Tyler Torro And Paul Wagner Exclusive May 2026

They want to own the game.

Torro responded indirectly in a private Discord message obtained by our team: “People said the same thing about Substack. About Patreon. About the entire internet. We’re not building for skeptics. We’re building for the obsessed.”

Wagner, ever the showman, posted a single word on his newly restored Instagram account yesterday: “Soon.” The image attached? A photograph of two chess kings, side by side, both knocked over. As we publish this Tyler Torro and Paul Wagner exclusive , the two men are reportedly in Iceland scouting a location for the second season of Zero Formula . Their partnership remains unshaken. Their first live show sold out in eleven minutes—before anyone had seen a single clip. tyler torro and paul wagner exclusive

Today, we break our silence.

If IBT succeeds, expect a flood of imitators. If it fails, it will be a case study in ambition outrunning infrastructure. But either way, the rules have changed. Not everyone is celebrating the Tyler Torro and Paul Wagner exclusive . Marketing veteran Denise Harlow called the Aether model “a Ponzi scheme with better lighting.” A prominent YouTuber who asked to remain anonymous said: “They’re solving a problem nobody had. Who wants to own three percent of a podcast episode?” They want to own the game

IBT is described as a hybrid format—part documentary, part interactive workshop, part live event. The format places two contrasting minds (Torro’s analytical deep-dive vs. Wagner’s high-energy systems thinking) in a pressure chamber environment, where they must solve real-time business problems submitted by paying subscribers. The first season, already filmed under total secrecy, is titled Zero Formula .

Our team spent three weeks tracing leads. We interviewed former collaborators, analyzed metadata from deleted videos, and finally—through a mutual contact in the production world—secured a conversation with someone present during what is now being called "The Summit." Here is the verified information. About the entire internet

They are not launching a course. They are not launching a podcast network. According to our source, Torro and Wagner have co-founded a new content category entirely: Immersive Business Theater (IBT) .