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▶ 3:46 · $BIRD · Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
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Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN

2026-05-21 · 7 company · 5 thematic
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john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

joey

SemiAnalysis researcher authoring the tokconomics newsletter on Anthropic/OpenAI business models, API margins, and frontier lab competitive dynamics.

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“Allbirds has pretty much been down only... They basically kept the public entity and that's what they're building the Neo cloud through.”
—joey
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