This Week in Startups
by Jason Calacanis
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Jason: Jensen Huang will be back at Nvidia within 12 months | E2363
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Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world's greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.
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- Jason: Jensen Huang will be back at Nvidia within 12 months | E2363 · 1 h 1 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: https://paypal.com/business G2i: https://g2i.co/twist Deel: https://deel.com/twist Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Today’s…
- Running Google’s Gemma on Satlyt’s orbital AI (w/ CEO Rama Afullo) · 34 minThe TWiST AI Basics series is made possible by Google for Startups! Today’s show: Rama Afullo pitched orbital data centers while working at both Google and SpaceX. At the…
- Founders Are Now Sending VCs a File Written for AI · 1 h 21 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo: https://Odoo.com/twist Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Stripe: https://stripe.com/startups Athena…
- Can Nvidia Survive the Jensen Huang Spy Scandal? | E2361 · 1 h 19 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Stripe: https://stripe.com/startups Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Upwork…
- Did the Midterms Destroy All Hope for Data Centers? | E2360 · 1 h 8 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo: https://Odoo.com/twist Sentry: https://sentry.io/twist Stripe: https://stripe.com/startups Plaud: https://Plaud.ai/twist…
- Why a Do-Nothing Congress could be great for markets | E2359 · 1 h 24 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Every: https://every.io/ Vanta: https://www.vanta.com/twist G2i: https://g2i.co/twist Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Fintrx…
- Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron is 90% sure we live in a simulation | E2358 · 1 h 24 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Paper: https://getpaper.ai/twist G2i: https://G2i.co/twist Northwest Registered Agent…
- Binance Hacked $6.3B Stolen, DoorDash Buys Instacart For $17B, Jake Newfield from Hermetiq, + More! · 1 h 10 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Stripe: https://stripe.com/startups Rippling: https://rippling.ai/twist Northwest Registered Agent…
- Is AI the new cigarettes? Our VC panel digs into Anthropic’s S-1 | E2356 · 1 h 12 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: https://paypal.com/business The Conservation Fund: https://www.conservationfund.org/ Hostinger: https://hostinger.com/twist…
- Pregame Your Launch Before Your App Exists (w/ Amanda Bradford) | E2355 · 57 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist G2i: https://g2i.co/twist Rippling: https://rippling.ai/twist Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Today’s…
- OpenAI’s $1.25T Raise, Starlink Mobile & Zuck’s Tax Deal | EP 2354 · 1 h 33 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud - https://plaud.ai/twist Sentry - https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield - https://lightfield.app Rippling…
- We asked 3 VCs: would you invest in Elizabeth Holmes’ next startup? | E2353 · 1 h 41 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean - Head to https://do.co/twist to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud today — and cut your AI workload costs…
- Anthropic Gives Away 5% of Its Shares, Clone’s Muscle Robot, ElevenLabs Steals Podcaster's Voice · 1 h 34 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Vanta…
- Flying Cars, OpenAI Spies, Why AI Isn’t Sticking (Superhuman CEO) · 1 h 33 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Lightfield: https://lightfield.app Every.io: https://every.io/ PayPal: https://paypal.com/business Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist…
- The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI · 1 h 0 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Paper: https://getpaper.ai/twist Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Odoo: https://Odoo.com/twist Today’s show: Misha Laskin of…
- The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349 · 1 h 20 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain NetSuite…
- Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato · 1 h 24 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Lightfield: https://lightfield.app Rippling: https://Rippling.ai/twist Upwork: https://upwork.com Today’s show: AssetHub built an…
- What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347 · 1 h 18 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Northwest Registered Agent…
- Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346 · 1 h 10 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta: https://www.vanta.com/twist DigitalOcean: https://do.co/twist Sentry: https://sentry.io/twist Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist…
- Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345 · 53 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Every.io: https://every.io/ Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Odoo…
- Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344 · 1 h 18 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist CLA: https://www.claconnect.com/withyou Sentry: https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield…
- Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338 · 41 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Every.io: https://every.io/ Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Sentry…
- The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy · 50 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: https://paypal.com/business Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Odoo…
- A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342 · 1 h 25 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Lightfield: https://lightfield.app Paper: https://getpaper.ai/twist The Conservation Fund: https://conservationfund.org/ Plaud…
- VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341 · 1 h 27 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Rippling…
