Common Room Gets Acquired by Zoom, Fable 5 Returns, and Someone Sold a Company With 4 Million Fake Customers (Ep. 68)

Zoom announces it’s acquiring Common Room and inches closer to being an all-in-one revenue platform?? Anthropic’s Fable 5 access is back after the government put a hold on it, and OpenAl delayed its IPO to 2027 while blaming the weather (the market weather, apparently).

Also, an employee gets fired over an Elmo meme, a 28-year-old faked 4 million customers to sell JPMorgan a $175 million lie, and a couple of Closed Lost gems made the case that LinkedIn is basically Tinder now.

Timestamps: 0:00 Cold open: Zoom is buying Common Room 1:04 Welcome back (Tas is on PTO, holiday week) 1:39 Urgent All Hands 1:42 Zoom acquires Common Room 3:37 Anthropic restores Fable 5 access 4:54 OpenAl delays its IPO to 2027 and blames the weather 7:10 Let's Noodle: fired over an Elmo meme on Facebook 9:54 A 28-year-old faked 4M customers and sold the lie to JPMorgan for $175M 13:48 Closed Lost 14:16 Alvin Edfors on agencies bragging about "matched with your wife on Tinder" subject lines 15:15 Nika Kotláriková on LinkedIn becoming Tinder

Connect with the hosts: Tim Davidson: linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41 Tas Bober: linkedin.com/in/tasbober

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