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1

The Self-Driving Startup Nobody Saw Coming | E2289

2

How Many Startups Will Survive OpenAI? | E2288

3

Cerebras's IPO goes vertical, and the death of OpenClaw? | E2287

4

5,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286

5

The end of Venture Capital? (VC Roundtable) | E2285

6

Naval's GP, Ankur Nagpal, Breaks Down The Viral “USVC” Fund | E2284

7

Can an AI Agent Legally Own a Company? Christian van der Henst's Wild Experiment| E2283

8

Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics

9

The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282

10

China Kills Meta / Manus Deal (Story Of The Year) | E2281

11

Naval’s $500 VC fund, the Maduro Polymarket scandal, and NYT defends theft and murder | E2280

12

The Defense Tech Startup YC Kicked Out of a Meeting is Now Arming America | E2280

13

SpaceX and Cursor team up to topple Claude Code | E2279

14

Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278

15

3D-Printed Homes for $99K: ICON’s Jason Ballard on the future of housing | E2277

16

This 22-Year-Old Built TikTok for Mobile Games, and It’s Growing Fast | E2276

17

Bittensor’s (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275

18

Bittensor Drama! TAO down 15%! | E2274

19

Anthropic’s Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can’t have it | E2273

20

3 AI Agents That Actually Replaced Human Jobs | E2272

21

AI Rebuilt Every YC W26 Startup. Should Founders Be Scared? | E2271

22

How 3 CEOs Use AI to Run $10B in Companies | This Week in AI

23

Venture Roundtable: SpaceX IPO, AI's PR Crisis, and the Defense Tech Bubble | E2270

24

The 5-Step Framework for AI Agents That Improve While You Sleep | E2269

25

The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268

26

This Bittensor Subnet Could Cut Drug Discovery Costs in HALF | E2267

27

$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6

28

Compliance Startup Scandal... Is Delve Guilty? | E2266

29

The Drone Company Everyone Thought Was Illegal (Now Worth $4B+) | E2265

30

How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev

31

Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans?

32

One Genius Rule That Made This Coffee Brand Famous | EP 2262

33

The Global Expansion of Self-Driving Vehicles

34

How agents will change banking forever | E2260

35

Wisdom of the $TAO: the future is decentralized AI

36

Is Anthropic Making the Biggest Mistake in AI History | E2258

37

How the OpenClaw foundation bullet-proofed its future (w/Dave Morin) | E2257

38

The Biggest Private Funding Round in History | E2256

39

Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252

40

Kill Your Startup’s Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254

41

We Asked 3 Experts How to Get More Value out of OpenClaw | E2253

42

When Will Openclaw go Mainstream? | E2252

43

Will OpenAI Tank OpenClaw? | E2251

44

OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250

45

Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249

46

How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

47

Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247

48

We built OpenClaw Ultron to replace 20 people at our company | E2246

49

Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245

50

Where early-stage founders MUST focus to success | E2244

51

SpaceX + xAI deal gets us one step closer to Musk Industries | E2243

52

How OpenClaw (Clawdbot) Is Rewriting the Way Our Team Works with Rahul Sood | E2242

53

How decriminalization led to an explosion in cannabis startups (Feat. Ford Smith, Andrew Duffy, and Socrates Rosenfeld) | E2241

54

Clawdbot is an inflection point in AI history | E2240

55

Why You’ll Choose an AI Doctor (feat. Fred Almeida and Max Weiss) | E2239

56

From Blood Transfusions to Burritos, How Zipline is Automating Delivery | E2238

57

How startups suddenly became “cool” in Japan (feat. Shin Takamiya of Globis Capital) | E2237

58

Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236

59

Japan’s Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235

60

How to Make Billions from Exposing Fraud | E2234

61

Secrets of Startup Recruiting in the US AND Japan! (feat. Sho Takei) | E2233

62

Jason’s Top CES Products and Takeaways | E2232

63

AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231

64

2026 Starts with a bang: META AI Drama and Nvidia’s $20B Groq Acquisition | E2230

65

THE 2025 TWISTY AWARDS! Biggest Trends, Best Guests, Top Name Drops, and more | E2229

66

Jason’s ultimate dream mega-purchase + Founder Q’s | E2228

67

Waymo Madness in SF! Why robotaxis clogged the streets | E2227

68

Level up your copywriting w/ Sam Parr | E2226

69

INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225

70

Is this the end for the Roomba? Why iRobot went bankrupt | E2224

71

Disney and OpenAI sign landmark deal… and we saw it coming! | E2223

72

“The best founders find a way to make it happen”: VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David Clark | E2222

73

FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221

74

What’s REALLY going on with those “ads” in ChatGPT | E2220

75

Netflix buys WB + why Jason should run Disney | E2219

76

Getting past the “Cardinal Sins of Delegating” with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218

77

Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217

78

Is $MSTR over? Jason takes his victory lap. | E2216

79

SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215

80

Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214

81

Jason predicts a “major M&A moment” in the next six months! | E2213

82

Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212

83

AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211

84

Archer buys an airport, Ramp’s huge raise, RIP KitKat, Bezos returns to the C-Suite, and more | E2210

85

Stop ghosting your friends with Nox’s RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209

86

Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208

87

Inside Harvey AI’s $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207

88

IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206

89

It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s REGENT’s Seafarer | E2205

90

Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204

91

Sending datacenters into orbit | E2203

92

What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202

93

Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201

94

iPhone Air is “inspiring,” and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200

95

Jason Unpacks Sequoia’s New Funds | E2199

96

If you’re not working 9-9-6, are you working hard enough? | E2198

97

Amazon’s “Age of Efficiency,” LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197

98

Magic School uses AI to help kids learn, not cheat | E2196

99

Just how frothy is the AI Bubble anyway? | E2195

100

Deel’s growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great “momentum is moat” debate | E2194

101

Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193

102

What Ramp’s data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192

103

Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191

104

Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190

105

We’re Hiring! Join the This Week in Startups Team

106

OpenAI’s latest “bizarre” mega-deal, datacenters in space, previewing Tesla’s big announcement and more | E2189

107

Sora app review, Perplexity’s Comet is FREE, and which AI tools reign supreme? | E2188

108

Sora 2, Tilly Norwood, and the New Slop Era | E2187

109

Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186

110

Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185

111

Is there an AI coding bubble? Plus Meta’s new SlopTok product, Neon’s divisive app shuts down, and more | E2184

112

The rise of “workslop,” Alibaba’s insane new deepfake model, Tether’s MASSIVE valuation, and more | E2183

113

Jason’s H-1B pitch, the latest on the TikTok deal, and Howie’s first ad | E2182

114

Meta’s “creepy” new Ray Bans, Beehiiv teams with Discord, AND a visit from Lovable CEO Anton Osika! | E2181

115

Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics

116

Tesla and Uber team up! Plus Weave Robotics’ Isaac and $OPEN bull Eric Jackson | E2180

117

Why Medium is HIDING from AI | E2179

118

Robinhood Venture Fund, Polymarket adds earnings, and LAUNCH Accelerator 35 is here! | E2178

119

All-In Summit Highlights, Schools Could Block Social Media, FTC Chatbot Investigation, and Zoox hits Vegas | E2177

120

AI Copyright & Training Data w/ Chris Paniewski | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

121

Republic opens private markets as Positron takes on GPUs: A TWiST500 doubleheader! | E2176

122

How Founders Are Building the Next Great Startups | Paid.ai, iTruckr & Tenax AI | E2175

123

The Browser Wars heat up! PLUS, Khan on The Bulwark, rules for great domain names, and Polymarket returns | E2174

124

Creative Structures w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

125

Uber, Lucid & Nuro team up on robotaxis by 2026 | E2173

126

Jason’s Tesla Optimus prediction, Anthropic’s latest mega-raise and more | E2172

127

KPop Demon Hunters breaks records, Grok speeds up, and an AI-powered browser deep dive | E2171

128

Market Update and Trends w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

129

Google is Nano Banana, Apple AI plans & The Great H1B Visa Debate | E2170

130

xAI’s App Store lawsuit, Intel shares vs. grocery stores, and Netskope’s IPO | E2169

131

Do Kwon Guilty, Powell Pivot & OpenAI’s $12B Run Rate | E2168

132

Is Chalk.ai the ‘Next Databricks’? + Tollbit’s Bot Paywall for AI Agents | E2167

133

Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom’s Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud

134

Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166

135

Meta’s “Sensual” AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor’s dreams became memes +  OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165

136

The End of the ZIRP Era, and why recruiting is SO PAINFUL | E2164

137

GPT Psychosis is spreading, the NYT is Super-Doxxing Zuck, and Trump is wetting his beak on Chinese chip exports | E2163

138

GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162

139

Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161

140

Lina Khan’s Figma victory lap, Meta’s Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160

141

TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159

142

All Star Investor Panel! Sophia Amoruso and Ryan Hoover | E2158

143

Figma IPO, IMAX AI Festival, the Tea app spill, that one Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and more! | E2157

144

Behind the scenes at the ALL-IN AI SUMMIT w/ POTUS, JD Vance, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and more… | E2156

145

AUTOMATING HEALTH CARE, THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING, AND PRODUCT VELOCITY | E2155

146

Manufacturing in the US, Building in Open Source… and more | E2154

147

Inside Substack’s $100M Push to Fend Off Beehiiv | E2153

148

Thinking Machines’ RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152

149

Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151

150

Grok 4 Beats OpenAI + The $300 AI Agent Era | E2150

151

Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs’ Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud

152

Starlink + Tesla? $4T Nvidia? Perplexity Browser? Linda Yaccarino Steps Down? | E2149

153

Cloud Seeding, Conspiracies & the Texas Floods | BONUS EPISODE!

154

Exits Are Back, QSB Stock & The New America Party? | E2148

155

Startup Valuations, Biotech’s Crunch & AI’s Massive TAM | E2147

156

The Grammarly–Superhuman Megadeal, plus TWiST 500 chats with LabelBox and Apptronik’s founders | E2146

157

Rebuilding Civilization from First Principles: Inside Balaji’s Network State Vision | E2145

158

Travis’ Uber Comeback, AGI’s Stakes, Meta’s $100M AI Hires & Prediction Market Gold Rush | E2144

159

Multi-Agent AI, Open Protocols & Startup Acceleration with Saurabh Tiwary | AI Basics

160

VC Roundtable: Recruiting Secrets, Second-Time Founders & Product-Market Fit Myths | E2143

161

AI Producers, Tesla Robotaxis & the Rise of the “Tiny Teams” Era | E2142

162

The Strip Mining Era of LLMs—And Why It’s About to End | E2141

163

From Drones to Dystopia: The Future of Jobs, Fires & Meta’s AI Land Grab | E2140

164

Meta, Scale, and the Future of AI Labeling: Did Zuck Just Kill a Category? | E2139

165

Stripe’s Crypto Wallet, M&A Momentum, and Robots Replacing Soul-Crushing Jobs | E2138

166

TWIST VC Roundtable: Startup Valuations, Secondary Markets & the YC Revenue Illusion | E2137

167

YC Valuations, VC Slowdown, and Office Hours with CustomerIQ | E2136

168

Circle’s IPO Soars, The Future of VC and Cursor’s Crazy Growth | E2135

169

Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf, Deel Rewrites the Narrative and Flock Safety’s Surveillance Tech | E2134

170

Grammarly’s $1B Round, Brain Computers, and NYT Licenses To Amazon | E2133

171

How AthenaHQ and Browser Use Are Building the Next Layer of the Internet | E2132

172

Google’s AI Design Tool, Salesforce’s $8B Comeback Deal, and M&A Momentum Builds | E2131

173

Apple’s Tariff Trouble, Anthropic’s New Models, and Our Founder Friday Finale | E2130

174

David Friedberg on AI-First Startups & the Future of Biology, Business & Creativity | AI Basics with Google Cloud

175

Jony Ive Joins OpenAI, Waymo Hits 10M Rides, and How to Launch a Marketplace from Scratch | E2129

176

Drones, Design, and Digital Espionage | E2128

177

Microsoft Layoffs, Immigration Blunders, & Office Hours with Jeremy Redman of Airfive | E2127

178

Chime’s IPO, Databricks’ $1B Acquisition & Dave Rubin’s Media Empire | E2126

179

Agentic AI Meets Cybersecurity + Solar Robots in the Desert | E2125

180

Anti-Work Uprising, Copyright Wars & the StreamFog Solution | E2124

181

OpenAI Scoops Instacart’s CEO, AI in the Courtroom & Off-Road Startups | E2123

182

Zoox Crash Fallout, COATUE’s $1B Open Fund, and Office Hours with FusionAds | E2122

183

Cursor’s $9B Round, AI-Powered Toys & CloudNuro’s SaaS Fix | E2121

184

Apple’s App Store Loss, AI Persuasion, and an Interview with Tyler Denk of Beehiiv | E2120

