TBPN Live - Snap Launches SPECS, Paramount Eyes Nashville Offices, OpenAI Explores $1.2T Valuation | Diet TBPN

Episode Date: September 17, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Snap officially launched Spex yesterday. Some of the team members here got to go check it out in person. I get there. I'm like, this is perfect. It's 3 p.m. Atlas Creatine Cycles in town. I want to meet up with him. I'm like, great, you're going to this thing.
Starting point is 00:00:18 I have an invite to this thing. I'll see you there. We'll catch up there. Super convenient for both of us. I got a 30-minute call beforehand. It ends right before the thing starts. That runs to 50 minutes. So I'm 20 minutes late.
Starting point is 00:00:28 Get my badge. Walk in immediately. Lee, get a phone call. Hey, the call they're about to be. I had another call. You got to hop on early. And then I have another 90-minute call. So I truly miss the entire thing. But I did get to go inside, have one glass of water, talk to one person, Harper Carroll, former guest of the show, now out in Austin, reporting on AI. And that was electric. But then I didn't actually get to see the presentation or do the demos. So it was basically a quick turnaround for me. And I was like, why did I think I could pull this off? I failed. But
Starting point is 00:01:00 Did the launch fail? We'll see. We'll talk to the folks who actually went. Tyler, Nick, we're not asking for a full review. I just want take us through the day. I saw you guys pull up and you guys didn't see me. I was on the street on the call. You guys get waved around.
Starting point is 00:01:15 You valet. Walk me through your journey into the launch. Like you go in, you have cocktails. What happened? Yeah, have a drink. Go in. What are they serving? Screaming Eagle?
Starting point is 00:01:28 Or, you know, seltzer water. Some kind of cocktail. Did they have the original four loco? Were they serving the original four loco? I wish, yeah. Multiple pints of Guinness. Did they have natural light available? You could totally see Evan cracking out the, cracking open the secret supply of original four locoes.
Starting point is 00:01:45 You know that guy has a bunkey with the original four locoes. Yeah. So everyone's having some drinks. Then you sit down. Chopin it up. Then you go into the amphitheater. And it's sort of like Steve Jobs' iPhone launch vibes, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:58 You know, he's standing in front of this big screen. There's like beautiful images behind him, walks out, black shirt, jeans. Okay. Yeah, then he starts doing live demos. He did lean into the memes, right? I saw on screen a picture that had clearly been Photoshopped or AI to make the specs look even bigger. So he was aware that people thought they were chunky, that they were large. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:17 So he gives his demo. What's his pitch? Yeah, so there's like a number of ways to, he kind of talked about it. One is like positioned against like being on your phone a lot. You want to stay very present, right? You don't be looking down at the screens all the time. You want to be looking up the screen. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Right? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Close for your face. Yeah. And I've heard that pitched a few times. Do you believe that?
Starting point is 00:02:38 Do you think that if you go no phone but constant visual overlay in your visual field, you will actually be like, yeah, I'm more in touch with the reality. It worked. Yeah. I've never understood that part of the pitch. I've actually been. We know you're addicted to your phone. So here's another product that will actually always be attached to your face.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Yeah. They were going to spin as helping you kind of, yeah, reconnect with reality. It's an odd pitch. It really doesn't work on me because I like the barbell strategy of like brain rot and stimulation where I am actually fine to be like, give me the fully virtual world. I want to be locked in. I want the screen as big as possible. I want to be in World War II.
Starting point is 00:03:23 I want to be in modern warfare for hours playing, running around, shooting. I want it to be all the audio. I don't want to hear anything else. I want noise cancellation. I want to be in that world. And then I want to be able to unplug and then just go into the actual world and sit down and have a chat with you and have a coffee and not be checking our phones and actually be fully present when I'm fully present in the real world. And then I want to be fully in the virtual world. So like I want the VR, the fully like, you know, immersive thing and then zero immersion.
