It’s difficult to imagine another show capturing the zeitgeist of an industry as quickly and as thoroughly as TBPN has in the past few months while emerging as the preferred daily show of Silicon Valley and tech CEOs for three hours each weekday.
Hosted by Party Round founder Jordi Hayes and Soylent founder John Coogan, the show originally launched as Technology Brothers (a play on tech bros), and has exploded since its beginning just one year ago. It now counts a slew of tech-famous executives and founders among its guests — Palmer Lucky of Anduril and Brian Chesky of Airbnb are recent examples.
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TBPN President Dylan Abruscato told cllct the “SportsCenterification of the show” is a huge driver of its success.
The show treats entrepreneurs like athletes, spinning up social media graphics to announce the latest hire in the AI talent wars the same way ESPN might announce Kevin Durant’s trade to the Rockets.
One running bit on the show is a gong, which the hosts use as a punctuation mark when a guest announces exciting news.
“It’s kind of like a ‘Boo-Ya’ from Stuart Scott,” Abruscato said of the gong.
When TBPN interviewed Mark Zuckerberg last month at Meta Connect, they brought along a travel gong.
“We had him sign it like a game-used gong,” Abruscato recalled.
Now, the show has gathered seven of those travel gongs, all engraved with the TBPN logo, with a lofty goal: Have every CEO of the MAG 7 sign one.
Short-hand for “Magnificent 7,” the group refers to seven of the most significant and dominant tech companies on the planet: Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla.
Gong No. 2 was checked off Tuesday afternoon after TBPN hosted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
It is a natural progression for the show. After all, if you’re going to treat CEOs like star athletes, why wouldn’t you get their autograph?
“In the same way that baseball autograph collectors try to get a signed ball from every 500 Home Run Club member,” Abruscato explained. “Our MAG 7 is the 500 Home Run Club.”
The plan, when all seven are eventually signed, is to hang them from the rafters in the show’s Los Angeles studio, which Abruscato says they have dubbed the “Temple of Technology.”
“It’s kind of like our first-ballot Hall of Fame class.”
Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture.