouTube subs and they paid hundreds of millions?!?
They may be the only company in this space as unfocused as xAI. They basically bought a podcast to use as a mouthpiece. It’s just dumb and anyone who would consider investing in this company as to doubt their leadership and decision making. What a waste of their money.
It worked with Bro Joegan
Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it’s fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn’t a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid
“Hey everyone, we sold our channel for several million! Anyway, follow us on our new channel here”.
OpenAIs stupid lol
I have never heard of this show
Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it’s so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers
TPBN YouTube channel (their primary outlet) has 64k subscribers, averages 5k views per podcast episode. Except for the OpenAI announcement that has 13k, and all the comments are negative.
For “low” hundreds of millions of dollars. Wtf.
One of the founders is the guy who invented Soylent, and now shills nicotine pouches.
A lot more on X (320k followers and 110k views on the latest episode). And those are the livestream platforms, I’d imagine a lot of people use something like Apple Podcasts or Spotify to listen to them afterwards.
X views are really questionable though. You scroll across this in a feed, it counts as a view. (This is great for juicing your numbers if people are only familiar with other platforms’ numbers.
Where can I sell my 43 subscriber YTP channel to him?
With those number best he can probably offer is $150k
Sold.