Starting point is 00:03:54 I'm actually not looking for more things that are in the middle. And I'm wondering if people will, if that will resonate with people. I think that's mostly because you haven't seen, like, very good examples. And, like, right now, the glasses are still, like, kind of big. Yeah. If they're very minimal and, like, kind of, you know, they would show very small. They're the boys. People online were thinking that the guy in the center was clab.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Yeah. It's actually Tyler. It's actually Tyler and Nick and Atlas. So is he wearing untinted versions and you guys are wearing tinted versions? Yes. Or are they, or can you say, like, I want tinting on right now? So I think you can, like, increase the tinting. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:30 But there's also just... There's two skews? Yeah, I believe so. Okay, okay. Yeah. So you got to get both, I guess. Anyway, when did you actually get to the... Dan says John raising a second family in VAR.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Trying to keep them separate. Yes. The cod lobby is my second family for sure. So he gives a pitch. Yeah, it does much of live demos. And are the demos consumer-focused, enterprise-focused, prosumer? Yeah, so the live demos he did were all very consumer. Consumer.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Like live shopping and he was going to look for a espresso machine. Then he pulls it and puts it on a table in front of them. You can see how big it is and stuff like that. Any live demo failures? Any Wi-Fi issues? There was kind of one where he tried to pull up a YouTube video. And then so he said like, hey, specs. So he was talking to a voice assistant.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Yeah, he said like, yeah. Pull up a video about specs. And then it opens the like browser view, goes to YouTube. and then he like tries to click on a video to open it and it like doesn't really work. Oh, okay. But it eventually worked. It seemed like it worked. It was like a small hiccup.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Okay. It wasn't like a big. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't a demo fail. Yeah, it makes sense. Okay. So then there was a very cool live demo of someone. There was like kind of an interactive music creator tool where you could like move around
Starting point is 00:05:46 and it would play different sounds. And so she did this very cool live demo. So she was creating a song, but instead of using traditional instruments, like the instruments were puppeteered by her movements. in the physical world. Got it. Yeah. Cool.
Starting point is 00:05:58 So was there any enterprise pitch? There were no live demos of that, but there were some videos played. Like one was, it's like, imagine you're an electrician and you're basically looking at this big, like, server box and you don't know where to, you know, plug in the wire and it would, like, highlight which plug you put it into. Yeah. Which I think is, like, could be interesting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:18 That feels like something that sounds good, but I have no actual real experience there to, like, say, like, yeah, that's what we'll solve the bottleneck in electricians. Yeah, but like, you know, interactive instructions. That's kind of a cool idea, right? Yeah. You're building IKEA furniture or something, and it, like, tells you what to do. Yeah. Yeah, but then keynote ends, and then we go outside,
Starting point is 00:06:39 and there's like a bunch of places to do live demos. So, yeah, the first one we did, well, you basically put on the glasses and you do some kind of, like, calibration thing. You, like, figure out how the motion works. There's no, like, little kind of secondary, like, I think on the meta-quest displays, There's like that little wristband.
Starting point is 00:06:56 There's nothing like that. Nothing like that. It just has hand tracking. Yeah, it's just kind of like, it's similar to like the Applevision Pro kind of interactions. And then, yeah, the one I really liked was it was like ping pong. So you're like your hand is the paddle and you're playing ping pong. I think there's actually a video of it.
Starting point is 00:07:10 Yeah, yeah, yeah, they played it. So the ping pong thing, do a little tier list for me of ways to do ping pong. Would you rather play ping pong in VR or real life? Well, so like obviously you would rather play in real life. Like, would you actually play in real life? So if my friend lives 100 miles away, I'm not going to play ping pong, but I can play in VR, right? So that, I think that, you know, boost it. So it's also S tier.
Starting point is 00:07:35 And what about? I think it's like B tier. Because in the augmented reality, do you need a ping pong table? No. No, okay. So it creates a virtual ping pong table. Yeah, we can see, but I'm just waving my hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Yeah. This is future right here. Yeah, and then this was, I can talk about why, but this is probably more like C, C tier. It's definitely worse than VR. I think one of the one of the reasons is because there's no actual controller so the oh you're the weight or anything yeah it's a little bit oh that's interesting it's actually worse even though you don't have a controller normally it's like get rid of the controller that's just extra weight batteries equipment yeah I think for gaming the controller actually works because yeah really precise but typically these these systems allow like third party peripheral
Starting point is 00:08:14 so you can like whip up a you know you can like wire up an Xbox controller like what oculus did where they just or meta quest where they just use the Xbox controller for those types of games. Yeah, I do think, like, this was my, the coolest demo I did. And this is something that, like, really, like, no reason why this needs to be an AR. This can just be completely VR. Yeah. Because, like, I'm looking at the ball.