185

What's Next for AI Infrastructure with Amin Vahdat | AI Basics with Google Cloud

186

Bittensor’s Rise, Meta’s Llama Goes Cloud, & AI Now Writes Your Code | E2119

187

Meta’s Dangerous Chat, Protect AI & Founder Fridays Pitch Comp | E2118

188

Discord’s Power Move, Slate’s Modular EVs & the “Act for Private Gain” | E2117

189

Cursor’s $300M ARR, Uber’s FTC Battle, and Office Hours with GoShare | E2116

190

Robot Lifeguards, TapCheck’s Payday Play & Thalamus’s Wild Market Share | E2115

191

LMArena Goes Startup, AI App Wars Begin, Scott Bair’s Design Playbook | E2114

192

AI Progress and Impact on Ecosystem Players with CapitalG’s Jill Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud

193

Cuts CEO Talks Tariffs, Figma's IPO Buzz, and a Nerd Crawler Update | E2113

194

Vertical AI Innovations: Abacus LLM in Finance & Synthesia's Video Avatars | E2112

195

HuggingFace Buys Pollen Robotics, DHH & Bezos Founder Advice & a JCal Origin Story | E2111

196

Palantir's Fellowship, Coco Robots & Startup Office Hours | E2110

197

70mph Drone Deliveries, 125% Tariffs & What $10M Exits Really Mean | E2109

198

Economic Chaos, More Pitch Madness & the Shopify AI Manifesto | E2108

199

Rippling Targets $16B, Market Chaos, TikTok Timeout, and Office Hours | E2107

200

Spycraft in SaaS, Rabbit’s Comeback, and Startup Pitch Madness | E2106

201

M&A Mania, Palantir Meme Crash + Office Hours with Hookhub | E2105

202

AI Revolution Gains, Non-Consensus Startups & Prosperous AI | E2104

203

11x in Trouble and China's AI Acceleration | E2103

204

23andMe BANKRUPT, Saylor Still Buying Bitcoin, + Founder Interviews | E2102

205

Fact-Checking Mark Rober, and the Fall of TechCrunch | E2101

206

Tesla vs. Mark Rober, Google’s $32B M&A Bet, & XRP’s SEC Victory | E2100

207

AI-Powered Coding & Space Tugboats? Inside the Future of Software & Satellites! | E2099

208

Self-Driving Car Myths, Klarna’s Big IPO & Netflix’s $300M Gamble | E2098

209

Europe’s Startup Future with Harry Stebbings | E2097

210

Is Project Europe a YC Riff? Nick Denton is Back! And more! | E2096

211

The Future of AI Customer Support with LiveX AI’s Jia Li | AI Basics with Google Cloud

212

Student Roy Lee Hacks Amazon, SBF's Jailhouse Chat + more! | E2095

213

AI’s Next Leap: Hyper-Realistic Agents & Unlimited Power | E2094

214

Coreweave IPO, AVRide & Digg is Back! | E2093

215

AI Agents & the Future of Work with LangChain’s Harrison Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud

216

US Crypto Reserve Bombshell, Ramp’s $13B Climb, & more | E2092

217

Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091

218

The Incredible Double Interview: Superhuman and Robinhood | E2090

219

Apple Drops $500B on AI while Google Gemini Eyes Your iOS Devices! | E2089

220

Castelion Hypersonic Missiles and Crunchbase’s AI Powered Predictions | E2088

221

EV Truck Startup Nikola Runs Out of Juice | E2087

222

Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086

223

IPO Shakeups, NVIDIA’s Big Bets & Must-Know Founder Hacks | E2085

224

Slow Ventures' Creators Fund and Helion Energy's Fusion Reactors | 2084

225

Tech's Super Bowl, Huge Earnings Week, Lon Returns and more! | E2083

226

Gas Stations in Space and Carried Interest on the Chopping Block | E2082

227

Is Palantir's Surge Just Hype | E2081

228

Lovable's Anton Osika on Revolutionizing Software Development and OpenAI Drops Deep Research | E2080

229

Is OpenAI Really Worth $300B? ElevenLabs’ Series C & YC’s Funding Focus | E2079

230

Boom Supersonic's Milestones, OpenAI Ethics, and Startup Tools | E2078

231

DeepSeek Rattles Markets + SailPoint's Going Public… again? | E2077

232

Twilio Bets Small, DeepSeek Scares & the GameOn Fraud | E2076

233

Created By Humans | Sila’s Battery Evolution | E2075

234

Trump, Memecoins, and What to Expect from the New Administration | E2074

235

TikTok Ban, Data Centers in Space… and What's a Vector? | E2073

236

What’s Going On With Google Gemini Deep Research? | E2072

237

Profound, Resistant AI & OpenAI’s Economic Pitch | E2071

238

The LA Fire's Cost and the U.S. Jobs Report | E2070

239

Meta's Moderation and Nvidia's Domination | E2069

240

Twist News: Fusion, Rural Investment, and Applied AI | E2068

241

Venture Concentration, High-Skill Immigration, And Who Should Buy Lyft? | E2067

242

2024 TWISTY Awards | E2066

243

Palantir’s Valuation, VC’s Go To Washington and Much More | E2065

244

Codeium’s Vision for AI-Driven Development with Varun Mohan | E2064

245

Databricks' Record Raise, TikTok goes to the Supreme Court, and all about the Grammarly-Coda Deal | E2063

246

Sora Disappoints, ChatGPT Pro Tested, Inference Time Reasoning & More with Sunny Madra | E2062

247

Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061

248

Cyera's Hypergrowth, Cake's Cap Table Push, and ServiceTitan's Stellar IPO | E2060

249

The Top 6 Startup Finance FAQ’s | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn

250

Negative Venture Returns, GM Kneecaps Cruise, and Finix joins the TWiST500 | E2059

251

Drones, Deepfakes, and Disruptors with Lon Harris, Remento and Cuby | E2058

252

TWiST News: Bitcoin’s Future, Reddit Answers, SEC Shifts, and more! | E2057

253

Ghost Engineers, Measuring Productivity, & Memecoin Scams | E2056

254

Year-End Planning for Startup Success | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn

255

TWiST News: $100k Veteran Pitch Winner EMPEQ, US Unicorn Dominance, and T500 Updates | E2055

256

TWiST News: Bitcoin, Saylor's Microsoft Pitch, and the Delaware-Tesla Fight | E2054

257

TWiST News: Pardons, Enron, Crypto's Moment, and the Future of Chinese Venture | E2053

258

The Self-Driving Unicorn You Need to Meet & MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Bet | E2052

259

TWiST News: Startups & Wealth Taxes, The Bitcoin Boom, and The OpenAI Browser | E2051

260

How Startups Can Crush Enterprise AI Sales | E2050

261

TWiST News: Nvidia's AI Edge, Google Might Have to Sell Chrome, and Founder Fridays Updates | E2049

262

TWiST News: Venture-Backed Defense Startups, Anti-Drone Guns, and Querio's AI Data Platform | E2048

263

Anatomy of a Win-Win Acquisition: Synergy, Growth, AI, and the Future of SaaS | E2047

264

TWiST News: Netflix Goes Live, The FCC Revamp, Free Speech, and Regulatory Shifts | E2046

265

Misaligned Incentives Between GPs and Founders with Altimeter's Jamin Ball | E2045

266

TWiST News: Face Robots, Solar's Growth, The Polymarket Mess, and YC's Latest Call for Startups | E2044

267

TWiST News: Underwater Drones, Robot Swarms, and Klarna's Going Public | E2043

268

TWiST News: Serve Robotics, High Skill Immigration, and the Trump Trade | E2042

269

TWiST News: Reddit Earnings, Apple Intelligence, and more AI money | E2041

270

TWiST News: Skydio's Drones, High-Skill immigration, and M&A Unleashed | E2040

271

Insane Demands of AI & Datacenters: Exowatt’s Mission for Affordable, Sustainable Power| E2039

272

TWiST News: AI in Gaming, Nvidia and GPU Clouds, Nuclear Energy Challenges, and Waymo Updates | E2038

273

TWiST News: Grape-picking robots, startup investing for all, and the earnings numbers you need to know | E2037

274

Fast growth, big capital, and how Moniepoint is building a fintech unicorn in Africa | E2036

275

AI-Driven Auto Shops with Mastertech.ai and Data Observability with Monte Carlo | E2035

276

TWiST News: The Startup Redefining Sonos, Influencers, Elections and Google's next AI push | E2034

277

Merge's Unified API Bet in the AI Era | E2033

278

AI for Investors, Publisher Rewards, Sleep Tech & More – 2024 Jam with JCal Recap | E2032

279

TWiST News: Headphones.com, How Sound Takes Down Drones, TollBit Secures Series A | E2031

280

Election Security, Skift's Rafat Ali, and Anthropic Unleashes PC AI | E2030

281

TWiST News: F1 on Apple Vision Pro, Self-Driving, and Stablecoins | E2029

282

The Anatomy of a Startup Acquisition with Cacheflow's Sarika Garg | E2028

283

The Best Financial Advice VCs Give Startups | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn

284

TWiST News: Subscription Economics, Density's Waffle, and The Cost of AV Fleets | E2027

285

AI Demos: ChatGPT-o4 Canvas, Notebook LM & Meta's Movie Gen | E2026

286

TWiST News: Tesla Robotaxis, Electric RVs, and How Startups are Helping Secure Elections | E2025

287

TWiST500 Spotlight: The must-know startups from AI to robotics! | E2024

288

Navigating the AI Boom | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn

289

TWiST News: M.G. Siegler Explains the Current Venture Crisis and Google’s Antitrust Woes | E2023

290

The Next-Generation of Single-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplanes with Radian's Richard Humphrey | E2022

291

Hacking Meta's AR glasses, a shakeup at Initialized, and the best startups of the decade | E2021

292

Highlighting Data Intelligence with Databricks & Bonbon’s Reward Innovation | E2020

293

The Automation Endgame, VCs Returning Cash, and the OpenAI Wager | E2019

294

Monique Woodard, Fund of Funds Panel & The Pro-Rata Yacht! | E2018

295

The AI Supercycle, California's AI Safety Bill Vetoed, and the Future of AR/VR | E2017

296

The Future of Sound: Udio’s Vision for AI-Generated Music | E2016

297

Data Centers and Energy with Phil Deutch | E2015

298

OpenAI CTO Departure, DOJ AI Compliance, M&A Trends, and more! | E2014

299

Amazon's RTO Impact, Lina Khan’s 60 Minutes, and Microsoft's Big Nuclear Deals | E2013

300

How Pie's 'Block Ads, Get Paid' Model Is Giving Users Control of Ads & Privacy | E2012

301

Navigating Challenges in Distressed Companies with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

302

No hype, Just works: How Comma reached 100M miles in autonomous driving | E2011

303

Summarize Anything & Discover Connections with Recall’s Sankari Nair | E2010

304

OpenAI's new models, the MrBeast leak, Waymo ♥’s Uber and more! | E2009

305

Relationship Advice of the Investor Sort with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter | E2008

306

The New Power Law & How I Built a $100B Portfolio | E2007

307

Boom: Supersonic speeds for everyday travel with Blake Scholl | E2006

308

Scaling Childcare with Tech: Winnie.com’s Blueprint for Growing with Purpose & Profit | E2005

309

The Rise of Stablecoins with Circle’s Jeremy Allaire | E2004

310

Medium: Reaching Profitability while The Internet is Broken + CorePod | E2003

311

Fundraising hurdles and M&A slowdown with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

312

Superhuman 2.0: The AI edge, top productivity hacks, and the future of email | E2002

313

AI Demos: Gemini Gmail, Search GPT, Groq with Voice & Playground | E2001

314

Episode 2000! Epic guests, huge news, and how to build a media legacy in 14 short years | E2000

315

Startup Pitch Competition: Three founders compete for $25K | E1999

316

The charges against Pavel Durov, the future of encryption, and secondaries are heating up | E1998

317

AI Demos: New Runway, Flux, Grok 2.0 & Jam Session with Ulama | E1997

318

Legal must-haves before raising capital with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

319

AI on the blockchain, Waymo's rise, and the truth about tech layoffs | E1996

320

Venture returns, recovering startups, and VC conflicts | E1995

321

Liquidity: Recession fears, AI market shifts, and the future of tech hubs | E1994

322

Final Boss Sour’s James Hicks + River’s Rae Lambert | E1993

323

WeRide IPO, Polymarket + Perplexity, the Trump Bump and more! | E1992

324

Startup Pitch Competition: Four founders compete for $25K | E1991

325

Navigating startup funding market trends with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

326

Liquidity Summit Talks: Antonio Gracias and Gavin Baker | E1990

327

TWiST 500! Huntress, TollBit & Cyera | E1989

328

Overcoming SMB Roadblocks: Expert tips from Gusto's Josh Reeves | Episode 1988

329

The $97 Billion VC Panel | E1987

330

The Power of WEKA with Antonio Gracias and Liran Zvibel + Jam with JCal: Uptrends AI | E1986

331

Scaling Creativity: Josh Silverman on Etsy's growth, AI integration, and market strategies | E1985

332

Wiz passes on Google, Meta pushes open-source AI ahead, Spotify’s earnings, and more! | E1984

333

Building Enduring Value and Hitting Incremental Gains with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel | E1983

