2026 Founding Sponsorship

What this could become,
and who we'd build it with.

Pale Blue Nexus is a long-form interview show at the intersection of AI, Bitcoin, space, physics, and the future of work, hosted by Yohann Calpu. We are choosing three partners for Season 2.

~6.23K
YouTube subscribers
80K
Views & listens
Across all channels and growing
4M+
Reach Inbound
Austin Armstrong, featured guest
The growth isn't the story. The story is that authenticity still compounds. The audience is starving for unhurried conversation.
Why this season is the inflection
HOW THIS SHOW GETS ITS GUESTS

A cold email in 2009. A guest in 2026.

In 2009, Yohann sent a cold email to Jim Rogers. Co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros. 4,200% returns in a single decade. One of the most sought-after investors alive.

Rogers replied. Most people would have asked for something immediately. Yohann didn't. He kept the conversation going. Year after year. No pitch. No ask. Just genuine connection maintained over time.

Seventeen years later, Jim sat down as the first guest on Pale Blue Nexus. The episode is live.

No agency would have kept that thread alive for 17 years. Most wouldn't last 17 weeks. This is the difference between transactional media and relationship-driven media. Pale Blue Nexus is the second kind.

The relationship is the asset. The show is the excuse to have it.
Recent on Pale Blue Nexus

Recent on Pale Blue Nexus.

A few of the guests already on the show. The momentum is real.

Nikola Borisov
Nikola Borisov
CO-FOUNDER · CEO, DEEPINFRA
Why inference, not training, will define the AI economy.
Nectarios Economakis
Nectarios Economakis
PARTNER · AMIRAL VENTURES
Building Canada's next technology flagships.
Eliza Blank
Eliza Blank
CEO · THE FARMLINK PROJECT
No good food goes to waste. Five hundred million pounds rescued, fifty states.
WHERE THIS GOES

A three-year arc.

What founding partners are actually buying into.

YEAR ONE.

We prove the format. Three founding partners build alongside the show while it is still finding its sharpest edge. Episodes shape themselves around real conversations, not performance. Audience compounds because nothing about it is engineered.

YEAR TWO.

Series formats live inside the show. "The [Brand] Conversations" stops being a sponsor perk and becomes how PBN is structured. Founding partners hold their name on the segment that fits their world. The show stops being one show and starts being a network of seasons.

YEAR THREE.

PBN becomes the place enterprise founders in AI infrastructure, biotech, and capital markets reach for first when they have something to say. Founding partners are the names on the masthead of that.

The partners who shape this with us in Year One get the easiest seat at every table that comes after.

The Conversations

Listen to what's resonating.

Two clips from recent episodes. The kind of moments your brand gets associated with when you're integrated into the show, not interrupting it.

Episode 01 · 36:07
"Do what you love."
Jim Rogers · Investor · 17 years to book
Episode 02 · Featured Clip
"Sales is dead. Podcasts are how trust gets built now."
Jack Couch · Founder · Distribution operator
THIS IS NOT A FIRST ATTEMPT

Nine years in the room.

Five shows. Three eras. One through line. PBN is where it all converges.

2017 — 2018
EOS Go
PODCAST + LIVE STREAMS
16K live viewers on launch. Interview with Dan Larimer at Block.one HQ (now Bullish, BLSH on NYSE).
2020 — 2023
NFT Hype
FIRST NFT PODCAST EVER
500k+ views. Interviewed Yat Siu, who went on to lead CryptoSlam's $9M seed round.
2021 — 2022
CryptoSlam Clubhouse
LIVE PANELS, MARK CUBAN BACKED
Ran live rooms for CryptoSlam during the NFT boom. $2M in deals closed in the process.
2026 — Present
Pale Blue Nexus
FLAGSHIP, AI + SPACE + PHYSICS
Jim Rogers as first guest. 6.25K subscribers and 74K views across all channels and growing.
We showed up early to every major media wave. PBN is where all of it lands.
The Roster

Who's at the mic.

A relationship-led booking model produces a guest list with weight. Below: who's already on the feed, who's coming, and the depth of pursuit behind each conversation.