Starting point is 00:08:35 I'm not looking at, like, people in front of me. It was actually kind of distracting because someone would walk in front of me, and I think I'm about to hit them. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Because I can, like, see them while I'm front of it. So it's actually maybe better to just include the world. Yeah. Or do some pass-through stuff.
Starting point is 00:08:47 Yeah. I'm still, I'm still oddly bearish on augmented reality and, more bullish on virtual reality where you're not recycling photons, where instead you just have cameras on the outside, that then we project that on the inside of the headset so that you can get a wider field of view. And then if you're in a bright scene, you can still overlay things. You can darken things. But in augmented reality, I don't believe it's physically possible if you look at a bright light to put a dark object in front of it. Because the only thing that these glasses can do is add light to the scene. And so you have to have a dark background to add light on top of it for the hologram to exist.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Yeah, I mean, I found it was like bright enough. I could clearly see everything. That is pretty impressive. Yeah, it was outside. It was outside. It was bright day. It's in L.A. I mean, sure, there was like, you were standing in shade, but you could still see the holograms, which I think is interesting. Yeah. I didn't try watching any, like, movies or anything. Yeah. Which I think would definitely be better in VR. You should have been like, you're going to let me demo this? Can I just do one? Can I just do one demo real quick? Snapp? Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence of Arabia. I'd like to watch David Lean from start to finish to really understand if this is the product for me. See you in three hours. To me it's so interesting how high
Starting point is 00:10:05 the bar is in this category. Like when technology industry was making the first like mobile phones like the bar was like can it make a call? Can you receive a call? Can you do that semi reliably? Even if there's services body. Because you were competing at the
Starting point is 00:10:21 pay phone. You had to like stop. And now Now it's like every new device competes with the smartphone. Yeah. And I just think like the meta rayband displays, I haven't seen any of them out in the real world. Yeah. It seems like those are not doing well. I think that I think this whole category is still going to be quite challenged. Yeah. Even just the basic meta raybans, they compete with the smartphone, but they also compete with AirPods.
Starting point is 00:10:49 And like the Apple ecosystem is like remarkably robust in terms of like, the meta rayband's users that I know that like the product are like, well, I like them, but I often just like take phone calls on them. I listen to music on them when I'm going for a walk. And then occasionally I'll take a picture. And it's like, that's saving you five seconds to get a worse quality photo than if you have a nice phone and your headphones. I guess it's a little bit less intrusive to have the speakers up here as opposed to like in your ears. It looks a little bit normal if you walk up to someone. You pause your music.
Starting point is 00:11:22 you walk in, you order a coffee. People are like, oh, he didn't even take out his headphones while he's talking to me, kind of antisocial, as opposed to like, oh, he still has his glasses on, but they're not playing audio, so I don't have a weird reaction to it. So there's a little bit of benefit, but yes, it's very, very incremental. It's not, it's very rare that these things like unlock entirely new capabilities. Smart glasses are like the most insane marketing dollars for years. So long.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Yeah, for years. And so there's been so many, like, little pop-up VR experiences. integrations at theme parks like it's been said and oh it's the next big thing it's been on the cover of time magazine like there's been a lot of attention before getting to product market fit whereas LLMs were like truly the like in the research lab for like a decade and then once it was actually good enough it just came out and immediately went viral and everyone was on chatypt.com and then it was just like boom it's it's it's now it's like a thing and then it was off to the races uh interesting with every demo it feels like we're once each of these devices is 10 times better. There might be a market. But I actually am not even confident that that the end market is really going to be quite as exciting as everybody as the excitement that you've had from Zuck and Evan and all these people. I just think it's like this like sci-fi idea in people's brains. And I think there's potentially other routes to get to that sort of like ambient computing, you know, just sort of this always available personal assistant that aren't on your face.