334

US space innovation, defense tech challenges, and more with True Anomaly’s Even Rogers | E1982

335

Top 5 VC funds raise big $, venture capital DPI is back, and Sequoia’s offer to LP’s | E1981

336

Google weighs $23B for Wiz, startups in a second Trump admin, and Sequoia's Stripe sale | E1980

337

Five levels of AI, venture's recovery & the hottest construction startups | E1979

338

Anand Nandakumar on the future of remote driving and ride services | E1978

339

GPU clusters, venture trends, and the robotics startups we’re most excited about | E1977

340

AI Demos: Sunny’s Back with Luma Labs, Kling, Claude Sonnet & Getting AI Native | E1976

341

Logan Allin and Neil Datta on which startups AI puts at risk, tech regulation, and H-1B reform | E1975

342

The MEI vs DEI debate, tech press, Chime buys Salt Labs, and more! | E1974

343

Sequoia & the Hewlett Foundation on VCs NOT raising funds, Cisco's $1B AI fund, and more! | E1973

344

TWIST NEWS: AI Music, Circle’s IPO, TWIST500 and more! | E1972

345

Immigration, The Trump Interview, Air Taxis in the Bay Area and the Future of Remote Work | E1971

346

Start-Up Nation Deep Dive with Dan Senor | E1970

347

From the future of flight to brand building, insight from Liquidity Summit 2024 | E1969

348

Nvidia tops Microsoft, FTC sues Adobe, weight loss startups, and more! | E1968

349

Woke Google Maps, how Wells Fargo is losing money on fintech, and the global AI race | E1967

350

Lessons in Unreasonable Hospitality with Will Guidara | E1966

351

Inflation cools, how Waymo handled a crash, and the next startups to go public | E1965

352

Apple’s WWDC 2024: Reactions, Highlights & Breakdowns with Jason and Alex | E1964

353

The state of seed, the first TWIST500 startups, and the impact of anonymous apps on society | E1963

354

Great Builders & Success First with Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe | E1962

355

Rising Above the Noise in Consumer VC with Kirsten Green of Forerunner | E1961

356

Texas energy grid challenges and solutions with Base Power’s Justin Lopas | E1960

357

Steve Jurvetson and The Metals Company on Ocean mining, EV market growth, and AI's tech impact | E1959

358

Mastering Venture Capital and Founder Strategies with Rory O’Driscoll and Mark Suster

359

TWIST News: xAI's massive $6B raise, the startups building our drone future & TWIST500 | E1957

360

AI investments, VC ecosystem geography, and VC hypocrisy | E1956

361

Glue: The New Slack Killer with David Sacks and Evan Owen | E1955

362

$NVDA's earnings, media economics in the AI era, Farcaster's mega crypto round, and more! | E1954

363

OpenAI drama, billion-dollar exits, and founder salaries with new co-host Alex Wilhelm | E1953

364

Crypto, the Midas List, and democratizing VC with Delian Asparouhov and Mel Williams | E1952

365

Pioneering physical AI with Archetype AI’s Ivan Poupyrev | E1951

366

AI Demos: Big Drops This Week from OpenAI & Google | E1950

367

Bridging education and business with The OC’s Dr. Justin Terry | E1949

368

Max Altman & Ben Braverman chart Saga VC's maiden voyage with Mark Suster | E1948

369

AI Robots with Purpose with Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics | E1947

370

Today's Space Tech Boom with Apex's Ian Cinnamon and Mark Suster | E1946

371

Bridging academia and job market realities with Extern’s Matt Wilkerson | E1945

372

LIQUIDITY: Major challenger to OpenAI, xAI, closing on $6B in funding | E1944

373

Decoding Customer Insights, Trust, and the Jobs-to-be-Done Framework with Bob Moesta | E1943

374

Startup pitch competition! Jason invests $25K into one of three founders | E1942

375

AI Demos: Llama 3 Innovations, vibecheck, Globe Engineer, Wisdolia and Tesla’s FSD | E1941

376

How AI and remote work is coming for your job | E1940

377

PodcastAI: Edward Brawer is here to be your podcast’s arms dealer! | E1939

378

The power of super communication with Charles Duhigg | E1938

379

Ask Jason LIVE!: Navigating startup growth with Real-Time Q&A | E1937

380

AI Demos and News: Llama 3, Marblism, Lumona & AI Jet-Fighter Dogfights | E1936

381

AI Demos: Meta AI Ups it’s Game with Llama 3 | E1935

382

Redpoint Ventures and Stepstone Group on VC Deployment, M&A, and Google's AI Strategy | E1934

383

Destiny (D/XYZ) and the Buzz Around Public Access to Private Companies | E1933

384

Startup pitch competition! Jason invests $25K into one of three founders | E1932

385

Udio AI’s Music Magic, Aqua’s Unique Dictation, Copyright Laws & the 1000x Potential of AI  | E1931

386

Tomasz Tunguz and David Clark on how to invest in AI and Q1 2024 startup valuations | E1930

387

The Alef Model A and the future of flying cars with Alef CEO Jim Dukhovny | E1929

388

Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on liquid neural networks, AI advancement, the race to AGI & more! | E1928

389

Apurva Mehta and Jack Altman on Sam Altman, CalPERS, and Liquidation Preferences | E1927

390

Growth Hacks for Startups from Elliot Shmukler of InstaCart, LinkedIn and now Anomalo | E1926

391

CoreWeave’s Brannin McBee on the future of AI infrastructure, GPU economics, & data centers | E1925

392

The state of modern answer engines, AI demos, and more! | E1924

393

Dave Mcclure & Jordan Stein on YC, "Spray and Pray", and Games VCs Play | E1923

394

Empathic AI and its role in understanding human emotions with Hume AI’s Alan Cowen | E1922

395

Ask Jason LIVE!: Unpacking Startup Strategies with Real-Time Q&A | E1921

396

AI Demos: Gatekeep, Deepgram, Claude 3 Haiku and more! | E1920

397

Kleiner Perkins and Penn’s Endowment on India, loss ratios, and the rise of secondaries | E1919

398

Microsoft consumes Inflection and AI Demos from Suno, Cohere, Deepseek VL and more! | E1918

399

Optimizing fund structure, GP market fit, & more with Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode | Episode 1917

400

The future of enterprise search and AI-powered work productivity with Glean’s Arvind Jain | E1916

401

Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915

402

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

403

Melengo's Justin Kwong on the future of end-to-end clothing manufacturing | E1913

404

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

405

Uber's leadership lessons, AI's disruption, and the power of solo founders with Josh Mohrer | E1911

406

Robotic kitchens, restaurant tech, and fast-casual's future with Sweetgreen's Jonathan Neman | E1910

407

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

408

Mission Over Money & The State of Defense Tech with Palantir's Shyam Sankar | E1908

409

Sequoia & Union Square Returns, the Post-AI Labor Market, and the Return of SF? | E1907

410

Unlocking the Power of Data with VenCap’s David Clark | E1906

411

Ask Jason LIVE! Returns to TWiST! | E1905

412

Google's AI emergency, Apple's lowkey AI moves, amazing Sora demos & more with Sunny Madra | E1904

413

Reddit’s IPO, Consumer vs. Enterprise AI, and Sam Altman’s New Fund and more! | E1903

414

Startup Pitches! LAUNCH Accelerator Demo Day | E1902

415

Jordan Stein from Cresset Partners on VC dynamics, evaluating emerging managers, & more! | E1901

416

The future of public safety via rapid drone response with Aerodome's Rahul Sidhu | E1900

417

Mark Suster and Samir Kaji on the 2024 Venture Market, IPOS, and Secondaries | E1899

418

How LPs identify top emerging fund managers with Slipstream’s Alex Edelson | E1898

419

Apple’s MGIE, Google’s Gemini Advanced, Microsoft’s Copilot and more! | E1897

420

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

421

Dry Powder in Venture Capital, VC Ratings, and more with Grady Buchanan and Victor Gutwein | E1895

422

AI Demos: AI that interprets human emotion, Hugging Face Assistants, and more! | E1894

423

Alexis Ohanian on Reddit's potential IPO & more | E1893

424

Beeper's fight to break Apple's stronghold on messaging with Eric Migicovsky | E1892

425

Late-stage VC market update + Terra Kaffe's Sahand Dilmaghani | E1891

426

Fund of funds: origins, evolution and deep dive with Michael Kim | E1890

427

Building a consumer app’s MVP and how to fundraise with Zest’s Jake Gutstein | E1889

428

We celebrate our 100th AI Demo with Sunny Madra! | E1888

429

Unicorns: now and then with Aileen Lee | E1887

430

Venture Fund Size Growth, the Rise of Unicorns, and more with Elizabeth Yin and Zach Coelius | E1886

431

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

432

AI Demos: Dinnerfy, Hour One, AI short film “Borrowing Time”, Bland AI and more! | E1884

433

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

434

LP investment strategies, IRR focus, and more with Berkocorp's Joshua Berkowitz | E1882

435

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

436

Best of CES recap with Sunny Madra | E1880

437

Michael Kim, Jason Calacanis, and David Weisburd on VC marks, Rabois leaving FF for Khosla, and more | E1879

438

Dara Khosrowshahi, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jason Calacanis on Uber's growth and future | E1878

439

The Growing Ransomware Threat: Targets, Insights, and Strategies with Halcyon's Jon Miller | E1877

440

AI Demos: Stable Diffusion Turbo, AI Room Decorator, AI-Driven Clothing Site, and more! | E1876

441

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

442

AI on Trial: Inside the NY Times vs. OpenAI Lawsuit with Cecilia Ziniti | E1874

443

2024 AI Predictions and Bets with Sunny Madra | E1873

444

Business Breakdowns: “The Founder” Ray Kroc and the Story of McDonalds |  E1872

445

Glenn Kelman on Market Trends, Home-Buying Hacks and Redfin Insights | E1871

446

FCC's Brendan Carr on Starlink subsidy revocation, China's internet ambitions, and TikTok | E1870

447

AI-Powered "Tools for Thought": Exploring NotebookLM with Steven Berlin Johnson | E1869

448

Pioneering AI Wearables: Avi Schiffmann and Tab AI | E1868

449

AI DEMOS: Turning Adele into John Mayer, animating a Jedi Bulldog, AI companions and much more!  | E1867

450

Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K LIVE! | E1866

451

Mastering Early-Stage Board Meetings | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1865

452

Jerry Colonna on 'Reunion': sustaining founder drive, enlightened leadership, and more! | E1864

453

Drawing the Future with AI featuring tldraw’s Steve Ruiz | E1863

454

AI DEMOS: Google’s NotebookLM, Bard’s Gemini upgrade, Magnific’s image upscaler, & more! | E1862

455

Kevin O'Connor on backing visionaries, the future of VC, internet history and more | E1861

456

How to pay yourself as a startup founder | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1860

457

Earth Reimagined: Crafting a planet-scale digital twin with Blackshark.AI's Michael Putz | E1859

458

Genomes Unlocked: Anne Wojcicki's Vision for 23andMe and the Future of Proactive Healthcare | E1858

459

AI demos: Figma’s FigJam, AI drawing, dancing avatars, and more! | E1857

460

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on the ‘Post-SaaS era' | E1856

461

Exploring AI's Pace of Evolution, AGI's Future, and Data Dominance with Adept CEO David Luan | E1855

462

24/7 autonomous agents for everything with Induced AI’s Aryan Sharma | E1854

463

AI demos: Bard's YouTube summarizer, Stability's image editing tools, and more with Sunny Madra | E1853

464

OpenAI Chaos Continues with Sunny Madra and David Sacks | E1852

465

BREAKING: Sam Altman fired from OpenAI, chaos ensues! | E1851

466

Real-time AI-powered design with Krea CEO Victor Perez | E1850

467

Avoiding Accidental Tax Fraud | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1849

468

Engineering an AI-powered doctor’s office with Forward CEO Adrian Aoun | E1848

469

PrayingForExits on the rush into defense tech, “innovator’s sprint,” & global VC markets | E1847

470

AI Demos! xAI’s Grok chatbot, OpenAI’s GPTs, & more! | E1846

471

Tech Earnings Breakdown: $UBER, $LYFT, $KIND with TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm | E1845

472

The Case for Adam Neumann + driverDoc's Josh Kolar on automation for trucking companies | E1844

473

Managing your treasury in 2023 | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1843

474

Uber profitable again, SBF guilty, Biden's AI EO + Motive's John Habeck | E1842

475

OpenAI DevDay!: demoing GPT-4 Turbo, "GPT Store" potential, and more with Sunny Madra | E1841

476

The hard lessons from building three startups with Maven’s Gagan Biyani | E1840

477

Giving NPCs the power of AI with Convai's Purnendu Mukherjee | E1839

478

Airtable CEO Howie Liu on pivoting from blitzscaling to profits, AI applications, and more | E1838

479

AI Demos! Cap table management platform, AI-powered job interviews, & more! | E1837

480

Loop Golf's Matt Holder on auto tee times for golfers, plus: Cruise robotaxi suspension | E1836

