The Notorious B2B Show’s Podcast

OpenAI is cutting off Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition, Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck, and HockeyStack’s cofounder is leaving after years of building in public.
This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into OpenAI vs Cursor, billionaire tech pettiness, workplace audacity, Hugging Face’s Microduck, Reddit vs LinkedIn trend timing, Amir leaving HockeyStack, viral ChatGPT flyers, and the week’s weirdest sales posts.
If you’ve got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who saw the OpenAI/Cursor news and immediately knew the customer was about to lose.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode 75 kickoff1:29 - OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition3:29 - Workplace harassment, "difficult" employees, and conference weirdness10:38 - Hugging Face's $399 Microduck robot15:11 - Reddit vs LinkedIn for spotting trends18:59 - Amir leaves HockeyStack24:05 - Closed Won: ChatGPT flyers, AI agents, weird personalization, and ABM armor
 
Connect with the hosts:Tim Davidson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41Tas Bober - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober
Resources & Sources:
Let's Noodle:⁠OpenAI Cuts Cursor Off After SpaceX Buys It⁠ ⁠Called "Difficult" for Refusing⁠
⁠Hugging Face's $399 Duck Robot⁠ ⁠Newsjacking With an AI Agent⁠ Just Flagging:
⁠Emir Atli Leaves HockeyStack⁠ Closed Won: ⁠ChatGPT Flyers Look Cheap⁠ ⁠"You're Such a Good Writer"⁠ ⁠The CEO AI Agent Clapback⁠ ⁠Alli Pope jokes that calling her boss "Big Dawg" has done wonders for their working relationship.⁠ ⁠The Strangest Cold Call You've Received
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Is your AI visibility strategy built on a platform that can disappear from the answers overnight?
 
This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into Accenture asking employees to skip August PTO, Reddit citations reportedly dropping sharply in ChatGPT, Google bidding for Spirit Airlines data, Dan Sanchez leaving LinkedIn over AI slop, and one of the worst outreach personalization fails we’ve seen in a while.
 
Basically: corporate pressure, AI search volatility, data privacy weirdness, and LinkedIn being LinkedIn.
 
If you’ve got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs it.
 
Timestamp:
0:00 - Trailer: Reddit Citations in ChatGPT Dropped 80%
1:44 - Accenture asks employees to skip August PTO
10:02 - Dan Sanchez exits LinkedIn over AI slop
16:41 - LinkedIn tests AI comment flagging
19:47 - Outreach personalization gone wrong
26:06 - Google bids for Spirit Airlines data
35:35 - Reddit citations in ChatGPT dropped 80%
 
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠
Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober ⁠
 
Resources & Sources
 
BIG PROMPT ENERGY:
Reddit citations in ChatGPT⁠ Sami's Post ⁠
 
Google buys Spirit Airlines data
⁠Forbes Article ⁠
 
LET'S NOODLE
⁠Dan Sanchez - the AI Marketing Guy Post ⁠
 
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Are the AI tools B2B marketers are using every day starting to create bigger problems than they solve?
 
This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into a viral AI billboard that turned out to be one human, Claude watermarking AI-generated text, Otter and Granola facing AI note-taker lawsuits, Lovable raising at a massive $13B valuation, and Airtable selling to Bending Spoons after its $11B peak
 
If you've got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs to check what their AI stack is quietly doing.
 
Timestamps:0:00 - Trailer: The "AI" Billboard That Was Actually a Person4:53 - Airtable sells to Bending Spoons8:24 - Lovable's $13B valuation13:54 - Claude starts watermarking AI text21:43 - The "AI" billboard that was actually a person28:04 - Otter, Granola, and the AI note-taker consent problem38:31 - AI agents finding loopholes in the real world47:52 - Closed Won: The best B2B LinkedIn posts of the week
 
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠
Tas Bober - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠
 
Resources & Sources
 
URGENT ALL HANDS:
⁠TechCrunch⁠
 
LET'S NOODLE:
⁠Thomas Peham's post⁠
 
CLOSED WON:
⁠Renée Shaw's post
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Is LinkedIn really going to let people report posts as “AI slop”?
 
This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into LinkedIn’s latest advice on “insight + personality,” the new “Seems like AI slop” report button, Substack and Pangram’s AI detection push, Adam Robinson’s AI whiplash, and one deeply unhinged Claude-in-Slack moment.
 
Basically: everyone wants more humanity, but half the internet is asking Claude how to sound human.
 
If you've got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs it.
 
Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:09 Tim’s almost-DJ career and the B2B album05:22 Does follower count even matter on LinkedIn anymore?09:36 What It Takes to Win on LinkedIn (LinkedIn CEO Dan Shapero)14:44 Why LinkedIn’s interest-based feed feels broken21:02 LinkedIn’s New "Seems Like AI Slop" feature28:12 Substack’s AI detection and "Claudefishing"41:20 Testing Pangram: Can AI detectors spot real human writing?44:47 Adam Robinson warns against AI over-reliance
 
Connect with the hosts:Tim Davidson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41Tas Bober - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober
 
Resources & Sources
LET'S NOODLE:Dani Markovits' post
Nick Bennett's post
Sara Stella Lattanzio's post
BIG PROMPT ENERGY:Adam Robinson's post
CLOSED WON:Ashley Amber Sava's post
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Everyone keeps announcing their LinkedIn breakup, and somehow nobody ever actually leaves.
Tas and Tim opened on the platform question the whole industry keeps circling, whether the grass is really greener over on X, TikTok, or anywhere that is not LinkedIn, and whether piling up followers on a new feed does anything for actual revenue or just scratches the dopamine itch.  
 
From there it only got weirder, with LinkedIn sliding into dating-app territory, beehiiv's CEO inviting customers to roast the product in public, the growing idea that marketers now need a GitHub portfolio to be taken seriously, AI testimonial videos that feel a little too fake to trust, and Adam Robinson texting 1,335 prospects with an AI clone of himself just to see if anyone would notice.  
 
It was a full one, which usually means it was a good one. So, is anyone really leaving LinkedIn, or is this just the annual ritual of pretending we might? Tell us in the comments, or send this to the coworker who has announced their LinkedIn breakup three times already.  
 
Timestamps: 0:00 LinkedIn is dead again?2:33 X vs LinkedIn for B2B marketers24:09 Is LinkedIn becoming a dating app?34:21 beehiiv's CEO asked customers to roast the product43:27 Do marketers need GitHub now?50:23 AI testimonial videos feel wrong1:01:04 Adam Robinson's AI texting experiment1:11:20 Email exclamation point rules
Links and Resources:
Is LinkedIn dead / marketers leaving for X
⁠Post 1⁠
⁠Post 2⁠
⁠Post 3⁠
LinkedIn becoming a dating app
⁠Blog Post⁠
beehiiv CEO asking customers to roast the product
⁠Arthur Castillo Post⁠
Marketers needing a GitHub portfolio
⁠Corey Haines Post⁠
⁠Louise de Sadeleer Post⁠
AI testimonial videos
⁠Jon McGreevy Post⁠
Adam Robinson's AI texting experiment
⁠Post 1⁠
⁠Post 2⁠
Email exclamation point rules
⁠Madeleine Work Post⁠
Connect with the hosts: Tim Davidson: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41/⁠ 
Tas Bober: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober/⁠  
 
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Vector: The B2B ad platform built around real buyer intent.
Learn more at ⁠https://www.vector.co/
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This week we talk about:
 
Stripe and Advent's reported $53B bid to buy PayPal, Dentsu's 360i agency getting caught copy-pasting an entire newsletter writer's Substack in their "State of Social" report with zero credit, and Kieran Flanagan's new "Content Taste" AI skill promises to teach LinkedIn creators taste and our special guest is not having it.
 
Plus: the LinkedIn "death spiral" algorithm trend, a rescinded job offer after 15 interviews, and getting laid off while on parental leave.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 - Trailer: Intro
1:47 - Stripe Buys Paypal
6:41 - The LinkedIn "Death Spiral"
11:23 - Offer Rescinded After 15 Interviews
27:31 - 360i Plagiarized Link in Bio
34:40 - MLK Quote as Cold Outreach
38:36 - Laid Off While on Parental Leave
46:34 - Kieran Flanagan's AI taste skill
1:02:58 - Ashley Sava's Writing While Everyone AI's
1:12:41 - Big Creators ask for engagement payments
 
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠
Tas Bober – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠
 
Special thanks to the brand supporting Notorious B2B.
 
Vector: The B2B ad platform built around real buyer intent.
Learn more at ⁠https://www.vector.co/⁠
 
Resources & Sources
 
URGENT ALL HANDS:
⁠Stripe and Advent Bid - $53.4B for Paypal⁠
 
LET'S NOODLE:
The LinkedIn "Death Spiral"
⁠Melissa Rosenthal's Post⁠
 
Offer Rescinded After 15 Interviews
⁠Kyle Lacy's post⁠
 
Plagiarized Link in Bio
⁠Joe Lazer's post⁠
 
BIG PROMPT ENERGY:
Kieran Flanagan built an AI skill to inject "taste" into content
⁠Kieran's Post⁠
 
CLOSED WON:
Ashley Sava's Writing While Everyone AI's⁠ Ashley's Post ⁠
 
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In this episode, we break down the Hubspot data enrichment sharing fiasco - the announcement, the backlash, and the reversal.
 
Then we move on to how Meta is letting AI use your Instagram photos, a move sure to spark privacy concerns for many B2B marketers. It's a bold play that could reshape how we think about content ownership online.
 