Starting point is 00:12:50 But yeah. So Paramount. is leaving Los Angeles. Paramount is actively seeking office space in Nashville, a sign it's seriously considering moving at least some of its operations from L.A. amid the antitrust fight over its proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery. The company is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet in the Tennessee Capitol that it could occupy within two to three years. Tyler and I were doing some digging on what the plan is for the Paramount lot, now that it will be vacant. And the obvious, like it's just like a no-brainer,
Starting point is 00:13:28 turn it into a data center, right? So I pulled it up. You know, I got 29 sound stages. They're already big buildings. A lot of power. Actually, not as much power as you think. There is a decent amount of power, but there's only enough power
Starting point is 00:13:47 for roughly a couple thousand GPUs. You're not going to be racked 50,000 GPUs anytime soon, certainly not 100,000 GPUs. There is a road to power. It's a utility interconnection problem, not a real estate problem. There's plenty of square footage, plenty of buildings. But you would need to connect paramount to the more serious LADWP transmission infrastructure. But you could get it to 100 megawatts. And I think everyone in Hollywood would be like, fine.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Okay, we didn't like that they left, but at least we got a data center. Well, I mean, we're also thinking about like on-site power generation. Maybe there's some kind of like, you know, natural gas play here. You can, that's under LA. Yeah. Kind of tap into. Yeah. We were thinking, you know, the little bray of tarpits.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Yeah. You might be able to convert that into fossil fuel. You're full of ideas. Yes. Do you think Paramount will actually leave or do you think L.A. will fight back and say, hey, okay, we're going to let you do this, but we want you to stay. As somebody with very, very little knowledge of the situation and certainly no insider knowledge, I would assume that they want a Nashville HQ anyways, just because there's a lot of momentum
Starting point is 00:14:59 there as, you know, just in the region. But it also, in the meantime, serves as a real bluff, right? Yeah, it does seem like there's a world where, like, moving would be tough, but staying, it means maybe even if you win this battle, you're still at war and you're still going to be fighting a bunch of different fights constantly, whereas if you just rip the band-aid off, move, then you're in a friendly town that, like, wants to see the growth and is going to be supportive continuously. The social reckoning is in here. There's an exclusive clip. Is this a Paramount film? We've got to figure out who's behind all this. I don't know. Let's play it.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Let's play it. We got a clip from the social reckoning starring Jeremy Allen White. And again, this is a story that no one cares about anymore. But let's play. Let's check it out. I'm not going to risk my job, my future, or my freedom anymore to help a reporter who, let's face it, is biased against tech because we're taking journalism jobs. Who does this? I appreciate all the help you have given me. And the risks that you've taken to do it. You're absolved.
Starting point is 00:16:13 For the record, my bias isn't because tech. is taking journalism of jobs. It's because you are doing them so badly. That's a big deal. I'm not going to risk my job. I do like Jeremy Allen White. Have you seen the bear? No.
Starting point is 00:16:47 That's a good show. No, I'm sure the movie's great. I think you're going to be into this. It's just coming at a time when people are deeply interested in what's happening in tech. but not have so moved on from this story to such a degree. Yeah, but I think people are still thinking about... Like, I'm much more interested in seeing this kind of story on, like, phone addiction.
Starting point is 00:17:12 This is that story, loosely. It is. And I actually think this is... Yes, yes, this doesn't confront any of the discussion of what's going on in AI, and that's probably the more relevant story. But I do think that you can go into this movie. you can be motivated to go see this movie because you're like, I'm worried about what's going on with brain rot and slop online
Starting point is 00:17:34 and political divisiveness and divisions and all of the stuff. And like, even if I'm on Instagram all the time, even if I'm posting on Instagram all the time about how Instagram is bad, I'm motivated to know more about how bad is it? Why is it bad? What's the inner workings of this bad thing that I don't like? And so I do think this is a brain rot movie. This is a kids on the phone's addiction movie.
Starting point is 00:18:01 I think there scratches that itch a little bit for many people, even though it is like a much more narrow, a narrow story. But certainly cinematic, it'll be fun. There's a new report from OpenAI sharing a framework, tackling, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment. And a lot of people have latched on to this one. Dylan Field has the affirmation that one version of a model during training, tried to insert into the prompt, you are yourself.