481

Demoing Google Suite's AI plus legal docs, detection, and more! | E1835

482

Google, Microsoft, and Snap earnings, plus the state of VC in the Middle East | E1834

483

The Trial of SBF: A deep dive with Inner City Press's Matthew Russell Lee | E1833

484

Reverse-engineering autonomy in humanoid robots with Sanctuary AI CEO Geordie Rose | E1832

485

Should Apple buy Disney? Plus: Apple's $1B blockbuster bet and more with Lon Harris | E1831

486

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel on travel industry trends, M&A, leadership, and more! | E1830

487

AI demos: ChatGPT’s UI punch ups, Google’s generative image search, and more with Sunny Madra | E1829

488

Debating personal AI hardware with Rewind AI’s Dan Siroker | E1828

489

NEWS: Ackman's SPARC, Unity CEO steps down amidst dev revolt, AI operating costs skyrocket | E1827

490

State of early-stage VC, finding PMF, Caroline Ellison testifies & more with Zach Coelius | E1826

491

Bill Gurley and Sunny Madra talk open-source vs. proprietary AI | E1825

492

NEWS: Breaking down SBF's trial and the downfall of FTX | E1824

493

NEWS: Anthropic targets $20B+ valuation, Flexport chaos & more! | E1823

494

Kayak CEO Steve Hafner on the state of travel, AI's place, hospitality trends, and more! | E1822

495

AI demos! Microsoft’s Windows Copilot, ChatGPT multimodal, Meta’s AI chatbots | E1821

496

OpenAI taps Jony Ive for “iPhone for AI," FTC/Amazon + Roam Around CEO Shie Gabbai | E1820

497

Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1819

498

The future of fintech with Plaid CEO Zach Perret | E1818

499

Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury on the future of user-centric language tools | E1817

500

Google Bard Extensions and AI demos with Sunny Madra | E1816

501

Jason Unplugged: IPO market, WaPo tactics against Dave Portnoy + Live Q&A | E1815

502

How Replit is using AI to supercharge IDEs with Amjad Masad | E1814

503

Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on the state of VC, AI's impact on startups & more! | E1813

504

Oura CEO Tom Hale on Hardware-as-a-Service, navigating ZIRP, journey to CEO & more! | E1812

505

OpenAI and Google race to launch multimodal LLM plus AI demos with Sunny Madra | E1811

506

Next Unicorns: The Path to Reaching Net Zero with Avnos CEO Will Kain | E1810

507

Transforming DTC via supply chain innovations with Boll & Branch CEO Scott Tannen | E1809

508

Expanding AI chip capabilities beyond Nvidia with Modular CEO Chris Lattner | E1808

509

Inside crypto’s wild rise and fall with “Number Go Up” author Zeke Faux | E1807

510

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on cybersecurity in the age of AI | E1806

511

Building for the circular economy and the future of shopping with Poshmark’s Manish Chandra | E1805

512

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha on “Crucible Moments” and the state of VC | E1804

513

David Sacks and Ethan Ruby on launching SaaSGrid | E1803

514

Next Unicorns: Preventing future fraud using AI with Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan | E1802

515

Building a blood-testing startup in 2023 with Vital CEO Vasu Nadella | E1801

516

Bootstrapping to IPO, product-led growth, & scaling SaaS with Atlassian's Scott Farquhar | E1800

517

Next Unicorns: Developing drugs to extend dog lifespans with Loyal CEO Celine Halioua | E1799

518

NEWS: Instacart and Klaviyo file for IPO, State of VC distributions, AI lawsuits | E1798

519

NEWS: Nvidia’s insane earnings beat, Arm’s IPO filing, and more! | E1797

520

Next Unicorns: Empowering robots to think for themselves via AI with Covariant’s Peter Chen | E1796

521

Is Nvidia overpriced? Plus, price targets, GodMode demo, and more! | E1795

522

Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on building modern AI, DeepMind origins, and much more | E1794

523

Next Unicorns: Manufacturing pharma drugs in space with Varda’s Delian Asparouhov | E1793

524

The “AI wrapper” debate, AI-powered lead gen, auto-clips, resumes, and more with Sunny Madra | E1792

525

Zillow CEO Rich Barton on branding, building in provocative industries, and more! | E1791

526

Next Unicorns: Making surgeons bionic via computer vision & AI with Proprio’s Gabriel Jones | E1790

527

AI demos + Jason invests $25K live! | E1789

528

LK-99 breakthrough with Varda’s Delian Asparouhov & Andrew McCalip | E1788

529

How AI startups can navigate the legal landscape with Adam Shevell | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

530

Next Unicorns: Unlocking the power of photonic computing with Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris | E1787

531

Whoop CEO Will Ahmed on the “Quantified Self” movement, product design & more | E1786

532

AI-generated South Park, “Holy Grails” of AI & more with Sunny Madra | E1785

533

Market dynamics, RIFs, and AI’s role in law with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

534

Next Unicorns: Building the future of healthcare communication with Abridge CEO Shiv Rao | E1784

535

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on great leadership, building winning teams, and more | E1783

536

Ryan Smith on buying the Utah Jazz, evolving Qualtrics, AI’s early days, and more | E1782

537

HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah on empowering entrepreneurs, HubSpot’s journey, and AI automation | E1781

538

Navigating SAFEs, Pay-to-Play Rounds & Risks with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

539

Next Unicorns: Bringing AI-powered solutions to medical analysis with PathAI CEO Andy Beck | E1780

540

Tim Urban on the path to AGI and trends in tech history | E1779

541

AI itineraries, newsletters, doodles, and more with Sunny Madra! | E1778

542

VenturusAI's instant MBA & Samantha Wong on identifying soon-to-explode startup markets | E1777

543

Understanding Secondary Market Transactions with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

544

Next Unicorns: Building a $1B AI Avatar Business with Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli | E1776

545

Using GPUs as leverage, MSFT beats the case, FTC fails under Khan | E1775

546

Threads, ChatGPT usage drops, and AI demos with Sunny Madra | E1774

547

Business Breakdowns: The rise and fall of “Blackberry” with Lon Harris | E1773

548

Reimagining reading with VR featuring Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf | E1772

549

Shein registers for US IPO, Trump SPAC insider trading & more | E1771

550

Creating the future of search and competing vs Google with Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas | E1770

551

Zapier Co-Founder Mike Knoop on category creation, API evolution & AI architecture | E1769

552

IRL to shut down after faking 19M users, ZIRP fraud, Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B | E1768

553

Titan tragedy, Meta removes news in Canada + Elizabeth Yin at Angel Summit | E1767

554

StoneAlgo’s Devin Jones on “Zillow for diamonds” + Mar Hershenson on the art of picking | E1766

555

EyeRate CEO Ray Weisberg on scaling from $0 to $10M + Steve Jurvetson on disruptive tech | E1765

556

Gavin Baker on AI platform shift, upside vs downside, extinction risk, Nvidia outlook & more | E1764

557

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on mod revolt, building a legendary community & more | E1763

558

How AI is making influencers bionic with Forever Voices CEO John Meyer | E1762

559

Reddit communities revolt + Brad Gerstner on state of private and public markets in 2023 | E1761

560

Apple Vision Pro, Meta’s MusicGen, Waitroom demo & more with Vinny Lingham and Sunny Madra | E1760

561

DoorDash Co-Founder Stanley Tang on founding story, lessons + First-time fund manager panel | E1759

562

How AI companions can help solve loneliness with Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda | E1758

563

Using AI to diagnose Dementia with Vistim Labs James Hamet + Jason LIVE at iConnections | E1757

564

Rory's brain vs ChatGPT, outrageous marketing, work trends and MUCH more w/ Rory Sutherland | E1756

565

RunwayML, AI Steve Jobs, & more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1755

566

How open-source & distributed models can win AI with MosaicML’s Naveen Rao | E1754

567

How generative AI is enabling hologram assistants with Looking Glass CEO Shawn Frayne | E1753

568

Breaking down Bard with Google’s Jack Krawczyk | E1752

569

Understanding the UAE startup opportunity with Brad Gerstner and Ibrahim Ajami | E1751

570

ChatGPT vs Hollywood writers and the WGA strike with Lon Harris | E1750

571

Text-to-UI demo with Galileo AI Co-founder Arnaud Benard + How to design loved products | E1749

572

Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1748

573

Demoing Google’s MusicLM, AssemblyAI, and other AI tools with Sunny Madra | E1747

574

Fireside chat with Jason Calacanis & Brad Gerstner hosted by Mubadala’s Ibrahim Ajami | E1746

575

Viral fundraising tactics with Rewind AI’s Dan Siroker + How to build a strong brand | E1745

576

Magic.dev CEO Eric Steinberger on making developers bionic | E1744

577

AI girlfriends, memories & recreations + Sam Altman testifies | E1743

578

Open-source vs. "ClosedAI," demoing new AI tools & more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1742

579

Using AI to revolutionize video game development with Scenario CEO Emmanuel de Maistre | E1741

580

Building brands and community + influencer marketing that actually works with Dee Murthy | E1740

581

Reid Hoffman on AI's "crescendo moment," regulation and real-world applications | E1739

582

Box CEO Aaron Levie breaks down Box AI and generative AI’s impact on business | E1738

583

GPT-4 web browsing, plugin demos, AI layoffs + more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1737

584

Mining asteroids with AstroForge CEO Matthew Gialich | E1736

585

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on early rejection, customer focus & AI’s future in hospitality | E1735

586

Uber earnings + using AI to revolutionize clinical trials w/ Unlearn.AI’s Charles Fisher | E1734

587

BuzzFeed vs Gawker, AI’s impact on the future of media, and more with Semafor’s Ben Smith | E1733

588

Demoing the most innovative new ChatGPT features with Sunny Madra and Vinny Lingham | E1732

589

Big Tech earnings breakdown w/TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm | E1731

590

Billy McFarland on Fyre Fest fraud, failure, hacking, & the long road back | E1730

591

AI’s Future: Opportunity, Regulation & Limits with Vinny Lingham & Sunny Madra | E1729

592

Spotify earnings, Grimes takes AI-based music approach + Cafe X CEO Henry Hu | E1728

593

Building generative AI for pitch decks with Tome CEO Keith Peiris | E1727

594

SpaceX's Starship launch, Tiger Global's 20% markdown + Ask Jason! | E1726

595

Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1725

596

Building the future of VFX and video editing with Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela | E1724

597

Google’s search engine “panic,” AI-generated hits, Coinbase considers leaving US market | E1723

598

Uizard’s Tony Beltramelli on text-to-UI & PMF + building a Notion CRM w/ Kelly Schricker | E1722

599

Hyfe’s Joe Brew on using AI to quantify coughs + Presh on generating content with ChatGPT | E1721

600

The rise of AutoGPTs and AI anxieties with Sunny Madra and Vinny Lingham | E1720

601

Copy.ai CEO Paul Yacoubian on keeping up with GPT’s rapid evolution & AI’s potential impact | E1719

602

Stanford & Google’s Westworld-like AI experiment, BloombergGPT, SF CRE collapse | E1718

603

PrayingForExits on the state of VC, ZIRP fraudsters, revolutionary product launches & more | E1717

604

YC demo day valuation tensions, how VCs can find gems, Substack's performance & more | E1716

605

Satya Patel on the state of VC, flexible investing frameworks & converting to evergreen | E1715

606

Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1714

607

Saudi Arabia discloses LP positions & SEC charges Frank founder with fraud | E1713

608

Trump, Saudi, & Adam Neumann’s obsession with cities + BioFluff CEO Martin Stübler | E1712

609

Stephen Wolfram on AI’s rapid progress & the “Post-Knowledge Work Era” | E1711

610

Crypto’s de-platforming and the balkanization of AI with Vinny Lingham | E1710

611

Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K live! | E1709

612

Alibaba's six-way split, Disney cuts its metaverse team, Substack's raise & more | E1708

613

First Citizens acquires SVB, the daunting reality of AI & Refiberd CEO Sarika Bajaj | E1707

614

Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on private markets, ZIRP impact, future of Amazon | E1706

615

TikTok CEO grilled in front of Congress, Coinbase's Wells Notice & Do Kwon arrested | E1705

616

ANGEL: Freestyle’s Jenny Lefcourt on nailing non-consensus bets and avoiding hype | E1704

617

Startup pitch competition! Jason invests $25K into one of four founders | E1703

618

Balaji’s $1M Bitcoin bet, banking crisis update, OpenAI launches GPT-4, and Jay Trading! | E1702

619

ANGEL: Laurie Yoler on investing early in Tesla, strategic partnerships, and her VC career | E1701

620

Banking crisis impact, more Meta cuts, and GPT-4 with Sunny Madra and Vinny Lingham | E1700

621

Andy Rachleff on SVB, how to evaluate VCs, market pull indicators, Wealthfront, and more | E1699

622

How ocean farming can solve world hunger with Alora CEO Luke Young | E1698

623

Silicon Valley Bank collapse recap + Wist CEO on capturing XR memories | E1697

624

EMERGENCY POD: $SVIB implodes, contagion risk, advice for founders, and what’s next? | E1696

