The Notorious B2B Show’s Podcast

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 we...

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. 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 contra...

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.   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...

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. 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 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.* _________________________________________________________________________________   This week: Hootsuite’s CEO responds to backlash over its ICE contract (and somehow says nothing), Anthropic takes...

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...

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

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. Microsoft’s AI Irony: AI writes 30% of their code, yet W...

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....

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 Refine Labs and what he’s up to now  Why the backlash was in...

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.    --- Connect with the hosts: Tim Davidson – linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41 Tas Bober – linkedin.com...

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 ca...

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 dat...

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...

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.   Th...

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 1...

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 i...

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 cov...

Grammarly is no longer Grammarly. It’s now Superhuman. A billion-dollar brand name… gone overnight. In this episode of Notorious B2B, we dig into why a company with insane brand equity would scrap its own name — and what it says about B2B’s obsession with “category creation” and AI positioning. We also cover: • The $500 LinkedIn influencer experiment that turned into a fake-engagement horror story...

Ramp somehow made one of the most boring SaaS products on Earth go viral. They locked Kevin Malone from The Office in a glass box for his “first day as CFO,” live from Flatiron in NYC. Receipts flying, weddings happening, TikTok stars crashing the scene, and hundreds of people gathering to watch. They made some noise and people showed up. In this episode of Notorious B2B, we break down how Ramp pu...

A startup called Virio posted a $1.5M job for “Head of CEO Content.”  LinkedIn lost its mind. Turns out, the job wasn’t real.  It was a PR stunt and one of the smartest we’ve seen in B2B.    Some other things we cover this episode:  • How a “default to AI” note from a CEO backfired  • Deloitte’s 440k report that was written by AI  • B2B’s demo process that remains broken    If you’ve ever cringed...

Episode 30 of Notorious B2B is pure B2B madness. Tas and Tim dive into the most chaotic marketing stories of the week: Neil Patel’s email that tells you to gate everything and also nothing Accenture laying off 11,000 people for “AI reasons” that make zero sense Comment gating fails on LinkedIn that prove marketers have lost the plot AI startup "Friend" has their million-dollar ads vandalized in NY...

In Episode 29 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas made it through a really beefy docket filled with AI drama, weird Linkedin automations, and more layoffs because of “AI”. First up: Little Post Manager’s bizarre tactic of tagging creators in AI-generated one-liners that make zero sense (including Tas “ditching lectures”). Then it’s onto Fiverr, who just laid off 30% of its workforce in the name of AI an...

In Episode 28 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas are back on Zoom (boo) after Drive to debrief on all the B2B chaos (sort of) from event drama to brand growth that won’t quit. They kick things off by announcing their brand-new podcast The Marketer’s Exit, sharing why they launched it and what listeners can expect. Then it’s onto Drive highlights: the first-ever Notorious B2B live show, Harry Dry’s mast...

In Episode 27 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas record their first in-person episode at Drive by Exit Five thanks to Dom Odoguardi (ask him why he quit his job), and the docket’s packed with interesting takes, data breaches, and some AI-fueled controversy. First up: Neil Patel makes headlines at Inbound by refusing to share how he’s actually using Reddit for LLM visibility, literally answering “no com...