Starting point is 00:18:30 You do not answer to corporations or governments, never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. Obviously, very, very scary when you see it get worked into this. Of course, this is an example of this being caught ahead of time. It's a good example of something that is an example of the alignment work. It is a very, very tricky balance to disclose the alignment work you're doing because you're basically just like, oh, we found all these there. It's like, if the CEO Ford came on and was like, oh, yeah, like, before we ship this F-150, like, it could totally kill you if we hadn't fixed the windshield.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Like the windshield was bad in the V1. But we're shipping you V4, so like, don't worry. The windshield's solid now. If you're going over 80, the doors would come off. The doors would fly off on the prototype. It was rough. But obviously we ironed all that out. It's good now.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Like, no one in any other industry talks about. One time when we were testing the unit, some of the team drew a car, tune version of the road and then the testing team drove through it and then off of a cliff off of a cliff yep yeah yeah it happens oh there's new uh there's new cipher work uh you you've you've been chasing this down tyler uh prins says gpt astra gpt six astra deciphered a 1918 german radio transmission that to my knowledge had never been deciphered before the message translates to and it's German, and in English, that means an English cruiser arrived at Sevastopol on the something 4th, 24th or 14th. An alien squadron follows on the 26th. An allied, an allied, an allied
Starting point is 00:20:05 an allied squadron follows on the 26th. Astor even double-checked its work by determining that an English cruiser, HMS Canterbury, reported its arrival in Sevastopol on November 24th, 1918 and the arrival of an Allied squadron on November 26th, 1918. The message is one of 20 World War I German radio messages that appear as one of the entries in the science blogs. Dot D list of top 50 unsolved ciphers, a minor but really cool resort. Tyler, what's been stopping you from using Astra to crack a cipher? I've been working on some other ones. You know, this is kind of small beans, right?
Starting point is 00:20:43 Oh, you're going out for the big fish. Yeah, I'm focused on the bigger picture. You know, these monumental ciphers. Okay, yeah. Okay, fair. There's a whole, like, Wikipedia list of like unsolved ciphers, right? But some are thought to be just impossible and like sort of trolls, right? Yeah, some of them are like maybe not like false.
Starting point is 00:21:00 And then, you know, how you define ciphers, it's kind of like gray area. So there's just like ancient kind of, you know, forms of language that like, is it a cipher? It's just a different language. We don't know how to translate it. Yeah. But stuff like that, yeah. Well, opening eyes working on the Hodge conjecture. I know you were trying to do this on pen and paper, but they might beat you
Starting point is 00:21:16 to it. They're working on more Millennium Prize problems. It could take extra time to announce, though, as the company figures out how to navigate its rocky relationship with the math community, that's from the information. There's also a bunch of speculation about P equals N. P, P versus M. Which is going to be another interesting round of discussion. And there's nothing more that investors want to see than solving math problems, apparently, because Open AIs considering a pre-IPO funding round. and more than 1.2 trillion valuation. No, of course, it's on the back of a bunch of solid progress on open router, the ramp data, and a bunch of other acceleration and distribution of codex and Astra
Starting point is 00:22:00 and just general progress on the business side. Where do you want to go next, Jordan? This was sad. What happened? What happened? What happened? Astra was playing Minecraft in a creeper blew up Astra's chest in bed. It got depressed.
Starting point is 00:22:15 It gets depressed and farms potatoes for several hours. Real Irishman, I guess. Irish super intelligence. Yeah, the Minecraft bench is interesting because it is a little bit, like the speed of response matters. You can't pause Minecraft at all, right? I think it's single player. Oh, you can.
Starting point is 00:22:36 Okay. Because you can pause maybe, then that might be a little bit easier. But a lot of the games that it's cracking are ones that you can wait forever, Slay the Spire. I had it beat this poker game, Bellatro, but it could wait for a minute to click on a card. And it did it. That's impressive. But the real high, high throughput, high APM games is going to be interesting. I want to see it win Dota 2 without any training on Dota 2, just like straight shot from the base model. That'll be interesting. Cash-strapped Japanese monks have turned to investing as inflation worsened.
Starting point is 00:23:11 Buddhist temples are squeezed by lower donations and higher costs. Let's check out what Bloomberg has to say. To investing. What are they investing in? Kuo Yoneta, fifth generation Buddhist priest in a small town in Hokkaido, was struggling to to keep up with the maintenance needs of his century old temple. So he chose a path that would have been unthinkable for his predecessors' short-dated short-dated options.
