This Week in Startups
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This Week in Startups
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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Disney and OpenAI sign landmark deal… and we saw it coming! | E2223
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“The best founders find a way to make it happen”: VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David Clark | E2222
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FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221
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What’s REALLY going on with those “ads” in ChatGPT | E2220
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Netflix buys WB + why Jason should run Disney | E2219
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Getting past the “Cardinal Sins of Delegating” with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218
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Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217
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Is $MSTR over? Jason takes his victory lap. | E2216
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SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215
Register here to join Founder University Japan’s kickoff! 👉🏻 https://luma.com/cm0x90mkToday’s show: On TWiST, Alex is chatting with Neubird CEO Gou...
Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214
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The team from Familify had...
Jason predicts a “major M&A moment” in the next six months! | E2213
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Today’s show:
Google and Meta had their...
Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212
Today’s show:
The race for more compute gets all the headlines, but Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch tells us the REAL danger is running out of data...
AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211
AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211
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Archer buys an airport, Ramp’s huge raise, RIP KitKat, Bezos returns to the C-Suite, and more | E2210
*Are we finally reaching Peak eVTOL? Jason and Alex on Joby’s big Abu Dhabi moves and Archer’s purchase of LA’s Hawthorne Airport.
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Stop ghosting your friends with Nox’s RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209
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Nox’s new app RPLY reminds you to tex...
Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208
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Just getting our stuff into orbit isn’t enough… Orbital Oper...
Inside Harvey AI’s $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207
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Find out why AI is perfectly suited to legal task...
IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206
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*Three of our favorite TWiST 500 startups...
It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s REGENT’s Seafarer | E2205
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*The key to avoiding long airport delays? Low-alt...
Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204
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*On TWiST, Jason welcomes an all-star VC panel —...
Sending datacenters into orbit | E2203
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*Starcloud has starte...
What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202
What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | EXXX
*Polymarket’s sharps are already placing bets on when ChatGPT maker OpenAI will go public...
Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201
Today’s show:
*Why rebrand an app with 40 million daily active users?
On TWiST, Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra swings by to explain why he...
iPhone Air is “inspiring,” and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200
Today’s show:
Jason’s been skeptical on Apple lately, but he’s BLOWN AWAY by his new iPhone Air.Hear why JCal thinks Cupertino’s l...
Jason Unpacks Sequoia’s New Funds"| E2199
Today’s show:
Australia has accused Microsoft of employing a dark pattern… Hear why Jason says these kinds of sneaky tactics aren’t usually wort...
If you’re not working 9-9-6, are you working hard enough? | E2198
Today’s show:
*Working from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week, might seem like TOO INTENSE a commitment for some, but Jason argues that elite performa...
Amazon’s “Age of Efficiency,” LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197
Today’s show:
*Amazon’s dropping a LOT of employees for AI and robots… are Jason’s darkest predictions coming true?
Legendary investor Ela...
Magic School uses AI to help kids learn, not cheat | E2196
Are AI tools in the classroom just time-savers, or can they have genuine educational value?In a must-watch TWiST 500 interview, Alex chats with Magic...
Just how frothy is the AI Bubble anyway? | E2195
Today’s show: *Is the AI bubble going to POP? And if so, how much of our economy is it going to take down with it?On a new TWiST, Jason, Alex, and Lon...
Deel’s growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great “momentum is moat” debate | E2194
Deel’s growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great “momentum is moat” debate | EXXX
Today’s show:
*Deel’s growing...
Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193
Today’s show:
*On a very special TWiST, Jason’s joined by “one of the greatest investors in in the history of VC,” Steve Jurvetson of Future Ven...
What Ramp’s data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192
Today’s show:
*Eric Glyman of Ramp joins us to share the fintech unicorn’s growth secrets AND their Lab full of research data.
On TWiST, J...
Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191
Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191
Today’s show:
Figure’s butler-bot could be clea...
Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190
Today’s show:
*Zach Dell of Base Power joins us at the top of today’s show to talk about building batteries in Austin, that $1 billion investmen...
We’re Hiring! Join the This Week in Startups Team
Everything’s going great here at This Week in Startups — and we’re expanding! As we launch a brand new podcast next year, we’re looking to bring on tw...
OpenAI’s latest “bizarre” mega-deal, datacenters in space, previewing Tesla’s big announcement and more | E2189
Today’s show:
*How many weirdly circular mega-deals is OpenAI going to sign this year?
On a new TWiST, Jason and Alex consider OpenAI’s la...
Sora app review, Perplexity’s Comet is FREE, and which AI tools reign supreme? | E2188
Today’s show:
Is Sora not just a copyright-killer but a TikTok-killer? Hear our review!
The “This Week in Startups” team has...
Sora 2, Tilly Norwood, and the New Slop Era | E2187
Today’s show:
Sora 2 will generate a video of whatever you like and respects no IP (unless they opt out)
On a brand new TWiST, Jason and A...
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186
Today’s show:
How do you get investors excited about jets when they’re hyper-focused on new AI tools?
In a fresh TWiST 500 interview, Alex...
Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185
Today’s show:
Friend’s new AI pendant just wants to be your new pal. So why do New Yorkers hate them?
On a brand-new TWiST, Jason and Alex...