Aired
Jim Rogers
Legendary investor. 17 years from first cold email to recording. The episode that broke the channel open.
Aired
Jack Couch
Founder and distribution operator. The "sales is dead" conversation that's still circulating.
Confirmed
Nikola Borisov
Co-Founder & CEO, DeepInfra. $107M Series B. Backed by NVIDIA, Felicis, Samsung Next.
In Booking
Season 2 Lineup
A pipeline of operators, founders, and investors at the frontier of AI, space, and emerging tech. Founding sponsors get the list early.
Reserved
Your Founder
Title and Main sponsors get a guest seat. Your story, told in long form, on a feed that's actively growing.
Pursued
The Long List
Active multi-year relationships with operators, scientists, and investors. Bookings happen on PBN time, not media-buy time.
The Audience

Not broad reach.
The right reach.

PBN listeners aren't passive consumers. They're decision-makers. Your brand message lands in front of an audience that builds, funds, and operates at the frontier.

Founders & Operators

Early- and growth-stage founders building in AI, deep tech, and emerging platforms.

Investors

Angels, VCs, and family office allocators tuned in to spot what's next.

Senior Operators

Technical leaders and execs at the cutting edge of AI, space, and emerging platforms.

6.23K
YouTube subscribers
80K
Views & listens across all channels and growing
9 yr
Show-building experience across 5 shows
8
Distribution channels: YT, Apple, Spotify, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Shorts, newsletter
What Sponsorship Actually Buys

Most podcast sponsorships sell you exposure.
This one sells you a system.

Three things every founding sponsor walks away with, and the mechanics behind each one. Volume and access differ between Title and Main. The underlying engine is the same.

01 · Brand

Integration, not interruption

Yohann talks about you, in his own voice, as part of the show's natural flow. Your team gets a guest seat. Clips and newsletter mentions extend reach across eight distribution channels.

How it works
Host-read placements, never scripted ad copy. Logo on episode pages and end cards. Co-branded clips across YouTube Shorts, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X.
02 · Pipeline

Warm introductions from the host.

Sponsorship comes with something money cannot buy on its own: Yohann personally opening doors. Not cold outreach. Not a contracted SDR working a list. Direct, warm introductions from the host to people in his network who fit the sponsor's ICP.

How it works
Yohann meets with the sponsor's sales leadership to understand the target. He then makes warm introductions and referrals from his network into the sponsor's pipeline. Title gets dedicated focus. Main gets shared access. Compensation structure agreed in contract, payable only on closed deals.
03 · Network

The show as a closing tool

Use PBN as a mid-funnel asset for your own pipeline. Invite stuck deals or hot prospects onto the show as featured guests. Ego activates, trust deepens, and the conversation stops being a pitch.

How it works
You name the prospects. PBN extends the guest invitation under your relationship. Title sponsors get four invitations per year plus seats at The Table, Aloomii's invite-only Toronto dinner. Main sponsors get two invitations.

“We don’t sell you access to an industry. We sell you association with a host whose audience trusts him across industries.”

WHY THE PRICE IS WHAT IT IS

Media isn't content. Media is infrastructure.

“TBPN is my favorite tech show. We want them to keep that going and for them to do what they do so well.”
SAM ALTMAN · ON OPENAI ACQUIRING TBPN, APRIL 2026

OpenAI did not buy TBPN for the audience size. They bought it for the relationships every episode created. Zuckerberg. Nadella. Altman. They came on the show because the hosts had built genuine connections over years.

TBPN started from a text message. Eighteen months later, $30M in annual revenue and an acquisition by the most valuable AI company in the world.

The show is the excuse to have the conversation. The conversation builds the relationship. The relationship is the asset. That is what a Pale Blue Nexus sponsorship buys.

HOW YOUR SPONSORSHIP COMPOUNDS

One conversation. Thirty pieces of content.

Velocity is the AI multiplication engine that runs inside every PBN episode. Your integration does not air once and disappear. It compounds across every clip, every platform, every week.

01
Clip discovery.
Agents watch every recording and identify high-engagement moments using audio energy, chat signal, and topic shifts. The best ten seconds in your episode get found before any human edit.
02
Hook engineering.
Platform-specific opening lines, captions, and titles, tuned to TikTok, Shorts, Reels, X, and LinkedIn. Your category gets its own voice on every platform.
03
Distribution and scheduling.
Posts sequenced over weeks, scheduled at optimal times per platform, killed if they underperform. Your association keeps working long after the episode drops.
04
Performance loop.
Underperformers get killed. Hits get amplified. Weekly intel brief on what is working and why. You see exactly where your brand is compounding.
SHIPS TO · TIKTOK · YOUTUBE SHORTS · X · LINKEDIN · SPOTIFY CLIPS · APPLE PODCASTS · YOUTUBE LONG
2026 Founding Sponsorship

Three seats. One season.

