Siri Needs an App, Who is John Ternus, Shervin Pishevar's Iran Deep Dive, Scott Nolan Truth Nuke

Watch on YouTube ↗ | January 13, 2026 at 23:01 | 3:33:18 | TBPN

Speakers

John Coogan — Co-Host, TBPN

Horacio Rozanski — CEO, Booz Allen Hamilton

Glenn Fogle — CEO, Booking Holdings Inc.

JD Ross — Co-founder, With Coverage

Sajith Wickramasekara — Co-founder and CEO, Benchling

Scott Nolan — Managing Director, Founders Fund

Shervin Pishevar — Venture Capitalist

Summary

TBPN covers Apple's Siri and AI strategy, the Apple-Google Gemini deal, and the post-Cook succession race, along with interviews with Booz Allen, Booking Holdings, With Coverage, Sandstone AI, Defense Unicorns, and Benchling. Market-relevant takeaways include improving biotech sentiment, Booking's scale in agentic travel, Booz Allen's government AI and cyber positioning, disruption risk for traditional insurance brokers, and nuclear fuel enrichment as a bottleneck for AI-driven nuclear power. Scott Nolan's nuclear discussion frames uranium and SMRs as long-term beneficiaries.

Hosts debate whether Siri needs an app and how LLM query monetization could evolve.
Apple succession coverage focuses on hardware chief John Ternus as a potential Tim Cook replacement.
Shervin Pishevar describes Iran's protests as a revolution and highlights Starlink's role.
Booz Allen CEO emphasizes AI, cyber, and commercial partnerships in government missions.
Booking Holdings CEO says agentic travel will take time but scale and direct relationships help.
With Coverage founder pitches flat-fee AI brokerage against Marsh, Aon, and Lockton.
Benchling CEO says biotech mood is improving with XBI trading well and M&A returning capital.
Scott Nolan explains US nuclear enrichment bottlenecks and the need for domestic fuel capacity.

Ideas

John Coogan Co-Host, TBPN 6:09

Siri needs an app to fix AI

Siri has only about 500 million users against 1.5 billion iPhone users and has never had an app, so Apple is underutilizing its AI distribution. John argues Siri needs an app to make long LLM chats useful and that Apple's AI execution has been botched; the Gemini integration improves the model, but Apple still needs better implementation and must avoid becoming an agentic-AI laggard despite strong ecosystem lock-in.

John Coogan Co-Host, TBPN 6:22

LLM query monetization turns profitable

The Apple-Google Gemini deal makes sense because Google can eventually monetize LLM queries through ads, affiliate fees, or transaction fees. As inference costs fall and per-query monetization rises, LLM queries should flip from losses to profits, leading Google to pay Apple for routing queries and still profit from Gemini in Siri.

Horacio Rozanski CEO, Booz Allen Hamilton 99:15

Booz Allen leads government AI/cyber

Booz Allen is the largest AI provider to the federal government and a long-time leader in federal cyber, with most business in national security. The administration wants to expand defense budgets while bringing commercial technology into government missions, and Booz Allen's partnerships with commercial AI, autonomy, quantum, and space companies position it to capture that spending.

Glenn Fogle CEO, Booking Holdings Inc. 121:17

Booking's scale wins agentic travel

Agentic commerce will take time for complex travel, but Booking has scale, 65% direct traffic, loyalty, and thousands of engineers. It is working with all frontier AI players and building its own AI executive-assistant capabilities, so it can stitch together flights, hotels, cars, and restaurants better than a generalist agent and avoid disintermediation.

JD Ross Co-founder, With Coverage 150:12

AI flat-fee brokers disrupt incumbents

Traditional insurance brokers get paid more when clients spend more on insurance, creating misaligned incentives. With Coverage charges a flat fee, nets out commissions, and uses AI to automate admin and risk analysis, allowing it to go head-to-head with Marsh, Aon, and Lockton and take their clients by doing the broker job better.

Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder and CEO, Benchling 183:14

Biotech sentiment and M&A recovering

Biotech sentiment is improving: XBI has been trading well, M&A has returned money to investors, and tariff and most-favored-nation drug-pricing concerns have settled for now. Eli Lilly becoming a trillion-dollar pharma company also raises ambitions for the sector, even though drug discovery remains a long, difficult process.

Scott Nolan Managing Director, Founders Fund 192:56

Nuclear fuel enrichment is bottleneck

Fuel enrichment is the key bottleneck for nuclear energy. The US went from about 85% of global enrichment capacity in the 1980s to less than 0.1% today, while AI data centers need clean baseload power and advanced SMRs are being designed to reduce costs. General Matter aims to bring domestic enrichment online by end of decade, supporting uranium and nuclear power demand.

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