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This Week in Startups
1,463 episodes · by Jason Calacanis
About This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups is a podcast with 1,463 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. 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. PodLexicon indexes every episode of This Week in Startups and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
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Validating Customer Problems Managing VC Relationships Evaluating Investor Geography Personal Spending Thresholds AI and Vertical SaaS Ask Humans Pitch VC Operational Shift and Infrastructure Perks Venture Fund Economics and Incentives
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Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328 — August 21, 2026Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics — August 20, 2026Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327 — August 19, 2026Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326 — August 17, 2026What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325 — August 15, 2026These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns — August 12, 2026Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323 — August 11, 2026How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322 — August 07, 2026Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321 — August 05, 2026How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320 — August 03, 2026Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319 — July 31, 2026Banning Chinese robots isn't regulatory capture | E2318 — July 29, 2026While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317 — July 27, 2026Why quantum has been "10 years away" for 30 years | E2316 — July 24, 2026Why this longevity startup raised in Japan, not Silicon Valley | TWiST Tokyo | E2315 — July 22, 2026The AI Securing Your Workforce Before a Mistake Ever Becomes a Breach | E2314 — July 20, 2026The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313 — July 17, 2026A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312 — July 15, 2026Jason turned $11 and one tweet into 1.1M views | E2311 — July 13, 2026Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310 — July 10, 2026Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market — July 08, 2026$100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308 — July 06, 2026Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307 — July 01, 2026Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure — June 29, 2026Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305 — June 27, 2026Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table — June 24, 2026The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303 — June 22, 2026Why SpaceX Buying Cursor Changes Everything — June 18, 2026The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon… — June 15, 2026SpaceX IPO Day: What Wall St. and the media missed | E2300 — June 13, 2026Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299 — June 10, 2026The AI Tutor That Makes Kids Actually Think | E2298 — June 08, 2026Anthropic wants to slow AI down and Bernie wants 50%: JCal Reacts | E2297 — June 06, 2026The project SpaceX's first employee raised $500M for — June 03, 2026This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 — June 01, 2026How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026: Ask Jason | E2294 — May 29, 2026The Drone Company Quietly Taking Over Delivery — May 27, 2026From hypercars to cruise missiles: Lukas Czinger on the future of US defense | E2292 — May 23, 2026Avi Patel on the startup that copied Kled and why he called out General Catalyst by name | E2291 — May 20, 2026Why does Gen Z hate AI? — May 18, 2026The Self-Driving Startup Nobody Saw Coming | E2289 — May 15, 2026How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You) — May 13, 2026How Many Startups Will Survive OpenAI? | E2288 — May 13, 2026Cerebras's IPO goes vertical, and the death of OpenClaw? | E2287 — May 11, 20265,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286 — May 09, 2026The end of Venture Capital? (VC Roundtable) | E2285 — May 06, 2026Naval's GP, Ankur Nagpal, Breaks Down The Viral "USVC" Fund | E2284 — May 05, 2026Can an AI Agent Legally Own a Company? Christian van der Henst's Wild Experiment| E2283 — May 01, 2026Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics — April 30, 2026The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282 — April 29, 2026
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