The Notorious B2B Show’s Podcast

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Tim Davidson –   https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41  

Tas Bober –  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober  

 

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This week on Notorious B2B, we break down the Delve story—the SOC 2 compliance startup that wasn’t actually doing compliance. What looked legit on the surface quickly turned into something bigger: a wake-up call for how...

Connect with the hosts:

 

Tim Davidson –   https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41  

Tas Bober –  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober  

 

Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet’s wildest B2B moments.

We break down Moltbook, the AI-powered social network full of fake posts that still went viral (and somehow got acquired by Meta), and why they decided on this play. 

Then we hit the week’s chaos: ChatGPT citing Reddit, ...

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Tim Davidson – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41

Tas Bober – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober

Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet’s wildest B2B moments.

Anthropic reportedly walked away from a $200M government AI contract… and OpenAI stepped in to take the deal.

 

In this episode, Tim and Tas break down why Anthropic might have rejected the contract and what it signals about AI ...

Connect with the hosts:

 

Tim Davidson – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41

Tas Bober – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober

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This week on Notorious B2B we break down the biggest story in AI: OpenClaw’s creator joining OpenAI. The tool exploded across LinkedIn and X, but now the founder has been acqui-hired by OpenAI. Is this the next step for the ...

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41 Tas Bober – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober/

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This week, Notorious B2B goes live for the first time ever at Above the Fold in Fort Lauderdale. 

Inside the episode: B2B has officially hit the mainstream. We teardown the best (and worst) B2B Superbowl ads in the Super Bowl t...

*Connect with the hosts:* *Tim Davidson* – http://linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41 *Tas Bober* – http://linkedin.com/in/tasbober *Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet’s wildest B2B moments.* _________________________________________________________________________________

 

This week: Hootsuite’s CEO responds to backlash over its ICE contract (and somehow says nothing), Anthropic takes a direct shot at ChatGPT with a S...

Connect with the hosts: Tim Davidson – http://linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41 Tas Bober – http://linkedin.com/in/tasbober Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet’s wildest B2B moments.

We cover the reality behind the viral Clawdbot AI assistant, Hootsuite’s ICE contract backlash, Amazon’s latest corporate layoffs, and the rise of lazy LinkedIn comment-gating. For B2B marketers, SaaS teams, and AI practitioners, this epis...

Connect with the hosts:

Tim Davidson –   / tadavidson41    

Tas Bober –   / tasbober    

Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet’s wildest B2B moments.

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OpenAI is testing ads inside ChatGPT. Salesforce may be teaming up with MrBeast for a Super Bowl ad. Attribution is back. Gated content is under fire. And one brutal PTO vs FMLA story reminds us why corporate policies still matter.

 

This episode breaks down what all...

Cvent just acquired ON24. You're probably thinking, "Okay, another B2B acquisition, who cares?" But they bought Goldcast just 2 weeks earlier. 

In this episode, we break down:

• Why Cvent is suddenly on a buying spree
• OpenAI is speculated to purchase Pinterest 
• LinkedIn took down another data provider, Artisan, but this one has a happy ending.
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LinkedIn dropped its Year in Review - their version of Spotify’s wildly popular “Wrapped” where they give you fun statistics about your listening history on the platform. 

 

LinkedIn’s version was exciting at first but then everyone started comparing notes. And the math does not math.

So naturally, this is how we’re kicking off the New Year.

Welcome to the first episode of Notorious B2B this year. And yes, we’re starting exactly wh...

This episode is a full recap of Chris Walker’s B2B era. From the early Refine Labs days, to Dark Social, to leaving his own company, to launching Encoded and talking about “frequency.”

We cover:

• How Chris Walker rose to become one of the most influential voices in B2B marketing
• The Dark Social era and why it resonated so hard
• Why he left Ref...

In this 2025 B2B recap episode, we explain the Astronomer CEO scandal and why it became such a defining moment for the industry.

We cover:

• How and what happened 
• The company’s response and whether it was brilliant or not 
• And what this says about leadership and accountability in B2B

 

Catch up here. 

 

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Welcome back to part 2 of our miniseries where we recap the full-blown B2B SaaS James Bond tale of 2025: the Rippling vs Deel rivalry and the accusations of corporate espionage. 

 

Here’s what actually went down:

 

• Rippling sues Deel over alleged corporate espionage
• A fake Slack “honeypot” used to catch a spy
• A former Rippling employee allegedly recruited while still employed
• Payments involving cash and cryptocurrency
• A c...

We are ending the year with a miniseries recapping B2B’s biggest stories in 2025 starting with one of the most talked-about B2B moments this year - LinkedIn removing company pages for major data providers like Apollo, Seamless AI, and other lesser-known rivals.

 

The move signaled something bigger:

⦁    A clear stance against tools scraping LinkedIn personal data

⦁    A warning shot to the B2B data ecosystem

⦁    And a reminder of ...

In this episode, we break down a viral xAI hackathon project that lets AI dynamically insert product placements into TV shows and movies. Not ads. Not sponsorships. Actual objects inside the scene.   This goes for new shows AND old.  Coffee cups in Suits replaced with Coca-Cola cans. Headphones in Friends swapped for modern brands. Clickable product placements inside Netflix-style interfaces. Tas loved it but Tim is foreseeing a...

It's Tas' birthday but she has a present for you - results from a LinkedIn demographic change...and the numbers are messy. We break down the “straight white male” profile switch, the 16–18x impression spike ChatGPT claims, why Tim won’t trust a single line without a Google Sheet, and whether the lift came from demographics, better content, or one 85K-view outlier post boosted by Chris Walker.

 

Then we zoom out into the wide...

Adobe just dropped $1.9B to acquire SEMRush, and we're already bracing for impact. In Episode 36, we speculate what a big acquisition means if history has told us anything. We cover it all:

• First, we need your feedback to make this show even more notorious 
• Do LinkedIn’s demographic settings impact your impressions?
• Cloudflare’s 4th outage of the year that took down 25% of the internet 
• Cursor’s 12X jump and the real drama be...

This week on Notorious B2B, we break down one of the wildest SaaS origin stories out there. Fireflies AI - It's in the name but there was no AI (at least in the beginning). Just the founder sitting in calls and taking notes by hand. The purest form of validation: do the work manually until you know people want it. We also get into: • Duolingo pulling the salary range on their social role and the internet noticing instantly •...

This week, Clark Barron, the King of B2B call outs, set his sights on Warmly, a company that helps sales teams identify anonymous website visitors.   He called them out for allegedly deanonymizing website visitors without their consent (with logs and receipts). But that’s not the core of the drama. Warmly’s CEO responds and…it’s not what you think. Watch to see how the thread unfolded. We also cover:

• Clay’s marketing play...