Wait, there's more…we also dive into Google Search Console's first major update in years, Stripe's new media ventures, a B2B marketing glossary for newcomers, and a truly epic AI agent saving someone’s sight.
 
If you've got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs it.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 - Trailer: Meta Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Pics in AI Images
3:56 - HubSpot's CRM Data Grab and Full Walk-Back
24:08 - Stripe's Off-Topic Media Play
33:34 - Meta Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Pics in AI Images
41:39 - An AI Agent Saves Someone From Going Blind
45:50 - Google Search Console Adds Social Tracking
50:18 - 37 Years at Microsoft, Still Laid Off
54:42 - A B2B Marketing Glossary for Newcomers
1:02:15 - The AI Bro Who Saves 168 Hours a Week
1:04:21 - If I Was the One on the Empire State Building
 
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠
Tas Bober – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠
 
Special thanks to the brand supporting Notorious B2B.
Vector: The B2B ad platform built around real buyer intent. Learn more at ⁠https://www.vector.co/⁠
 
Resources & Sources
 
URGENT ALL HANDS
HubSpot Topic:⁠Semir Jahic Post ⁠⁠Caitlin Post ⁠⁠Duncan Lennox Post ⁠
 
LET'S NOODLE
Meta Use Instagram Pics
⁠Rebecca Bultsma's Post⁠
 
BIG PROMPT ENERGY
AI Agent Saves Someone From Going Blind
⁠Kate Udalova's Post ⁠
 
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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 OpenAI 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
00:00 - Cold open: Zoom is buying Common Room 01:04 - Welcome back (Tas is on PTO, holiday week) 01:39 - Urgent All Hands 01:42 - Zoom acquires Common Room 03:37 - Anthropic restores Fable 5 access 04:54 - OpenAI delays its IPO to 2027 and blames the weather 07:10 - Let's Noodle: fired over an Elmo meme on Facebook 09:54 - 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 – ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠⁠
Tas Bober – ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠⁠
 
Special thanks to the brands supporting Notorious B2B.
 
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Learn more at ⁠⁠https://www.vector.co/⁠⁠
 
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Tim Davidson unpacks the wild story of Cyber Dive Co-Founder Jeffrey Gottfurcht, now facing federal wire fraud charges after allegedly embezzling $1.5 million from his company. He blew it on a Lamborghini, a diamond ring, and a house for an escort he was seeing. You can't make this stuff up.
 
Wait, there's more… Also hear about using AI for dog branding, a "Claude" impersonator's Slack antics, and LinkedIn's truly awful new mobile UI.
 
If you've got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs it.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 – Trailer: Co-Founder Removed After Embezzlement Leads to Federal Criminal Case
2:53 – Co-Founder Removed After Embezzlement Leads to Federal Criminal Case (full story)
7:47 – Claude Code Got My Google Ads Account Banned
13:06 – Claude Is Gonna Start Asking for Your Passport???
18:35 – LinkedIn's New Mobile UI Is... Trash
23:14 – Using AI to Build a Dog a Personal Brand So He Can Start Paying Rent
25:14 – Declaring Every Writing Rule Dead and Asking if We Are Okay
29:03 – Changed Profile Pic and Name to "Claude" to Spy on Company Secrets in Slack and Got Roasted Instead
 
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠
Tas Bober – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠
Special Guest: Chelsea Castle –⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelseacastle/⁠
 
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This week, Tim and Tas circle back to a massive acquisition, where Salesforce spent billions on Intercom, yet for two years claimed they already had the same capabilities with their own "Agentforce."
 
Wait, there's more… We're also diving into the official US ban of Anthropic's Fable 5 and what Anthropic's statement is REALLY trying to say, and SpaceX buying Cursor for $60B.
 
As always, we balance out the serious with the fun with a series of terrible outreach and some funny posts in our Closed Won segment.
 
If you've got a take, drop it in the comments or send this to someone who needs it.
 
Timestamp:
0:00 – Trailer: Salesforce Bought Intercom for $3.68B, Proving Agentforce Was a Complete Joke
2:39 – Fable Is Banned in the US
9:52 – SpaceX Officially Going to Acquire Cursor for $60B
12:25 – Salesforce Bought Intercom for $3.68B (full discussion)
16:08 – Terrible Outreach
27:40 – Someone Built an Ad Marketplace on the Claude Code Loading Spinner
30:48 – AI Founders Pivoting From "AI Replaced My Team" to "Culture Is Our Moat"
32:06 – Typos and AI Tells: Roxana Irimia & Karen Kluss on Writing Like a Human
34:46 – Ask Mambo No. 5 Instead of Fable 5
 
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson – ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41⁠
Tas Bober –⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober⁠
 
Special thanks to the brands supporting Notorious B2B.
 
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Learn more at ⁠https://www.vector.co/⁠
 
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