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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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- This Week in Startups
Did the Midterms Destroy All Hope for Data Centers? | E2360
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Why a Do-Nothing Congress could be great for markets | E2359
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Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron is 90% sure we live in a simulation | E2358
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Binance Hacked $6.3B Stolen, DoorDash Buys Instacart For $17B, Jake Newfield from Hermetiq, + More!
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Is AI the new cigarettes? Our VC panel digs into Anthropic’s S-1 | E2356
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Pregame Your Launch Before Your App Exists (w/ Amanda Bradford) | E2355
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OpenAI’s $1.25T Raise, Starlink Mobile & Zuck’s Tax Deal | EP 2354
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This Week in StartupsWe asked 3 VCs: would you invest in Elizabeth Holmes’ next startup? | E2353
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This Week in StartupsAnthropic Gives Away 5% of Its Shares, Clone’s Muscle Robot, ElevenLabs Steals Podcaster's Voice
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Flying Cars, OpenAI Spies, Why AI Isn’t Sticking (Superhuman CEO)
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The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI
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The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349
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Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato
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This Week in StartupsWhat VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347
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This Week in StartupsJason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346
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This Week in StartupsInside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345
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This Week in StartupsJustin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344
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This Week in StartupsJason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338
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This Week in StartupsThe 5 Companies Apple Must Buy
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This Week in StartupsA rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342
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This Week in StartupsVCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341
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This Week in StartupsElon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340
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This Week in StartupsHugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
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This Week in Startups90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics
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This Week in StartupsAsk Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337
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This Week in StartupsThe Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336
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This Week in StartupsBecki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play
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This Week in StartupsDid OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335
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This Week in StartupsDr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334
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This Week in StartupsBecki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
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This Week in StartupsVC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333
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This Week in StartupsAre AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332
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This Week in StartupsBreaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331
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This Week in StartupsBill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330
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You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
Today'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…
This Week in StartupsChina wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329
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This Week in StartupsOpen source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328
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This Week in StartupsTaste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics
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This Week in StartupsNeurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327
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This Week in StartupsBittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326
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This Week in StartupsWhat we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325
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This Week in StartupsThese robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns
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This Week in StartupsZuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323
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This Week in StartupsHow AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322
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This Week in StartupsAirtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321
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This Week in StartupsHow Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320
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This Week in StartupsWhy AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319
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This Week in StartupsBanning Chinese robots isn't regulatory capture | E2318
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This Week in StartupsWhile other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317
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This Week in StartupsWhy quantum has been "10 years away" for 30 years | E2316
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This Week in StartupsWhy this longevity startup raised in Japan, not Silicon Valley | TWiST Tokyo | E2315
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This Week in StartupsThe AI Securing Your Workforce Before a Mistake Ever Becomes a Breach | E2314
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This Week in StartupsThe dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313
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A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312
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Jason turned $11 and one tweet into 1.1M views | E2311
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This Week in StartupsDanny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310
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Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market
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This Week in Startups$100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308
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This Week in StartupsWhy the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307
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This Week in StartupsChamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure
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