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TC Tyler Cosgrove Tyler Cosgrove Intern at TBPN, physics student at the University of Michigan

“We were talking with a friend last night. He studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. He doesn't really know much about the news, but we were explaining what happened to him. And I was like, is this the largest unforced error in business history? And I think that it might be.”

TBPN · Startups & Venture · November 2026

“We were talking with a friend last night. He studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. He doesn't really know much about the news, but we were explaining what happened to him. And I was like, is this the largest unforced error in business history? And I think that it might be.” — Tyler Cosgrove, TBPN

Context

The TBPN hosts were handicapping how the Nvidia spy scandal might play out in Congress, and Tyler Cosgrove widened it to the scale of the mistake itself.

Transcript

TBPN Around 05:44 into the episode
Tyler Cosgrove

sure they'll figure out a way to televise some of it.

Speaker 1

Yeah. No, no, I think you're right. I would just probably handicap it at like a moment.

Tyler Cosgrove

Yeah, I think we were talking with a friend last night. He studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. He doesn't really know much about the news, but we were sort of explaining what happened to him. And I was like, is this the largest unforced error in business history? And I think that it might be.

Speaker 1

No, no, I was going back to like, you know, Rockefeller, Henry Ford. Like, there was never a crisis of geopolitical consequence quite like this. It really is uncharted territory. There's been plenty of business scandals in history. There's been political scandals in history, but we were even going…

Tyler Cosgrove

don't know. I just think I don't know enough about that to have a strong stance, although my assumption would be that

Speaker 1

Monica Lewinsky was an American. Yeah, I know, I know, but like having

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