“TBPN” and the Rise of the Tech-Friendly Talk Show

Recently, on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, a half-dozen screens flashed an advertisement for the buzziest new talk show in the financial world. It was a web show, only about a year old, called “TBPN,” or “Technology Business Programming Network”—a daily three-hour-long live stream created by Jordi Hays and John Coogan. “We’re incredibly pro-tech,” Hays explained to me in a small studio perched high above the trading floor. The hum of stockbrokers, pacing the room and shouting into headsets, was audible below him. “We believe it has a net very positive impact on the world,” he continued. “We are enthusiasts for technology. We’re fans.”