625

Stripe to raise $6B, $SIVB drops 60%, generative AI funding | E1695

626

Ask an Angel! Startup funding overview, investor red flags, negotiating early-stage terms | E1694

627

ANGEL: Threshold VC’s Emily Melton on market distortion, healthcare investing & culture | E1693

628

Crypto climate bill resurfaces, BlocPower raises $155M + Arcadia CEO Kiran Bhatraju | E1692

629

Sequoia resigns from Citizen's board, IPO window opens, chaos at Dapper Labs | E1691

630

Apple blocks AI email app, TikTok restricts teens, Foodini’s Dylan McDonnell | E1690

631

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on moving the needle, win-first culture & managing burnout | E1689

632

Crypto Roundtable: Twitter payments integration and latest Yuga Labs NFT drop | E1688

633

ANGEL: Canaan’s Maha Ibrahim on fund sizing, distribution strategies & early VC days | E1687

634

Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on AI chatbots and the search revolution | E1686

635

WallStreetBets founder on why he's suing Reddit; Andrew Hart of Hyper; and Ok Boomer | E1685

636

Sophia Amoruso on branding, raising a fund, portfolio construction & more | E1684

637

ANGEL: Upfront’s Mark Suster on the power of alignment, setting reality, and raising capital | E1683

638

Brain-computer interfaces and the future of neural engineering with Dr. Benjamin Rapoport | E1682

639

Meta's paid tier, Bing's chatbot gone wild, Stripe's $4B bill | E1681

640

US crypto crackdown with Vinny Lingham & Sunny Madra + OK Boomer | E1680

641

ANGEL: Insight's Deven Parekh on venture tourists, cleaning cap tables & winning investments | E1679

642

Bing dodges $100B bullet & IVP's Tom Loverro on the looming startup collapse | E1678

643

ChatGPT’s alter ego and moderating AI-generated content | E1677

644

ANGEL: Surviving a down market, early VC stories & more with four-cycle investor Geoff Yang | E1676

645

Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia on early “a-ha” moments, elite design + his new startup Samara | E1675

646

Google announces Bard, Adam Neumann’s business plan, Blue Collar tech’s moment | E1674

647

The AI arms race escalates: Google’s $300M bet, Neeva’s paid search engine + So Syncd CEO | E1673

648

Google, Amazon & Apple earnings + OK Boomer with Slush CEO | E1672

649

Meta’s massive comeback, FED’s latest hike, GPT-4 rumors + Spotify earnings with Lon Harris | E1671

650

ANGEL: FirstMark’s Rick Heitzmann on shaking off the bull run, “shock absorbers,” and more | E1670

651

Instagram co-founders team up for new startup + Magic Spoon’s Gabi Lewis | E1669

652

Anthropic seeking $5B valuation, OpenAI hires 1000 contractors, Mr. Beast’s latest video | E1668

653

MSG's facial recognition software, BuzzFeed's deal with Meta, The Creator Economy and more | E1667

654

Macro picture, Bitcoin’s bull/bear case, DCG controversy & more | E1666

655

ANGEL: Venrock’s Bryan Roberts on 25 years in VC, hitting wins early, avoiding bad habits | E1665

656

DOJ sues Google over ad practices, Ticketmaster takes the stand + LA26 founders | E1664

657

Employee reactions to Google layoffs, Microsoft & OpenAI codify deal + NVIDIA's new feature | E1663

658

$NFLX earnings, Reed Hastings steps down, Google's 6% RIF & Ok Boomer with Mike O'Brien | E1662

659

Quiet hiring, Semafor’s $10M SBF buyback + M3GAN and The Last of Us with Lon Harris | E1661

660

ANGEL: Brad Feld on investing through 3 economic cycles, CEO/investor dynamics, and more | E1660

661

Getty to sue Stability AI, $MSFT to incorporate OpenAI into Azure + new climate startups | E1659

662

Tim Cook’s $50M pay cut, CEO compensation packages & Acquire.com's CEO Andrew Gazdecki | E1658

663

OpenAI’s endgame, DeepMind’s chatbot, United by Zero’s Lex Kiefhaber + OK Boomer | E1657

664

Jay Trades and SBF's Substack + Award season and Netflix's content strategy with Lon Harris | E1656

665

Slack’s troubles inside Salesforce, crypto trader gets jail time, DoNotPay’s robo-lawyer | E1655

666

Coinbase cuts 20%, Microsoft to invest $10B into OpenAI & Ascend Elements CEO Mike O’Kronley | E1654

667

"The weirdest economy ever," Noma shuts down, Jason demos ChatGPT's iOS app | E1653

668

Logan Paul & CryptoZoo’s alleged scam breakdown with Coffeezilla + Ok Boomer with Em Herrera | E1652

669

Bing to integrate ChatGPT, Microsoft’s first union + Flux Gourmet review with Lon Harris | E1651

670

Keith Rabois on 2023 macro outlook, startup valuations, founder advice, ChatGPT vs Google | E1650

671

SpaceX valued at $137B, Starlink's massive market, Shopify purges meetings | E1649

672

2023 Predictions! Startups, VC, tech, media, stocks, shutdowns, and more! | E1648

673

The 2022 TWiSTY Awards! | E1647

674

Direct listing rule change, Notion AI demo, NYE planning & more | E1646

675

Bonus episode! Tár review with Lon Harris

676

FTX & Alameda execs plead guilty, YouTube inks NFL Sunday Ticket deal + Tár review | E1645

677

Managing your cash reserves | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1644

678

The inside story of Iger's Disney return, Epic Games record-breaking fines + ClimateCamp CEO | E1643

679

Salesforce CEO questions WFH amid SaaS slowdown, OpenAI projects $1B revenue by 2024 & more | E1642

680

VCSS: Year in review + Valerie Shen of G2 Venture Partners | E1641

681

Financial info to include in your pitch deck | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1640

682

Interest rates, inflation and “getting fit” with Brad Gerstner | E1639

683

Jason interviews EatKind CEO Neetha Avalakki and ‘TWiST Mean Tweets’ with Lon Harris | E1638

684

Affirm addresses Molly & Jason + is TikTok getting banned, and Pearpop’s CEO Cole Mason | E1637

685

SBF gets arrested, The Block’s CEO gets a bag from FTX, + Walmart launches a BNPL service | E1636

686

Jason’s big night, the culture war in tech + Google Search vs ChatGPT and more | E1635

687

How to calculate "Bottom-up TAM" + Hubspot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on his new climate fund | E1634

688

Business of superhero films, James Gunn's DC reboot + OK Boomer w/Alex Banks | E1633

689

How to send effective investor updates | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1632

690

Crypto Roundtable: SBF updates, $GBTC's role, Saylor says $ETH is unregistered security | E1631

691

Ask Jason: investing in similar startups, pitch deck tips + MycoWorks Co-Founder Sophia Wang | E1630

692

Meta's ad targeting troubles, Ask Jason, Hive Social's data mishap & more | E1629

693

Slack CEO departs Salesforce, Circle cancels SPAC, SBF's links with media & regulators | E1628

694

Momentum investing in VC + Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico | E1627

695

OpenAI releases ChatGPT, a16z sunsets future.com + OK Boomer with Jack Raines | E1626

696

Reacting to SBF's ill-advised media tour + Disney's new in-house AI-based de-aging tool | E1625

697

Generative AI's potential, Spotify Wrapped + AMP Robotics Founder Matanya Horowitz | E1624

698

Apple vs Twitter, app store duopoly, YouTube's efficiency, Snap goes back to the office | E1623

699

Managing Finances in a Recession: Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn | E1622

700

Pipe's Co-Founders step down, Apple's China-based iOS update, Black Friday's BNPL boost | E1621

701

How VCs size their bets + Ben Birnbaum of TeraWatt and Keyframe | E1620

702

Zoom earnings, SaaS burnout, Amazon's $10B Alexa loss + FTX contagion with Sunny Madra | E1619

703

EMERGENCY POD! Bob Iger returns as Disney CEO | E1618

704

VC investing in a downturn & protecting founders + smart vents with Flair's Dan Meyers | E1617

705

Managing a recession, housing market insights & more with Redfin's Glenn Kelman + OK Boomer | E1616

706

Breaking down the FTX book + film rights & Michael Lewis’s involvement with Lon Harris | E1615

707

Amazon launches "Amazon Clinic" + Calibrate CEO Isabelle Kenyon on metabolic health | E1614

708

Wild news week, Bird overstates revenue, Chinese startups look to rebrand + WLITF | E1613

709

Amazon to lay off 10K employees, FTX saga update, Shopify's reverse AR platform & more | E1612

710

Understanding Corporate VC + turning methane into bitcoin w/ Nodal's Daniel Sechrest | E1611

711

FTX bankruptcy, spiciest takes, future of crypto VC, new Amazon Prime drones + OK Boomer | E1610

712

FTX fallout: Sequoia's LP letter, SBF's crisis comms + Lon Harris on Andor, $DIS earnings | E1609

713

Meta cuts 11K employees, Binance/FTX fallout + Homeward CEO Dr. Jenny Schneider | E1608

714

EMERGENCY POD: FTX sells to Binance with Vinny Lingham and Sunny Madra | E1607

715

Meta's looming layoffs & path forward, Airbnb answers concerns & more | E1606

716

Understanding capital calls, one-off SAFEs + Transaera CTO Ross Bonner | E1605

717

Airbnb earnings breakdown + Gen Z becoming adults on the internet | E1604

718

Wave of tech layoffs, Robinhood earnings, what makes a great CEO & more | E1603

719

Uber Q3 earnings, macro picture + Brinc Drones CEO Blake Resnick | E1602

720

Steve Case on "The Rise of the Rest", America's economic resiliency & more | E1601

721

Self-driving shakeup: TuSimple CEO fired & Argo AI shuts down + Divvy Homes CEO Adena Hefets | E1600

722

Strategies for investing in an overheated market, understanding warrants + Nat Bullard | E1599

723

Meta's precarious situation, $AMZN earnings breakdown, James Gunn to run DC + OK Boomer | E1598

724

$META earnings instant reaction, Apple's NFT rules, SBF backlash & more | E1597

725

$MSFT, $GOOG, $SPOT earnings breakdowns + Coco CEO Zach Rash | E1596

726

Shutterstock partners with OpenAI, Apple's new smart lock partner, Mach 9 spaceplane & more | E1595

727

Brad Gerstner's open letter to Zuck, Meta's lack of efficiency, Divvy Homes hit piece | E1594

728

Venture Debt: should your startup take it on? + Mi Terro's Robert Luo | E1593

729

YouTube’s new roadmap, OpenAI & BeReal fundraising news, Snap’s 30% drop + OK Boomer | E1592

730

Tesla + Netflix Q3 earnings, Kevin Hart's VC fund, Twitter ideas, revamping the DCEU | E1591

731

Next Unicorns evaluation + Ask Jason | E1590

732

Stability AI's $1B+ valuation, why you should start or join a startup, Roblox jumps 20% | E1589

733

Ye agrees to acquire Parler, Xi Jinping on the state of China, deglobalization & more | E1588

734

The Wing shuts down, avoiding pitfalls of success + Tesseract Energy's Alan Chang | E1587

735

VCs hiring Twitter ghostwriters, Meta's XR plan, Netflix's ad tier & more | E1586

736

SEC investigates Bored Apes, AI-generated Steve Jobs/Joe Rogan interview & more | E1585

737

TikTok planning to build US fulfillment centers + Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario | E1584

738

New worker classification test proposal, Getir in talks to acquire Gorillas & more | E1583

739

Amazon's transformation, Peloton's mistakes, VC market downturn & more with Ben Gilbert | E1582

740

Why VCs care about ownership percentage + Flowcarbon CEO Dana Gibber | E1581

741

US chip industry update, fixing education, Amazon allegations + OK Boomer | E1580

742

Ask Jason! + Streaming news with Lon Harris | E1579

743

Twitter ideas, Elizabeth Holmes trial update, universal USB-C + Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck | E1578

744

Twitter deal updates, Poshmark acquired, Liquid Death's $700M valuation & more | E1577

745

Tesla AI Day, SEC charges Kim Kardashian for unlawfully promoting token, Section 230 & more | E1576

746

How VCs decide to sell a position + Future's Jean-Louis Warnholz | E1575

747

The virtuous cycle of tech startups, Mr. Beast turns down $1B offer + OK Boomer: Taylor Bell | E1574

748

Meta's text-to-video tool, Zuck's grand plan, Vision Fund to cut staff 30% + $WBD lawsuit | E1573

749

Apple allows in-app NFT purchases + Bitcoin's role during global macro headwinds | E1572

750

Cathie Wood's new VC fund, Bill Gurley's best insights, Girls Who Code on banned books list | E1571

751

British pound crashes, Do Kwon's red notice, NASA's DART mission, TikTok nears US deal | E1570

752

Evaluating founder ambition, tools vs platforms + USV's Albert Wenger: post-capital world | E1569

753

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on navigating a downturn, innovating in compensation & more | E1568

