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OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’ (www.ft.com)
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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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[–] XLE@piefed.social 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

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.