TBPN is what happens when two tech bros watch ESPN once and decide they are the main character of Silicon Valley.
Three hours a day of live tech talk is ambitious; three hours a day of “group chat with cameras” is a hostage situation. They literally built SportsCenter for term sheets: ranking AI researchers like baseball cards, pretending lab hops are free-agency trades, and hitting a gong every time someone raises a seed round like it’s Game 7 of the Finals. It’s LinkedIn drama with an NFL RedZone overlay.
John Coogan went from “drink your Soylent, productivity is life” to “welcome back to the Technology Business Programming Network,” which sounds like a fake channel you’d see in Idiocracy between ads for crypto mouthwash.
Jordi Hays is there to prove that if you say “vibes” and “founder energy” enough times in a blazer, people will forget your entire format is:
-Read X timeline
-Invite whoever was subtweeted
-Ask, “So, what’s the real story here?”
To be fair, TBPN is the perfect show for 2025: a live stream where billionaires, founders, and guys who say “let me push back on that” into a Shure mic all take turns cosplaying as underdogs, while the hosts act like announcing a Series B is winning the Super Bowl. In summary: it’s addicting, it’s ridiculous, and it’s basically CNBC & ESPN had a baby that was raised by founder memes and engagement farming.