John Coogan is a cofounder and cohost of TBPN, the daily live technology-business show he presents with Jordi Hays. Before his media work, he cofounded Soylent and Lucy, bringing experience in software, ecommerce and building consumer businesses to his interviews.[7][8][9]
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Coogan’s career account describes serving as Soylent’s cofounder and CTO from 2013 to 2017, working on the company as it grew beyond its initial small team. He then cofounded Lucy with David Renteln and Samy Hamdouche. His work there included the chief marketing officer role, ecommerce and advertising. His later media work includes technology videos and TBPN.[8][9]
Contributions
Keep the full conversation alongside the daily broadcast
Coogan and Hays host TBPN’s weekday live program and publish full episodes, focused interviews and clips. OpenAI acquired TBPN in April 2026 with an explicit commitment to the show’s editorial independence. The format gives its hosts a continuing conversation with technology leaders while allowing individual interviews to circulate separately.[1][7]
Question the builders behind product announcements
Coogan and Hays ask Brockman about reasoning, computer use and agents, and discuss cybersecurity with CrowdStrike and NVIDIA executives at Fal.Con. The hosts frame the questions; guests supply the product claims and forecasts.[3][4]
Connect industry news to operating experience
The Model Mayhem episode combines headline discussion with interviews spanning enterprise software, hardware and consumer security. The longer Math Wars broadcast brings in guests working on infrastructure, software agents and healthcare. Together, these programs show the range of Coogan’s shared hosting work rather than a single topic or company affiliation.[5][6]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
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Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAIshare.transistor.fmA standalone interview about AI reasoning, computer use and future applications.
Try the focused Brockman conversation before a multi-hour daily episode. Listen for the follow-up questions about how capabilities become usable products, and treat the discussion’s forward-looking claims as the participants’ views.
Cohost with Jordi Hays[3]Original source- Math Wars, GG Navier Stokes, Greg Brockman Joins | Dan Wright, Eric Seufert, Scott Wu, Sahir Jaggi, Andrew Borovsky, Harry Mellsopshare.transistor.fm
A roundtable covering Cognition's new funding and Scott Wu's view on orchestrating models, tools, and context for Devin, alongside Greg Brockman discussing OpenAI's Navier-Stokes result and where agentic and mathematical AI capability is headed.
Catalog workOriginal source A daily program with technology-news discussion and interviews across several industries.
Cohost with Jordi Hays[6]Original source- LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 | George Kurtz, Michael Sentonas, Daniel Bernard & Justin Boitanoshare.transistor.fm
A live conference broadcast with CrowdStrike and NVIDIA leaders.
Cohost with Jordi Hays[4]Original source