{"id":1001058,"date":"2026-04-04T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001058"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:18:28","slug":"openais-tbpn-acquisition-rooted-in-decade-long-founder-ties-says-john-coogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/openais-tbpn-acquisition-rooted-in-decade-long-founder-ties-says-john-coogan\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s TBPN acquisition rooted in decade-long founder ties, says John Coogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s acquisition of TBPN is rooted in a long-standing relationship between the show\u2019s cofounder John Coogan and OpenAI chief Sam Altman. The relationship dates back roughly 13 years, when Altman invested in Soylent, Coogan\u2019s first startup, in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I reflect on my career\u2026 it makes a lot of sense,\u201d Coogan said during a recent TBPN episode announcing the development. \u201cThis is a plot twist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s acquisition of TBPN is rooted in a long-standing relationship between the show\u2019s cofounder John Coogan and OpenAI chief Sam Altman. The relationship dates back roughly 13 years, when Altman invested in Soylent, Coogan\u2019s first startup, in 2013. \u201cWhen I reflect on my career\u2026 it makes a lot of sense,\u201d Coogan said during a recent TBPN episode announcing the development. \u201cThis is a plot twist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}