Same four pillars at both tiers: Brand, Pipeline, Network, Access. Title gets more, alone, and closer to the operation. Main gets a real, integrated presence at a lower entry point.

1 Slot · Held by Huckabuy
Current Title Partner
The partner whose name lives inside the show.

Title is one seat per season. The brand that holds it is not a sponsor in the traditional sense. They are the voice that runs alongside the show across every episode, every clip, every newsletter. Their categories of conversation become a recurring series. Their CEO joins the host seat once a year. Their network gets warm introductions from Yohann. The show is unmistakably their company's home in long-form.

$2,000 / month · $24,000/yr · 1 slot
Brand Integration
  • "Presented by" lockup on every episode. Opening animation, thumbnail, end card.
  • 60 to 90 second custom host-read at the top of every episode
  • Sole "The Last 20%" LinkedIn newsletter sponsor for the season
  • Co-branded social clips across YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, X
Sales Pipeline · BD
  • Warm introductions from Yohann's network, prioritized for your ICP. Direct doors opened by the host.
  • Pay-on-close compensation structure. Agreed in contract, payable only on closed deals.
  • Dedicated focus for Title sponsors. Shared access for Main sponsors.
CEO Network · Mid-Funnel Tool
  • 4 prospect guest invitations per year. Extend a PBN guest seat to your stuck deals or hot prospects.
  • 4 seats per year at The Table (Aloomii's invite-only Toronto dinner, twelve operators per night, dates TBD)
  • 4 of your own founder, exec, or portfolio guest spots on the show per year
Editorial Partnership

Three things only one sponsor can have.

  • "The [Your Brand] Conversations." A recurring 3 to 4 episode thematic series within PBN per season, with the sponsor's name in the segment title. The show appears designed for the sponsor's audience.
  • One co-host episode per year. Your CEO or designated exec joins Yohann at the host seat, helping conduct the conversation rather than appearing as a guest. The deepest possible trust transfer the show can offer.
  • 4 personal warm introductions per year from Yohann. Specific named people from his network, chosen jointly with you against your actual BD targets. His social capital, on the table.
Strategic Access
  • Quarterly strategy session with Yohann and the PBN team. Guest pipeline, content alignment, intros.
  • First-look on the upcoming guest list for alignment opportunities
  • Founding partners shape Season 2 with us. Pricing held for Season 3 renewal, right of first refusal.
Start a conversation.
1 Slot Available
Current Main Partner
The partners building the audience with us.

Two seats per season. Main partners are not background advertisers. They sit alongside the show as it scales, with their own midroll voice, episode pages, and clip credits. The earlier they join, the more their name compounds with the audience.

$1,500 / month · $18,000/yr · 2 slots
Brand Integration
  • "Brought to you by" lockup on every episode
  • 30-second host-read midroll on every episode
  • Logo placement on episode pages, show notes, and end card
  • Newsletter mentions across the season's editions
  • Brand mentions on top-performing social clips
Sales Pipeline · BD
  • Shared access to warm introductions. Referrals from Yohann's network when alignment exists.
  • Pay-on-close compensation structure. Same terms as Title, no dedicated focus.
CEO Network · Mid-Funnel Tool
  • 2 prospect guest invitations per year for stuck deals or strategic prospects
  • 1 of your own founder or exec guest spot on the show
Strategic Access
  • Quarterly check-in with the PBN team
  • LinkedIn co-promotion from Yohann's account on episode releases
  • Founding partners shape Season 2 with us. Pricing held for Season 3 renewal, right of first refusal.
Talk to us.
Season 2 partner conversations are open. Pitch deck and references available on request.
Why Pale Blue Nexus

Three reasons this works.

01 / Trust

Relationship-led, not ad-inventory-led

The Jim Rogers interview took 17 years from first cold email to recording. That's the depth of relationship this show is built on, and the credibility your brand borrows when you sit inside it.

02 / Format

Host-read, never scripted

Yohann doesn't read your ad copy. He talks about you, in his own voice, as part of the show's natural flow. Listeners don't skip what doesn't sound like an ad.

03 / Timing

You're early on a curve that's bending up

6.25K subscribers and 74K views across all channels is the inflection, not the ceiling. Guests like Austin Armstrong (4M+ followers) are already on the show. Founding rates exist because we're early. They won't return next season.

Start the Conversation

Sit at the table before the room fills.

Pale Blue Nexus isn't a media buy. It's a relationship with a high-trust, fast-growing audience that's already paying attention to the show, and will pay attention to whoever's standing next to it. Three founding seats. We answer every email personally.

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