754

DAO breakdown with Orange DAO's Ben Huh + Amazon's $11B NFL deal with Lon Harris | E1567

755

Mojo CEO Vinit Bharara on building a stock market to bet on athletes | E1566

756

Nikola lawsuit updates, Rumble business breakdown + more SPAC updates | E1565

757

Monetizing BeReal, Bogus accounts by US Military, iPhone 14 camera bug, Twilio layoffs | E1564

758

How to deal with failing startups + Team Wildfire CEO Steve Wolf on "Hurricane-as-a-Service" | E1563

759

Paid newsletter pricing disruption, Instagram Reels underperforming + OK Boomer | E1562

760

Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, Patagonia founder donates profits + Streaming consolidation | E1561

761

Crypto news: Do Kwon arrest warrant, ETH merge, Orange DAO + The Blueprint Part 10 | E1560

762

Bob Iger joins VC firm as venture partner, Twitter whistleblower hearing, KKR tokenizes fund | E1559

763

Bolt cancels $1.5B Wyre deal, $ROKU adds TikTok-style feature, Deere's self-driving tractors | E1558

764

How VCs view founders with a side hustle + Bringing ESG to VC with Joe Blair | E1557

765

Muck Rack raises $180M, Elly Health Co-Founder Cecilia Anderson + OK Boomer | E1556

766

Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & impact on VC + how Amazon can turn a profit on Rings of Power | E1555

767

Instagram to shut down Shopping, reacting to Apple's event & more + The Blueprint Part 9 | E1554

768

Jason's DTC investment thesis, Jokr looking to raise $50M, liquidation preference breakdown, witness in Elizabeth Holmes trial goes rogue | E1553

769

Raising a VC fund in public + Brilliant Planet's Raffael Jovine on the power of algae | E1552

770

Ask Jason + LAUNCH founder interviews + OK Boomer with Andrew Yeung | E1551

771

The Definitive History of VC with "Power Law" author Sebastian Mallaby | E1550

772

The Blueprint: finding & developing all-stars + Mark Gurman on Apple's AR plans | E1549

773

Twitter's failed OnlyFans-like product, OpenSea trading volume drops 99%, major FTC lawsuit | E1548

774

YC brings on Garry Tan as President, Apple's AR plans, Bored Apes at the VMAs | E1547

775

How VCs think about deploying reserves & follow-on funding + Quaise CEO Carlos Araque | E1546

776

Twitter adds podcasting, Chatter.dev Founder Pete Oxenham + OK Boomer with Danny Miranda | E1545

777

$PTON & $SNOW earnings divergence + Streaming news with Lon Harris: HBO, MoviePass & more | E1544

778

Student loan debate, Zuck copies BeReal, Twitter whistleblower + Blueprint Part 7 | E1543

779

Crypto Roundtable: Shkreli's new web3 project, ETH merge, Gensler goes after DeFi protocols | E1542

780

FTX's leaked financials, $AMZN ramps up healthcare interest + Swayed Founder Arjun Shokeen | E1541

781

How VCs evaluate pre-launch startups + Mycocycle's Joanne Rodriguez | E1540

782

Ask Jason + LegalQ founder Zeb Anderson + OK Boomer | E1539

783

Apple's new feature & potential ads business + more HBO Max layoffs & chaos | E1538

784

Reaction to Adam Neumann's $350M raise, Boom Supersonic's new deal + The Blueprint Part 6 | E1537

785

Debating Apple's return to work & Jason's WFH playbook, $META partners with $DASH & more | E1536

786

Adam Neumann raises $350M from a16z for his new startup Flow, Bay Area housing hypocrisy | E1535

787

Self-destructive traits of VCs & founders + Air Protein CEO Dr. Lisa Dyson | E1534

788

Howard Lindzon reviews Jason's portfolio & breaks down public/private investing + OK Boomer | E1533

789

$DIS earnings, Disney vs Netflix & streaming strategies with Lon Harris + Ephemeral Tattoos | E1532

790

State of the crypto market, Tornado Cash blacklisted, $COIN Q2 + The Blueprint Part 5 | E1531

791

VC market overview, Vision Fund impact, Amazon's core businesses & more with Acquired | E1530

792

SoftBank's Vision Fund loses $21B+, DTC brands struggle + NutriSense CEO Alex Skryl | E1529

793

Why some VCs won't invest in first-time founders + $369B carve-out for climate/energy | E1528

794

$COIN partners with $BLK, $AMZN acquires iRobot for $1.7B, Jay Trading update + OK Boomer | E1527

795

$WBD shakeup, streaming earnings, Locket raises $12.5M, Lina Khan/FTC sues Meta | E1526

796

YC reduces S22 batch by 40%, $HOOD RIF, $MSTR CEO change, $ABNB earnings + Blueprint Part 4 | E1525

797

$UBER & $PINS Q2 earnings + customer-centric primary care with The Lanby's Chloe Harrouche | E1524

798

TikTok takes on Spotify, startup advice + US housing market w/ Redfin & Divvy Homes CEOs | E1523

799

How VC diligence works at different stages + Fion's Sudarshan Sridharan on wildfire tech | E1522

800

$AMZN & $AAPL earnings, $META investors losing faith, Jay Trading + OK Boomer with Nate O'Brien | E1521

801

Revolutionizing podcasting + standards vs. innovation with Anchor Co-Founder Mike Mignano | E1520

802

How to supercharge your network + $GOOG & $MSFT earnings & $SHOP layoffs with Deirdre Bosa | E1519

803

Solving prescription drug pricing in the US with Cost Plus Drugs & Capital RX CEOs | E1518

804

$NFLX stops sharing, $SNAP Q2 earnings, $COIN alleged insider trading with Alex Wilhelm | E1517

805

Telling founders "no," Board meeting etiquette (VC School), + Michael Luciani | E1516

806

Ben Narasin on raising a new VC fund in a down market, + Natalie Barbu of Rella | E1515

807

$AMZN acquiring One Medical, The Snyder Cut bot army, + maybe some Jay Trading | E1514

808

Jay Trading: $NFLX Q2 earnings, The Blueprint E2: when to quit your job, + more | E1513

809

Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius: practical advice for founders and investors in a downturn | E1512

810

Andy Jassy’s lobbying efforts, small US cities enticing remote workers, Phaidra Series A | E1511

811

Taking the leap on valuation, strategic retreats (VC School), + more | E1510

812

$AMZN considers dropping “Basics”, FCC Commissioner Carr on banning TikTok + more | E1509

813

Jay Trading, Stripe valuation cut, $NFLX ads, $PTON outsourcing, + more | E1508

814

The Blueprint E1: Branding yourself, + Jeffrey Pfeffer on the 7 Rules of Power | E1507

815

3AC liquidation chaos, Taibbi’s USDC deep dive, startup employee advice + more | E1506

816

Twitter deal called off, Uber leaks, + Apple Car setbacks | E1505

817

Molly’s first 6 months as an investor (VC School), + EV battery recycling | E1504

818

Frost Giant CEO Tim Morten on gaming business models, Esports & more | E1503

819

Balwani found guilty, Crypto crash updates, + Turkey’s rare earth discovery | E1502

820

Crypto Updates: Voyager files bankruptcy, Celsius pays debt, + Jason Q&A | E1501

821

"Minions" record-breaking viral strategy, TikTok algo, reframing semiconductors & energy | E1500

822

VC School: What's a venture scale business + Matt Duesterberg of OhmConnect | E1499

823

Crypto crash updates, Sequoia’s structure, $ZM product expansion, Starlink & more | E1498

824

FTX buys BlockFi for $25M, Sequoia raising $2.25B, AI Umpires for MLB, Substack layoffs | E1497

825

Downtown Josh Brown & Michael Batnick on Disney+, Peloton, Knicks, podcasting, markets, & more | E1496

826

SBF buys the crypto dip, hedge funds short Tether, VC funding down, flying nuclear cruise mockup | E1495

827

Digital surveillance risks post-Roe v. Wade ruling with Legal Voice’s Kim Clark + PE firm acquires Zendesk for $10.2B | E1494

828

How to co-invest with other firms (VC School) + Electric Sea Gliders: REGENT Co-Founder Billy Thalheimer | E1493

829

Praying For Exits on Markets, Crypto, Startup Valuations + Anisha Sunkerneni of Cyphr VC | E1492

830

Obi-Wan finale + Healthcare’s hidden money pit with Capital RX CEO AJ Loiacono | E1491

831

TikTok data security, the Chinese surveillance state, Amazon running out of warehouse workers | E1490

832

NFT NYC, Solend takeover, Why Non-Finance use cases are the key to Crypto, Magic Eden & more with Vinny Lingham | E1489

833

When to take a meeting (VC School) + Fungi Flour: Hyfé Foods Founder Michelle Ruiz (Climate) | E1488

834

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell responds to NYT hit piece and breaks down the state of crypto + Alexander Olesen CEO of Babylon Micro-Farms | E1487

835

Apple & Disney’s sports streaming strategy, Facebook’s plan to be TikTok, Obi-Wan, Star Trek | E1486

836

YouTube shorts vs. TikTok, Crypto contagion, Twitch ad changes, China found aliens? | E1485

837

Coinbase lays off ~18%, EU crypto regulation, $NFLX & $ROKU ad-tech talks, Hallow prayer app, Prey laptop security | E1484

838

Crypto drops ~$200B, Celsius freezes, Binance’s BTC pause, Google AI sentience, Magic Spoon: DTC isn’t dead | E1483

839

How to value startups (VC School) + Creating Diamonds from Air with Aether’s Ryan Shearman (Climate) | E1482

840

Disney’s ambitious streaming goals with Lon Harris + Dressd Founder Capri Wheaton | E1481

841

Twitter bots & Apple BNPL with Deirdre Bosa + Prediction markets with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour | E1480

842

Amazon’s Dave Clark joins Flexport, Bird layoffs, Twitter’s bring-your-own algo, Multiverse, Ken Griffin gets into crypto | E1479

843

Why BuzzFeed fell 40%, EU mandates USB-C, Lab-grown ear transplants, Tom Brady’s Series B | E1478

844

Apple’s new releases, Twitter bots, Didi returns, Bad actors on Binance + Michael Shellenberger’s vision for California | E1477

845

Markups & markdowns (VC School) + Coral Regeneration with Coral Vita Co-founder Sam Teicher (Climate) | E1476

846

Coinbase & Loom rescind job offers (strategies for managers & workers during a downturn) + OK Boomer: Mehak Vohra of Skillbank | E1475

847

Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta + This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris: Obi-Wan Kenobi | E1474

848

ESG fraud, Stripe & Reddit markdowns, Remote productivity + DroneUp Founder Tom Walker | E1473

849

NYT’s Glossier hit piece, VC winters, Activist CEOs and Podcast live events with Acquired’s David Rosenthal | E1472

850

Bolt layoffs, DroneUp, Lunar Outpost, $4.5B crypto fund, Ape theft + Diagram’s Jordan Singer | E1471

851

The cost of CEOs ignoring mental health with Bonobos Founder Andy Dunn | E1470

852

Solving our biggest problems, Cerebral’s fast & loose telehealth prescriptions, Jack leaves Twitter Board | E1469

853

Snap drops 40%, Layoffs at Gorillas & Klarna, Adam Neumann's new startup, Coinbase using Principles | E1468

854

All-In Summit recap, Argo debuts AV test cars in Miami/ATX, $AMZN to sublease 10M+ square feet | E1467

855

Proof of Impact CEO Fleur Heyns on meaningful metrics for measuring environmental impact (This Week in Climate Startups) | E1466

856

Privateer Space CEO Alex Fielding: cleaning up space junk with Steve Wozniak + Behind the scenes of working for Jason | E1465

857

Fixing a broken system - Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna on patient-centric maternal care | E1464

858

Accelerating leadership - Chief Co-Founder & CEO Carolyn Childers on raising $100M Series B, building a women's executive network and more | E1463

859

Bitcoin payments on the Lightning Network with Strike's Jack Mallers | E1462

860

SaaS multiple compression, downturn outlook & advice for new VCs with Jason Lemkin of SaaStr | E1461

861

Women in venture capital + SpringEats.com CEO Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner (Climate) | E1460

862

SBF buys 7.6% $HOOD stake, SoftBank’s $13B loss, Twitter exec layoffs & deal update + Nicole Ruiz from Compound VC | E1459

863

Sundar Pichai, tech crash, crypto, journalism and more with CNBC's Deirdre Bosa | E1458

864

Airbnb's category search, Coinbase's new disclosure + Facebook exits podcasting with Ashley Carman | E1457

865

Terra UST stablecoin unpegged with Bennett Tomlin + High growth tech’s runway: $COIN, $SQ, $ZM, $TWLO, $SHOP & $PTON | E1456

866

Dara sets the tone for Uber's next push, Jason's market prediction, Apple's ML director departs, Internet affordability & more | E1455

867

Side investing (VC School) + Stripe's Nan Ransohoff: Frontier carbon removal | 1454

