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This Week in Startups
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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.

Episodes
  • 2024 / 3 / 27
    Ask Jason LIVE!: Unpacking Startup Strategies with Real-Time Q&A | E1921

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  • 2024 / 3 / 26
    AI Demos: Gatekeep, Deepgram, Claude 3 Haiku and more! | E1920

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  • 2024 / 3 / 22
    Kleiner Perkins and Penn’s Endowment on India, loss ratios, and the rise of secondaries | E1919

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  • 2024 / 3 / 21
    Microsoft consumes Inflection and AI Demos from Suno, Cohere, Deepseek VL and more! | E1918

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  • 2024 / 3 / 21
    Optimizing fund structure, GP market fit, & more with Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode | Episode 1917

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  • 2024 / 3 / 20
    The future of enterprise search and AI-powered work productivity with Glean’s Arvind Jain | E1916

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  • 2024 / 3 / 19
    Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915

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  • 2024 / 3 / 14
    2024 VC trends, portfolio construction, & more with Churchill's Raja Doddala | E1914

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  • 2024 / 3 / 14
    Melengo's Justin Kwong on the future of end-to-end clothing manufacturing | E1913

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  • 2024 / 3 / 12
    AI Demos: Claude 3's Opus, Mistral, Groq Playground, EMO by Ali Baba | E1912

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  • 2024 / 3 / 8
    Uber's leadership lessons, AI's disruption, and the power of solo founders with Josh Mohrer | E1911

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  • 2024 / 3 / 7
    Robotic kitchens, restaurant tech, and fast-casual's future with Sweetgreen's Jonathan Neman | E1910

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  • 2024 / 3 / 5
    Business Breakdowns: Moneyball's first-principles, paradigm shifts, and ‘burn the boats’ | E1909

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  • 2024 / 3 / 4
    Mission Over Money & The State of Defense Tech with Palantir's Shyam Sankar | E1908

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  • 2024 / 3 / 1
    Sequoia & Union Square Returns, the Post-AI Labor Market, and the Return of SF? | E1907

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  • 2024 / 2 / 28
    Unlocking the Power of Data with VenCap’s David Clark | E1906

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  • 2024 / 2 / 27
    Ask Jason LIVE! Returns to TWiST! | E1905

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  • 2024 / 2 / 27
    Google's AI emergency, Apple's lowkey AI moves, amazing Sora demos & more with Sunny Madra | E1904

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  • 2024 / 2 / 23
    Reddit’s IPO, Consumer vs. Enterprise AI, and Sam Altman’s New Fund and more! | E1903

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  • 2024 / 2 / 22
    Startup Pitches! LAUNCH Accelerator Demo Day | E1902

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  • 2024 / 2 / 21
    Jordan Stein from Cresset Partners on VC dynamics, evaluating emerging managers, & more! | E1901

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  • 2024 / 2 / 19
    The future of public safety via rapid drone response with Aerodome's Rahul Sidhu | E1900

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  • 2024 / 2 / 17
    Mark Suster and Samir Kaji on the 2024 Venture Market, IPOS, and Secondaries | E1899

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  • 2024 / 2 / 17
    Mark Susterand Samir Kaji on the 2024 Venture Market, IPOS, and Secondaries | E1899

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  • 2024 / 2 / 15
    How LPs identify top emerging fund managers with Slipstream’s Alex Edelson | E1898

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  • 2024 / 2 / 14
    Apple’s MGIE, Google’s Gemini Advanced, Microsoft’s Copilot and more! | E1897

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  • 2024 / 2 / 12
    Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on building a legendary VC firm, “Adapt or Die” and "Ikigai" | E1896

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  • 2024 / 2 / 9
    Dry Powder in Venture Capital, VC Ratings, and more with Grady Buchanan and Victor Gutwein | E1895

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  • 2024 / 2 / 8
    AI Demos: AI that interprets human emotion, Hugging Face Assistants, and more! | E1894

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  • 2024 / 2 / 7
    Alexis Ohanian on Reddit's potential IPO & more | E1893

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  • 2024 / 2 / 5
    Beeper's fight to break Apple's stronghold on messaging with Eric Migicovsky | E1892

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  • 2024 / 2 / 3
    Late-stage VC market update + Terra Kaffe's Sahand Dilmaghani | E1891

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  • 2024 / 1 / 31
    Fund of funds: origins, evolution and deep dive with Michael Kim | E1890

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  • 2024 / 1 / 31
    Building a consumer app’s MVP and how to fundraise with Zest’s Jake Gutstein | E1889

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  • 2024 / 1 / 30
    We celebrate our 100th AI Demo with Sunny Madra! | E1888

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  • 2024 / 1 / 27
    Unicorns: now and then with Aileen Lee | E1887

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  • 2024 / 1 / 26
    Venture Fund Size Growth, the Rise of Unicorns, and more with Elizabeth Yin and Zach Coelius | E1886

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  • 2024 / 1 / 24
    Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu on launching the R1, future of AI hardware, and going viral at CES | E1885

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  • 2024 / 1 / 23
    AI Demos: Dinnerfy, Hour One, AI short film “Borrowing Time”, Bland AI and more! | E1884

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  • 2024 / 1 / 20
    Series A valuations, M&A in 2024, and M.A.N.G with Jason Shuman and Raja Doddala | E1883

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  • 2024 / 1 / 17
    LP investment strategies, IRR focus, and more with Berkocorp's Joshua Berkowitz | E1882

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  • 2024 / 1 / 16
    Flexport's Ryan Petersen on returning as CEO, global logistics in a time of conflict & more | E1881

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  • 2024 / 1 / 16
    Best of CES recap with Sunny Madra | E1880

    This Week in Startups is brought to you by… Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal-breaker for startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC 2 report fast. TWiST...

  • 2024 / 1 / 12
    Michael Kim, Jason Calacanis, and David Weisburd on VC marks, Rabois leaving FF for Khosla, and more | E1879

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  • 2024 / 1 / 12
    Dara Khosrowshahi, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jason Calacanis on Uber's growth and future | E1778

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  • 2024 / 1 / 12
    Dara Khosrowshahi, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jason Calacanis on Uber's growth and future | E1878

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  • 2024 / 1 / 9
    The Growing Ransomware Threat: Targets, Insights, and Strategies with Halcyon's Jon Miller | E1877

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  • 2024 / 1 / 9
    AI Demos: Stable Diffusion Turbo, AI Room Decorator, AI-Driven Clothing Site, and more! | E1876

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  • 2024 / 1 / 6
    Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jason Calacanis on the state of tech markets, hosted by David Weisburd | E1875

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  • 2024 / 1 / 4
    AI on Trial: Inside the NY Times vs. OpenAI Lawsuit with Cecilia Ziniti | E1874

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