- Elon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340 · 1 h 9 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta: https://www.vanta.com/twist DigitalOcean: https://do.co/twist Lightfield: https://lightfield.app Plaud…
- Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339 · 1 h 33 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Paypal: https://paypal.com/business Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist…
- 90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics · 19 minThe TWiST AI Basics series is made possible by Google for Startups! Build context-aware AI workflows using DeepMind models and orchestration tools with Google for Startups' new…
- Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337 · 1 h 11 min · Episode 2337This Week In Startups is made possible by: Quo: http://quo.com/TWiST The Conservation Fund: https://conservationfund.org CLA: https://www.claconnect.com/withyou Today's show…
- The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 · 1 h 12 min · Episode 2336This Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean: https://do.co/twist Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Upwork: https://upwork.com Today's show: The Pentagon is reportedly…
- Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play · 23 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Wilson Sonsini: https://www.wsgr.com/en/ Today's show: One of YouTube's three co-founders left for grad school and walked away with a…
- Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335 · 1 h 21 min · Episode 2335This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain NetSuite: https://www.netsuite.ai/twist Vanta…
- Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334 · 58 min · Episode 2334This Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Rippling…
- Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics · 18 minThis Week In Startups is made possible by: Wilson Sonsini Today's show: Spinouts are everywhere right now, and most founders get the cap table wrong. Jason sits down with Becki…
- VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 2333VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333 This Week In Startups is made possible by: partner 1 - link partner 2 - link partner 3 - link Today's show: Are…
- Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332 · 1 h 6 min · Episode 2332This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent: https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain CLA: https://www.claconnect.com/withyou Rippling…
- Breaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331 · 1 h 48 min · Episode 2331This Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean: https://do.co/twist Every.io: https://every.io PayPal: https://paypal.com/business Today's show: *Nvidia agreed to…
- Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330 · 1 h 31 min · Episode 2330This Week In Startups is made possible by: Lightfield: https://lightfield.app Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Rippling…
- You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics · 25 minToday's show: Can a founder actually fire a board member? Short answer: almost never. And the reason why may surprise a lot of founders. On this edition of Legal Basics, Wilson…
- China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 2329This Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Quo: https://quo.com/TWiST Conservation Fund: https://conservationfund.org/ how old a movie has to be…
- Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328 · 1 h 9 min · Episode 2328This Week In Startups is made possible by: Superhuman: https://superhuman.com Sentry: https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield: https://lightfield.app Today's show: Jason's been…
- Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics · 21 minThe TWiST AI Basics series is made possible by Google Cloud! Build context-aware AI workflows using DeepMind models and orchestration tools with Google for Startups' new Startup…
- Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327 · 54 min · Episode 2327This Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta: https://www.vanta.com/twist Agree: https://agree.com YSecurity: https://ysecurity.io/TWIST Today's show: Frontier AI models…
- Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326 · 1 h 24 min · Episode 2326This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent: https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist DigitalOcean: https://do.co/twist Odoo…
- What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 2325This Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal Open https://paypal.launch.co CLA https://claconnect.com/withyou Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's show: *Anthropic is likely…
- These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns · 1 h 3 min · Episode 2324These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns This Week In Startups is made possible by: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/twist Northwest Registered Agent…
- Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323 · 1 h 20 min · Episode 2323This Week In Startups is made possible by: Every.io https://every.io NetSuite https://NetSuite.ai/TWIST YSecurity https://YSecurity.io/TWIST Today's show: *Meta chief Mark…
- How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322 · 1 h 18 min · Episode 2322This Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean https://do.co/twist Sentry https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield https://lightfield.app Today's show: A hedge fund just blew…
- Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321 · 1 h 12 min · Episode 2321This Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta https://www.vanta.com/twist Agree https://agree.com Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's show: *Airtable just sold for $2.25…
- How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320 · 1 h 2 min · Episode 2320This Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Quo https://quo.com/TWiST Northwest Registered Agent https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist Today's…







