
John Coogan
@johncoogan
Host of @TBPN | Founder of @lucynicotine | EIR at @foundersfund
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https://tbpn.com/ 12-04-2009 22:25:56
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We interviewed the 2025 Thiel Fellowship cohort. Each fellow received a $200K grant to drop out of college. Here's everyone we talked to from yesterday and what they are working on. Starting with Carlo Kobe, building Fizz, an AI financial advisor for young adults.

Tune in tomorrow at 2pm PT to hear Wander Founder & CEO John Andrew Entwistle discuss our $50M Series B live with Jordi Hays and John Coogan on TBPN.

We asked Brian Armstrong what it's like to incubate Base at Coinbase 🛡️. "The secret to this is to allocate budget to these venture bets, which are small teams within the co, kind of like Y Combinator teams." "75% of these bets won't work out, but once in a while, something

Crypto has never felt more inevitable. Thanks Jordi Hays and John Coogan for a great conversation today, I had fun!



Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - Peter Rahal (David Protein) - Ashlee Vance (Core Memory) - Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe) - John Andrew Entwistle (Wander) - Matan Grinberg (Factory) - jonnydyer (Muon Space) - David Hsu (Retool) - Sushanth Raman (Pallet) - Rob Toews (Radical Ventures)




All the guests are up for our live Odd Lots on June 26th. Click the link in the next post come see me, Tracy Alloway, James Chanos, Bob Brackett, Charlie McElligot, Josh Younger EMILY SUNDBERG, Ira Jersey, US Fixed Income, Nellie Liang and possibly one more surprise name.


🎁 Weekend Special We picked some of the best moments on TBPN this week, put it in a single recap ep to catch you up to speed. (00:00) Elon leaving DC (09:05) Balaji, Network School (35:04) Chris Dixon, a16z crypto (01:05:27) Brian Armstrong, Coinbase (01:36:09) Dan Romero, Farcaster

After it took days to book an HVAC appointment in the sweltering heat, I built Netic: the AI revenue engine for businesses that keep America running. Silicon Valley ignored essential services for too long, so we raised $20m from Founders Fund, @greylock, Mike Volpi to fix it.


Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - Soren Monroe-Anderson (Neros) - Connor Love (Lightspeed) - Melisa Tokmak (Netic) - Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) - Maxwell Meyer (Arena Magazine) See you all on the stream.

BREAKING: Netic closes $20M in funding We hit the Size Gong for CEO Melisa Tokmak 💥 Netic brings frontier AI to the industries that keep America running. "We are coming out of stealth, with $20M raised from Founders Fund, Greylock, among other amazing investors and

“let’s hear it for private equity, finally getting some recognition” 😂😂😂 John Coogan