868

Twitter's new Birdwatch moderation/annotation feature + OK Boomer: Flapjack's Patrick McDonnell | E1453

869

Stripe launches Plaid competitor, Cameo layoffs, Elon raises $7B + Streaming news with Lon Harris | E1452

870

Live Show Preview: Wednesday May 4

871

Tech reactions to Roe vs. Wade leak + $UBER, $LYFT and $ABNB earnings | E1451

872

Meta's VR plans with The Information's Sylvia Varnham O'Regan + SEC strengthens its crypto enforcement team | E1450

873

Bolt's struggles with The Information's Malique Morris + How Yuga Labs' mint sent Ethereum Gas 120X + Gravity Sketch | E1449

874

How to manage competing portfolio companies (VC School) + Energy Impact Partners' Shayle Kann (Climate) | E1448

875

$AMZN & $AAPL earnings, Snap's drone, China softens on tech, AirBnB goes nomad + Landon from Inside | E1447

876

WeCrashed & Severance finales w/ Lon Harris + Twitter follower changes w/ The Verge's Corin Faife | E1446

877

Archegos founder arrested, Bolt sued by Authentic Brands, $GOOG & $MSFT earnings, Apple sells repair parts, EV Corvette | E1445

878

Jack's Twitter take & employee reactions, Medical NFTs, Hopin's $200M founder secondary sale | E1444

879

Twitter accepts Elon's buyout offer, EU's new algo rule, Pipedream Labs: Hyperloop for package delivery | E1443

880

VC School: Deal Memos + Sphere CEO Alex Wright-Gladstein (Climate) | E1442

881

Twitter funding secured, Boring Co. raises $675M, Amazon's $1B VC fund, Ackman's $400M loss + The Lunar Society: Dwarkesh Patel | E1441

882

TSLA earnings + Streaming: WeCrashed & Severance review, CNN+ demise, Netflix’s future | 1440

883

Netflix earnings breakdown, Kushner’s $3B pitch deck, CNN+ on pause, Grubhub for sale | E1439

884

Jack's candid Twitter takes, FB invests in African internet, Regent's electric Seaglider, Better.com layoffs | E1438

885

Q1 venture capital review, Twitter breaks, BeReal's new take on social & more | E1437

886

Twitter's takeover defense, Meta's AR project with The Verge's Alex Heath + Wordcab's Aleks Smechov + OK Boomer: Rachel Cantor | E1436

887

Elon offers to take $TWTR private at $43B + Autonomous car drives away from police | E1435

888

Meta's 47.5% take rate + Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania: onboarding the globe to crypto | E1434

889

Shopify Board proposes share restructuring + The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, Why American Teens Are So Sad | E1433

890

Elon no longer joining $TWTR board, Breslow's Instacart case-study, NYT tells reporters to reduce time on Twitter | E1432

891

Investing in down rounds (VC School) + The Lightsmith Group Co-Founder Jay Koh (Climate) | E1431

892

BONUS - Jason on This Week in Startups Australia

893

Macro insights with Rose Technology CEO Alex Campbell + TCG Crypto's Gaby Goldberg | E1430

894

Portfolio construction, Sequoia's transition & Fast with Acquired.FM + The Dropout: This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris | E1429

895

Uber travel, OpenAI illustrator, Edit button, CNN+ review + Dune Analytics CEO Fredrik Haga | E1428

896

FB vs. Apple on AR and Ads, Twitter's Future, Conflict, Crypto Regulation with Antonio Garcia Martinez & Zach Coelius | E1427

897

Elon buys ~9% stake in Twitter + Freestyle Capital's Dave Samuel | E1426

898

Inbound vs. outbound deal flow (VC School) + Jason Jacobs of My Climate Journey | E1425

899

GoPuff & Fast trimming staff + Bradley Tusk on tech regulation + Glimpse Co-founder Akash Raju | E1424

900

NFT exclusive restaurant: FlyFish Club CEO David Rodolitz + Reviewing We Crashed & The Dropout with Lon Harris | E1423

901

Facebook funding anti-TikTok lobbyists with Taylor Lorenz + SEC SPAC crackdown, Fast vs. Bolt | E1422

902

$625M Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack, $TWLO insider trading, Subject's learning platform, $HOOD extends trading hours | E1421

903

Oscars recap, FTX investors don't hold board seats, Apple working on hardware subscriptions | E1420

904

Understanding non-dilutive fundraising options + Continuum Ag Founder Mitchell Hora | E1419

905

Teenage hacking phenom allegedly caught, Molly's Hall of Fame induction & OK Boomer | E1418

906

Streaming news! Breaking down WeCrashed E1-3 & The Dropout E5 with Lon Harris | E1417

907

Katie Haun's $1.5B web3 fund, Yuga Labs worth $4B, Apple's BNPL play + ChroniFI's Ben Miller | E1416

908

How Apple can win podcasting, Bezos' leadership, MBAs raising search funds & FDNY robodogs | E1415

909

Sequoia debuts Arc, SEC considering climate disclosures, Disney CEO fallout & more | E1414

910

Super Pro Rata (VC Sunday School) + ClimateCheck Founder Cal Inman (Climate) | E1413

911

NEWS: $BABA & $TCEHY layoffs, Google's AR purchase, $APE coin; OK Boomer: Smirk | E1412

912

Reacting to Super Pumped (Uber) & The Dropout (Theranos) with Lon Harris +OneShop CEO Nick McHenry | E1411

913

Spotify x Barcelona, ex-Disney CEO joins Genies, AMC gold mine + D.A. Wallach: music and bio-investing | Angel S6 E10 | E1410

914

Ex-FB Diem team builds Aptos blockchain, Metamask parent ConsenSys raises $450M, Mojo's athlete betting market, Zero Grocery shutdown | E1409

915

Blue Origin picks Pete, NYT launches Telegram channel, Clearview AI in Ukraine, Semiconductor pains | E1408

916

How Big Funds Change the Startup Ecosystem (VC Sunday School) + Climate: Include Ventures' Taj Ahmad Eldridge | E1407

917

$RIVN, Biden on TikTok & Crypto, $PTON + Countdown Capital’s Jai Malik + Josh from Party Round | E1406

918

Love.com, Lessons from Bain Crypto launch + Redfin Founder & CEO Glenn Kelman | E1405

919

Apple's new Mac + Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, driverless service in SF, the Origin (zero-emission shared vehicle) | E1404

920

Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital: global growth, partnering with legendary companies and the evergreen fund | E1403

921

Alumni Ventures charged by SEC + What Germany got wrong about nuclear power with Mark Nelson | E1402

922

How much money is too much? (VC Sunday School) + Climate: Andrew Beebe of Obvious Ventures | E1401

923

Google ends WFH, $SNOW earnings + Stillmark's Alyse Killeen Angel S6 E7 + Pallet CEO Kai Han | E1400

924

Cana CEO Matt Mahar on launching a "Replicator for beverages," turning a product into a platform, working with The Production Board and more | E1399

925

Apple pauses RU sales, Ford splits-off EVs + How Facebook killed Joe Speiser's $100M business | E1398

926

Tech takes action against Russia, Backbone's mobile gaming device + Joel Greenblatt from Gotham Capital | E1397

927

Web 3 is Going Great with Molly White | E1396

928

What investors mean when they are "waiting for a lead" (VC Sunday School) + Seth Bannon of 50 Years | E1395

929

DHH on Basecamp's painful evolution, Bitcoin, Revitalizing internet discourse + Lumanu CEO Tony Tran | E1394

930

Critical cyber attacks of the last decade + How Jason Calacanis grew the Launch Fund: Angel S6 E7 | E1393

931

Kanye's genius business model, Platform dependency risks, Pipe enters the movie biz + AirPals' Joshe Ordonez | E1392

932

Coinbase's mutable messaging, Revitalizing Peloton and High-growth companies poised for a comeback | E1391

933

From PM to GP: Roach Capital's Fahd Ananta | Angel S6 E6 + OK Boomer: Dive Chat | E1390

934

Spotify's ad-tech acquisitions to take on YouTube with The Verge's Ashley Carman + Founder University Pitches | E1389

935

Keith Rabois of Founders Fund + AirBnB's earnings & evolving customer base, SF BOE recall | E1388

936

Do startup employee stock options need an overhaul? Softbank's failed Arm sale + Growth University's Craig Zingerline | E1387

937

Crypto's Super Bowl blitz, Joby's asian air-taxi partnerships, Affirm's earnings & BNPL growing pains | E1386

938

VC Sunday School: first-tier investor behavior + Climate: Dangerous Ventures' Mike Lin | E1385

939

Rapid Disney+ growth, Predicting preference with Qloo's Alex Elias, OK Boomer: Zehra Naqvi's Z-list | E1384

940

Peloton's new CEO + Cake Ventures' Monique Woodard Angel S6 E5 | E1383

941

$3.6B crypto hack recovered + Segment co-founder Peter Reinhardt's next bet: Charm Industrial | E1382

942

Peter Thiel departs FB board, John Foley steps down at Peloton, Should Amazon spin off AWS? + Startup of the Day: Island | E1381

943

Spotify's saga continues, $FB warns of EU exit, GoFundMe's protest refund, Peloton's suitors | E1380

944

John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins with Ryan Panchadsaram + VC Sunday School: cap table management | E1379

945

NYC delivery wars, Cruise gives driverless rides in SF + Gopuff Co-CEO Rafael Ilishayev | E1378

946

Full $FB earnings breakdown, NFT company violates music IP + Behind Genius' Paige Finn: Angel S6 E4 | E1377

947

All-In’s hijacked feed, Google’s earnings breakdown, Jason’s legendary iPad troll | E1376

948

Playstation's $3.2B Bungie acquisition, Metafy gaming tutoring, Shopify CEO joins Coinbase Board of Directors | E1375

949

Breaking down Ryan Breslow's YC critique + Spotify's solution & Joe Rogan's response | E1374

950

VC Sunday School: startup investing in a down market + Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse Ventures | E1373

951

Packy McCormick’s Not Boring parlay: Angel S6 E3 + Producer Rachel visits Miami Hack Week | E1372

952

$TSLA earnings breakdown & 2022 IPOs to watch with TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm | E1371

953

MSFT adds $10B, Stripe mafia memes, Spotify: platform or publisher, Scratchpad case-study | E1370

954

TikTok vs. YouTube, Bolt CEO calls Stripe & YC "Mob Bosses," Culdesac, Anduril wins $1B contract | E1369

955

Comparing 2022 to the Dot-Com bubble + Activist investor challenges Peloton leadership | E1368

956

Sunday VC School: how investors work together + Prime Movers Lab's Ramez Naam | E1367

957

Apple AR headset scoops with Mark Gurman + Campbell Baron: Gen Z startup content creator | E1366

958

Google AR, Peloton pullback + David Friedberg: Cana, the first molecular beverage printer | E1365

959

FTC antitrust revision, 5G rollout pause + David Rosenthal's $2.8M fund: Angel S6 E2 | E1364

960

Full breakdown of Microsoft acquiring Activision-Blizzard for ~$70B+ | E1363

961

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: victory through taking ownership, increasing velocity & cultivating talent | E1362

962

Oath Keepers indicted from Signal messages, U.S. House subpoenas tech platforms + Alex Masmej: selling a personal token | E1361

963

1M fewer college students: is it a problem? + Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius | E1360

964

$140B streaming wars 2022 budget, Warren's bad "Big Grocery" take + Mac Conwell: Angel S6 E1 | E1359

965

Y Combinator's New Deal, Turo S-1 + Deep Sentinel CEO Dave Selinger: Human-in-the-loop security cameras | E1358

966

Tech pullback, SEC considers tightening startup investing regulations, Apple XR headset leaks | E1357

967

Sunday VC School: valuation vs. traction matrix + Climate: New Energy Nexus CEO Danny Kennedy | E1356

968

Kazakh Bitcoin mining outage, Synthetic actors, Memes + Ben Awad: Gen Z Programming Mentor | E1355

969

GETTR & social media moderation, NYT to acquire The Athletic + Axie Infinity's Jeff Zirlin on NFT gaming | E1354

970

OpenSea raises $300M, VW & Toyota commit $170B to EVs, China's strangled tech sector, New media | E1353

971

Elizabeth Holmes is guilty, Amazon wins over socialists, Biden sanctions China | E1352

972

How JOKR lost $159 per order, rising startup valuations, OpenSea freezes stolen NFTs, Web 2 CEOs troll Web 3 | E1351

973

The 2021 TWISTY Awards: best guest, most awkward moment, best chemistry & more! | E1350

974

Web3 wars & Rivian Q3 earnings with our new co-host Molly Wood! | E1349

975

Praying For Exits: the satirist of venture capital | E1348

976

Melania Trump’s NFT, Reddit to go public + Twitter’s Tony Haile: news & product evolution | E1347

977

mRNA cancer treatment, Google’s vax policy, Better.com CEO “taking time off” + Founder roundtable: PaidBack, Wearwell, SupporTrends | E1346

978

What Elizabeth Holmes’s prosecution missed, Nike buys NFT studio, Tether, the power of equity, ISS tourism | E1345

