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This Week in Startups
1,487 episodes · by Jason Calacanis
About This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups is a podcast with 1,487 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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Reddit's Community-Driven Longevity Venture Capital Innovation with Cerebro Market Cycles, IPO Outlook, and Fundraising Private Credit Surge and LP-GP Dynamics Meta and Llama 3 Trusting Meta as Infrastructure Grok and Real-Time X Search AI for Defense and Autonomy
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What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347 — October 08, 2026Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346 — October 07, 2026Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345 — October 03, 2026Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344 — October 01, 2026The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy — September 28, 2026Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338 — September 28, 2026A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342 — September 25, 2026VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341 — September 23, 2026Elon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340 — September 21, 2026Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339 — September 18, 2026Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339 — September 18, 202690% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics — September 15, 2026Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337 — September 14, 2026The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 — September 11, 2026Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play — September 10, 2026Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335 — September 09, 2026Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334 — September 04, 2026Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics — September 03, 2026VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333 — September 02, 2026Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332 — August 31, 2026Breaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331 — August 28, 2026Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330 — August 26, 2026You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics — August 25, 2026China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329 — August 25, 2026Open 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, 2026
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