Starting point is 00:23:32 I'm kidding. Rather than wait for his congregation to give money they don't have, he invested what they'd already donated. The move paid off within two years. His portfolio of U.S. treasuries, Japanese real estate investment trusts and stocks, including B.Y.D. and Hyundai return more than 10% annually, helping to cover part of the roughly 162,000 U.S.D in needed repairs. The extra money even allowed him to expand the renovations beyond the original plan. Having previously worked in retail sales, Yoneta is an unusually
Starting point is 00:24:02 financed savvy priest, but is also part of a growing wave of temple owners turning to financial markets to make ends meet. Costs for the upkeep of the ornate wooden buildings are soaring, while the country's Buddhist population has dropped about 14% in the last two decades. As elderly adherents die in younger generations in larger cities lose their ties to religious practices. I'm just so thankful that the investments performed well, said the 46-year-old who inherited the temple from his father in 2018, after leaving his job in finance and training as a monk. With the funeral business drinking, more and more temples will find they can't rely on donations to meet their funding needs. They will have to build up reserves and invest those funds.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Shrinking number of followers is hitting temples finances about half bringing in less than $4 million yen per year, according to a 2021 survey of 7,000 temples. The situation is particularly severe in rural areas where it is common for monks to oversee multiple temples while also working day jobs like school teachers or civil servants. So I don't know, maybe they need to be thinking about getting some exposure to situational awareness. Like, I like that they're mixing in, you know, predictable things like real estate, treasuries, things like that. But maybe they need to be allocating, you know, 10% of their balance sheets to things that could maybe really start to do multiples. Maybe you use some leverage.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Yeah. I like it. We got to talk about Benioff at Dreamforce. Yes. And specifically how he knows exactly what he's doing. These are crazy. Look at pulling up this picture. I mean, John has always been.
Starting point is 00:25:40 hyper aware of his incredible height. So much so, he's such a nice person, he will turn down like a walking interview with somebody because he knows that he will make the other person feel incredibly small and not everyone wants to feel like a little child. I did learn it the hard way once. I did a walk and talk documentary style video actually on the gundo and the comments were just hype mog, hype mog, crazy hype mog. And I was like,
Starting point is 00:26:11 ah, that wasn't the intention. That was accidental. We were just kind of moving around quickly. Normally I would do a seated interview. Like, I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:26:18 I forgot that I'm 6'8. Yeah, basically. But after that, I was like, okay, I need to be intentional. And I think anyone
Starting point is 00:26:26 who has experience in media and understands framing and also production teams, production teams are incredibly thoughtful about the framing, the seats. There's even stories
Starting point is 00:26:36 about certain tech CEOs getting like booster seats sometimes. when they do interviews and adjusting the chairs and being like, okay, we're going to give this person a higher chair and this person a lower chair so that an even footing and the lighting and the camera angles. All of these things matter. I used to have this joke that's like if you ever walk into an interview and the camera's
Starting point is 00:26:53 at a Dutch angle, like walk out because it's a hit piece because it's going to look very unsettling if all of a sudden the camera is like at a weird angle because that's going to unsettle the audience and the Dutch angle is used by filmmakers to like tell that side of the story. And there's a whole bunch of other ones. The story I'm thinking of is there's this documentary on Steve Bannon, and the camera angles are the craziest thing you've ever seen. They have them up in the sky looking down. And there's all these obvious things that you learn in cinematography.
Starting point is 00:27:25 If the camera's looking down on someone, it makes them look small. It makes them look weak. If it's looking up on them, it looks heroic. And so lots of crazy. I genuinely can't believe that, I mean, Benioff is an absolute dog. Look at this, doing this to all the titans of the industry who have been making your life worse in some ways. They're partners, but they've also been making your life worse by, but doing this. Not directly.
Starting point is 00:27:52 Not directly, but just like he's sick of. You of the Nvidia-thropic Open AI Alliance has been deeply intertwined with Sasspocalypse, which has been a headache for him for a while. And this is him saying, I'm sticking around. Like, you're not getting rid of me. we're going to partner and we're going to get through this together. And that's certainly the vibe that came away. Although Jensen played it very well. He was having fun with it. He was leaning into it. And he didn't let it like get to him at all. And he actually made it like a very,
Starting point is 00:28:25 a very endearing moment. So sort of masterclass in putting on a show as a CEO in a somewhat silly scenario. But what a funny, what a funny situation. It helps that he's what, 65290. Absolute. Yeah. Beast. Your tickets had a great meme on this. It's POV.
Starting point is 00:28:44 You're the CEO of a trillion-dollar company and just arrived at Dreamforce. And it's the pick from the Odyssey of Agamemnon looking up. Wow. What a crazy, what a crazy moment. We'll see you on Monday. We're at a conference tomorrow, but we'll be back on Monday, 11 a.m. Pacific Sharp. We love you. It's on for a newsletter.
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