Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Travis Kalanick’s Podcast Comeback Is Selling Atoms—and Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick’s podcast surge is a masterclass in founder reintroduction. Here is what Atoms does—and why his reputation is now infrastructure.
Satire
TBPN Is on Vacation. Please Launch 10,000 Worse TBPNs Immediately.
TBPN is on vacation until August 31. SiliconSnark proposes two weeks of daily three-hour imitation shows to keep tech properly over-broadcast.
OpenAI
Sam Altman Has Started Posting Like He Bought a Tech Talk Show Because He Did
OpenAI bought TBPN on April 2, and by the April 23 GPT-5.5 rollout, Sam Altman's launch posts suddenly sounded less like lab comms and more like a founder-host who knows how the feed works.