@theventure: These guys went from making tech videos on YouTube to selling their podcast to OpenAI for $100M 🎙️💰 It all starts in October 2024 with one text message: the name of the podcast is Technology Brothers. John Coogan and Jordi Hays have no studio, no sponsors, and no audience. While CNBC looks at the stock market, John and Jordi look at what's trending on X. Then they go live in suits for three hours straight, covering tech news. Their first growth hack is simple: find a tweet, print it on paper, and hope that at least the person who posted it sees it. ✓ Grows the audience fast, but chases the most powerful people in tech instead of mass subscribers ✓ Gets Zuck showing up, then Sam Altman, with CEOs treating TBPN like their unofficial press office ✓ Takes no outside investors and sells out every ad slot for the year ✓ Hits $5 million in revenue in year one, pacing $30 million in year two One text naming the show → no studio, no audience → suits and three-hour live tech news → print a tweet and hope they see it → chase the powerful, not the masses → CEOs make it their press office → $100M OpenAI deal in 18 months. Sometimes reaching the right hundred people beats reaching a million. Which handful of people, if they showed up, would matter more than a million followers? 🤔 #Business #TBPN #Podcasting #Success #Entrepreneur @TBPN @Jordi Hays @John Coogan

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