Why OpenAI Bought a Podcast — with TBPN’s John Coogan and Jordi Hays

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What They're Doing With the Money — and Fatherhood

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Galloway pivots to the personal, asking what two young fathers plan to do with a 9-figure windfall. Coogan's answer cuts through the expected talk of real estate and cars: a 5-year-old and twin 2-year-olds have clarified his values sharply. He wants time, peace, to be a better chess player, and to not win by too large a margin. Money helps but is a small piece of the puzzle. Hays is more structural about it: he and his wife made an explicit divide-and-conquer agreement early on — she focused on the household and family infrastructure, he focused completely on the show. That clarity enabled him to be fully present both at work and at home rather than mediocre at both. He is now expecting their third child, and between the two hosts they will have six children. Galloway, clearly moved, says the nicest thing about their story is not the acquisition — it is that talented young men are raising children in loving, secure, present households.