Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
TBPN's integrated ad model is so embedded that John Coogan read a Ramp ad directly to Mark Zuckerberg before his interview, reaching an audience member who normally never sees ads.
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Bending Spoons is pricing its IPO and Galloway runs the numbers live: Q1 2025 revenue of $270M with a $120M loss has flipped to $625M in Q1 2026 with $27M profit — a roughly $2.5B annualised run rate. The valuation at $18-20B implies approximately 8x revenue, reasonable for a SaaS business with 88% recurring revenue. [1] — Scott Galloway "Bending Spoons — the Italian company behind AOL, Vimeo, and WeTransfer — is pricing its IPO at $18-20B on a $2.5B revenue run rate with 88%…" 42:50 The bear case is leverage: 4x debt-to-EBITDA is aggressive, and organic growth is only 13%. Coogan's counter is structural: legacy brands like AOL that have already survived cloud disruption, mobile disruption, and social disruption are the most defensible businesses in tech. Nobody is vibe-coding an AOL competitor in 2026. The business runs on long-term advertiser relationships, not venture growth dynamics, which makes it genuinely different from what kills most tech startups.
Bending Spoons — the Italian company behind AOL, Vimeo, and WeTransfer — is pricing its IPO at $18-20B on a $2.5B revenue run rate with 88% recurring revenue. Galloway likes the concept; Coogan argues legacy brands that survived cloud, mobile, and social disruption are almost impossible to kill. The bear case: 4x levered debt and barely organic growth.
Bending Spoons, pricing its IPO at an $18-20B valuation, has 88% recurring revenue across its portfolio of legacy consumer brands like AOL and Vimeo.
TBPN found a way to put ads in front of the most ad-immune people on earth. Before his live interview, Mark Zuckerberg sat with headphones on while John Coogan read him a Ramp ad. The in-studio screen showed sponsor logos. Then every clip shared afterward ended with a full ad read. The reach per dollar is enormous — because the audience is exactly who the advertiser wants.
Every 1-minute TBPN clip shared on social media has brand logos and a full ad read at the end, dramatically extending advertiser reach beyond the live show.
Snap is projected to do over $6 billion in revenue this year while trading at only a $7 billion market cap — implying roughly an 80% discount. Galloway says the real unlock would be spinning out its Spectacles hardware division. The counterargument: Evan Spiegel seems comfortable being the young billionaire CEO of an online nation of Zoomers and has little incentive to change.
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