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**Jordi Hays** (0:00)
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**John Coogan** (0:02)
Today is Friday, August 14th, 2026 We are live from the TBPN Ultradome, the Temple of Technology, the Fortress of Finance, the Capital of Capital. Oh, we got Spent Maxon back there.

**Jordi Hays** (0:16)
That's our Zoomer intern, he's headed back to school.

**John Coogan** (0:20)
Let me tell you about ramp.com really quick. Time is money, save both, he's used corporate cards, bill pay, accounting and a whole lot more, all in one place.
We got to play the see you again goodbye like he passed away.
This is the saying goodbye to our intern, Ben Macklin.
We need an AI video of me and him in sports cars driving along the Pacific Coast Highway and then we reach a fork in the road. He goes off to Canada and Jordi goes to Malibu or something. But every time this song hits, it's a good one, it's a good one. Anyway, we're very, very sad to say goodbye. End of an era, but the story is not over. So, Weatherman, Ben Macklin, one of the greatest to ever do it. Yeah, the story is not over. Anyway, there are a ton of stories that are not over. We're going to take you through a bunch of them. First is that we received a renaissance painting in the mail from a company called Gamet. They posted a video. We can play their little clip of how they put this together. Very funny, go-to-market strategy. It got our attention. We opened it up. I'm like, what is this huge box that's addressed to us? Turns out it's an AI image of me and Jordi dressed as renaissance medieval knights or something, banging a gong, got the horse in there, got a bunch of different stuff. I would go Ben Macklin stand up over this, but it's a close second. It's a close second. Very disrespectful to Ben Macklin's pop-up. He's gone. He's gone. Anyway, can we play the video of the, we asked gamut agents to make renaissance portraits of 130 startup founders, found the founders, sourced their photos, ordered the paintings, found their offices, mapped the delivery route. Very cool workflow for go to market for attention.
And funny, they're dressed up in costumes. They're having fun filming this. I feel like we are entering a new era of startup launch video. The Vibreel meta is dead and this is unique. And the next one we're going to show you is unique too, in my opinion. Now, there are some drawbacks with this. You know, it will lose its luster if everyone in the world receives a renaissance painting. It will be a little bit, it will get stale for Hagerwals. I love it. But this is great. I think this is so fun. And this goes back to Sam Blonde when he was at, was it Bracks or he was working with Parker Conrad at Zenefits or something like that. He said that he was in the go-to-market role. He was trying to get on the phone with companies and sell them either corporate cards or HR services at the time. I forget which company he was with, but he would send a box of champagne, a bottle of champagne very nicely. And he said that the return, the uptake on, yeah, I'll hop on the phone with Sam Blonde.

**Jordi Hays** (3:24)
People are saying he invented corporate gifting.

**John Coogan** (3:27)
Basically, I mean, he's sort of the one that pushed it another notch up. Obviously, corporate gifting goes back decades.

**Jordi Hays** (3:35)
Preemptive.

**John Coogan** (3:36)
Preemptive corporate gifting. And I think he systematized it a little bit more than most people do. And Gamut seems to have built an agent that allows you to do just that. So congrats to the team over there on the product.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:49)
Yeah, fascinating.

**Jordi Hays** (3:51)
A fascinating piece of AI slop. But when you put it, when you bring it into the physical world, it transcends. It becomes something more than slop.

**John Coogan** (4:01)
I want your review on this coinage that I heard from my co-founder, Lucy. When AI slop is good, it's AI slap, because it slaps.
Specifically, with regard to Suno songs.

**Jordi Hays** (4:14)
Yeah, I like that.

**John Coogan** (4:15)
You're like, not quite there. But anyway, I want the production team to tell me if this video, which is not AI slaps, because it is an adaptation of obsession from Jerry Zhang over at Lemma, YCF25.
What does F stand for?

**Jordi Hays** (4:35)
Fall.

**John Coogan** (4:36)
Fall 25 Because they do quarterly now. Anyway, let's play this.
Yeah, F.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:42)
I know there was out of office emails.