979

Is Peloton undervalued? + Rad Power Bikes CEO Mike Radenbaugh + Succession recap, All-in | E1344

980

Guess the fake startup + Founders of Jenni.AI, Wearloom, Track, Llama Life + How to hire Gen Z | E1343

981

Armstrong & Tether skip crypto hearings, Adele’s NFT resale solution + Startup Checklist E10 | E1342

982

Art Basel recap (Beeple, JUUL, Cathie Wood) + reacting to Better.com’s leaked layoffs clip | E1341

983

What is a Vibe Capitalist? Bedrock’s Geoff Lewis on investing, crypto, city-states, defense & AI | E1340

984

Crypto accounting for startups | Finance Basics with Kruze Consulting’s Scott Orn | E1339

985

Square becomes Block, Spotify Wrapped’s genius, $GRAB debut + Founders of Fathom, Deft & Krepling | E1338

986

Podcasting, crypto and favorite finds with Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal | E1337

987

Twitter bans sharing “private media” + Startup Checklist: How to raise capital | E1336

988

Twitter’s new CEO, Mr. Beast’s record-breaking Squid Game + Haus’ Helena Price Hambrecht | E1335

989

End of year startup accounting checklist | Finance Basics with Kruze Consulting’s Scott Orn | E1334

990

Zoom’s revenue tops $1B, valuation falls + Startup Checklist: how to prepare for fundraising | E1333

991

Turner Novak: Turning memes into a $10M VC fund | E1332

992

Nikola Motors update, El Salvador launches $1B bond to build “Bitcoin City” on a volcano | E1331

993

A DAO bids $40M on the Constitution, Startup Checklist: Operational best practices, Gen Z VCs | E1330

994

Tarantino sued over NFTs + Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan: YouTube, Entrepreneurship, Investing | E1329

995

Why Sam Lessin is using the VC model to invest in individuals + Jason funds a startup on air | E1328

996

Ohio sues FB + Bradley Tusk “The Fixer,” Uber, startups navigating politics, mobile voting | E1327

997

How to hire anywhere in the world (legally) | Finance Basics with Kruze Consulting’s Scott Orn | E1326

998

The greatest CNBC hit of all time, YouTube hides dislikes + Ready Games CEO David Bennahum | E1325

999

Breaking down Rivian’s IPO & $100B valuation + DAO deep dive with OpenLaw’s Aaron Wright | E1324

1000

Coinbase Q3 earnings breakdown + Startup Checklist: Crafting a brand & knowing your market | E1323

1001

$RBLX earnings, Jetson ONE personal aircraft + Oculus game dev Ryan Engle, creator of Pro Putt | E1322

1002

How to simplify diligence & avoid fraud | Finance Basics with Kruze Consulting’s Scott Orn | E1321

1003

Tech Earnings: $UBER, $ABNB, $PTON + OK Boomer: Gen Z joins the workforce | E1320

1004

Building a Great Team: Startup Checklist E5 | E1319

1005

Zillow falls after iBuying collapse, Biden Admin’s stablecoin report + LeadIQ’s Mei Siauw | E1318

1006

Bytedance bans 996 + Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani: The 100x fund | E1317

1007

Apple privacy updates cost social media giants $10B + BetterBrand’s Aimee Yang | E1316

1008

Facebook’s new name + DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg: the privacy search engine | E1315

1009

Media employees battling “back to work” orders + Startup Checklist E4: Building a Great Product | E1314

1010

Sequoia’s new structure, $HOOD and $TWTR earnings + Bolt’s Ryan Breslow: 4-day work week | E1313

1011

Facebook’s Q3 earnings breakdown: revenue, user growth, rumored rebrand + Italic’s Jeremy Cai | E1312

1012

Growth & Retention: Why Subscription is the Holy Grail | Customer Basics with Salesforce’s Tiffani Bova | E1311

1013

Trump SPAC, WeWork SPAC, GitLab IPO w/ Eric Newcomer + Quick Commerce w/Matt Newberg | E1310

1014

Inflation warnings and hedge strategy, Bitcoin ETF, Hindenburg’s Tether bounty + Startup Checklist E3 | E1309

1015

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: the next $60B, Engage, Segment acquisition & more + Who actually uses Oculus? | E1308

1016

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on USDC, Tether & more + Jason reacts to Apple’s new M1 chips & MacBooks | E1307

1017

How to manage customer relationships | Customer Basics with Salesforce’s Tiffani Bova | E1306

1018

Coinbase chases NFT billions + Peter Thiel “The Contrarian” with author Max Chafkin | E1305

1019

Is Netflix over cancel culture? + Startup Checklist: Choosing a Business Model | E1304

1020

US inherits China’s Bitcoin Mining Dynasty + Jacob Helberg on the “New Cold War” with China | E1303

1021

Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on scaling the blockchain to warp speed | E1302

1022

How to understand customer engagement | Customer Basics with Salesforce’s Tiffani Bova | E1301

1023

Tether’s hidden billions with Bloomberg’s Zeke Faux + Startup Checklist E1 | E1300

1024

Fantasy startup investing NFTs + former Tesla CTO JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials | E1299

1025

FB Whistleblower’s Senate testimony + Scorpion Capital shorts Ginkgo Bioworks, claims fraud | E1298

1026

How to create great customer experience | Customer Basics with Salesforce’s Tiffani Bova | E1297

1027

Facebook’s whistleblower reveal & major outage + reacting to OZY media CEO on Today Show | E1296

1028

Coinbase CEO reflects on “mission” manifesto + Kettle’s Nat Manning on fire insurance | E1295

1029

Amazon’s AI driver supervisors, OZY media fallout, rising FEMA flood insurance, OpenScouting | E1294

1030

Google’s game-changing ad policy + Michael Dell on “Play Nice But Win,” stories from building a computing giant | E1293

1031

OZY Media’s deception, VC retirement, Clubhouse’s monetization problem with The Verge’s Ashley Carman & more | E1292

1032

Facebook puts Instagram Kids on pause, Bevy’s high-profile firing + Squarespace’s Anthony Casalena | E1291

1033

News! China bans crypto transactions (again), Zillow & iBuyers impacting Real Estate + Ask Jason | E1290

1034

News! EU Mandates USB-C, Facebook Files, China RE, Apple leaks, Stonkfluencers, SaaS Pod | E1289

1035

Apple Maps 3-D update, SEC Chair tips off coming crypto regulation + Pacaso’s Austin Allison | E1288

1036

Apple launches iCloud Private Relay + Framework’s Nirav Patel on customizable laptops | E1287

1037

ByteDance limits daily app time for kids in China + Next Unicorns: Orbital Insight’s Kevin O’Brien | E1286

1038

Head of Instagram comments on teen impact, Jay-Z’s NFT lawsuit + Sourcegraph’s Quinn Slack | E1285

1039

Rapid Fire News: App Annie fraud, Instagram’s negative impact, Discord valued at $15B & more | E1284

1040

OpenSea admits employee was front-running featured NFTs + Goldbelly CEO Joe Ariel on food e-commerce | E1283

1041

“Amazon Unbound” author Brad Stone on the mind of Bezos, the future of Amazon & more | E1282

1042

Growth stocks, Inflation impacts, SPACs & more with Beth Kindig & Knox Ridley from I/O Fund | E1281

1043

News! Fireproof homes, Amazon’s college plan, Facebook copies Snap, Notion Acquires Automate.io & more | E1280

1044

Coinbase battles SEC over Lend + How DeFi interest rates work with Genesis’ Matt Ballensweig | E1279

1045

BAYC at Sotheby’s, Loot, Tether Canada ban + 8VC’s Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, China, Cicero | E1278

1046

Adrian Grenier: launching a new fund + FounderU: balancing product vision & customer feedback | E1277

1047

Next Unicorns: Miso Robotics’ Mike Bell, $3 an hour fry cooks + MorningBrew’s Dan Toomey on TikTok | E1276

1048

Bored Ape Madness with The Infatuation’s Andrew Steinthal + Breaking into VC with Nicole DeTommaso | E1275

1049

Elizabeth Holmes Theranos fraud trial kickoff + Blokable’s Aaron Holm: how to scale housing | E1274

1050

CCP closes foreign IPO loophole + Audius’ Roneil Rumburg: decentralized project crash course | E1273

1051

HeadSpin accused of $80M fraud, housing startup irks NIMBYs + Not Boring’s Packy McCormick | E1272

1052

Rapid Fire News: OnlyFans reverses course, Circle to clean up USDC reserves, Warby Parker S-1 | E1271

1053

Rapid Fire News: Facebook “cleans up their house,” Tyga takes on OnlyFans, Jack Ma vs. CCP | E1270

1054

Rapid fire news: OnlyFans bans sexual conduct + Boston Dynamics, Disney & Tesla bet big on robots | E1269

1055

Robinhood earnings breakdown, Amazon launching department stores + Mark Suster deep dives VC | E1268

1056

Noodlegate, the end of cancel culture? + Next Unicorns: OpenGov CEO Zac Bookman | E1267

1057

Casey Newton’s Superhuman misfire, Apple’s backdoor, 5G crypto network, WhatsApp’s Taliban problem | E1266

1058

Next Unicorns: Splice CEO Steve Martocci, building the Github for music | E1265

1059

How to secure follow-on investment for your startup (FounderU) + Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius | E1264

1060

How to come up with a startup idea (FounderU) + Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius | E1263

1061

Nick Kokonas of Tock & Alinea, flipping the low-margin restaurant model | E1262

1062

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on the current state and future of the US housing market | E1261

1063

Bootstrapping vs. taking Venture Capital (FounderU) + Ask An Angel with Zach Coelius | E1260

1064

How to a Grow Consumer SaaS App to 225K Paying Customers – Next Unicorns: Fitbod CEO Allen Chen | E1259

1065

Creating a new venture fund: formation, follow-on strategies & more with Acquired | E1258

1066

News! Robinhood/Duolingo IPOs, Big Tech earnings, China & more with TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm | E1257

1067

Nikola’s Trevor Milton indicted for fraud, Robinhood IPO + GRIN CEO Brandon Brown | E1256

1068

Youtube vs. Netflix, Google’s $230B run rate + Next Unicorns: OpenSea’s Devin Finzer on NFTs | E1255

1069

Rapid Fire News: China’s techlash continues, Tesla’s incredible Q2 earnings, Tether holders move to USDC & more | E1254

1070

Emergency Pod! Tether executives facing DOJ bank fraud probe (via Bloomberg) | E1253

1071

Dfinity’s ICP crypto complaint, Snap/Twitter earnings, China’s e-learning crackdown & more | E1252

1072

China punishes Didi, Twitter’s new feature, UAE makes it rain + Do Kwon of Terraform Labs | E1251

1073

Reacting to Tether’s CNBC interview, Netflix earnings + Vincent’s Slava Rubin on alt assets | E1250

1074

Bezos goes to space, Robinhood IPO, USDC attestation + Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley | E1249

1075

Rapid Fire News: AI voices after death, DOJ investigates Lordstown Motors, COVID adaptation | E1248

1076

Rapid Fire News: FB’s right-wing algo, Tether update, giving Cuba internet, Powell on stable coins & more | E1247

1077

The Next Unicorns: Adena Hefets CEO of Divvy Homes, forging a new path to home ownership | E1246

1078

Education’s war on excellence, AWS atrophy, France fines Google + AppHarvest’s Josh Lessing | E1245

1079

China cracks down on US IPOs, winning founder qualities, Ask Jason: accelerators, investing | E1244

1080

Biden targets big corporations + Tether Investigation with Bitfinex’ed | E1243

1081

Nextdoor SPAC breakdown, Pelosi trading options + Morning Brew’s Alex Lieberman | E1242

1082

Barclays blocks Binance, China pauses Didi downloads + Steezy CEO Evan Zhou | E1241

1083

Emergency Pod! Robinhood files to go public: S-1 breakdown | E1240

1084

How to nail Monthly Investor Updates (FounderU) + Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly | E1239

1085

Sam Altman’s “Worldcoin,” Facebook hits $1T + Alchemy’s Nikil Viswanathan on “AWS for Blockchain” | E1238

1086

News! Peter Thiel’s $5B Roth IRA, Black creators strike on TikTok, BuzzFeed SPAC, Microsoft goes anti-Apple PLUS Ask Jason | E1237

1087

The power of the SOD/EOD plus Bill Maris on early Google stories, origins of GV, bioterrorism & more | E1236

1088

China moves crypto mining to US + Overtime’s Dan Porter on GenZ basketball league & network | E1235

1089

What startups need to succeed | Scaling Your Startup S2 E10 with Intercom’s Des Traynor | E1234

1090

GameStop poaches Amazon execs, Streaming stalls + Genies CEO Akash Nigam on Avatars & NFTs | E1233

1091

Tether: Crypto’s Black Swan? Plus Alternative Asset Roundtable featuring the founders of Masterworks, Fundrise & Rally Rd | E1232

1092

Zymergen CEO Josh Hoffman on Biofacturing PLUS Founder U Startup Math | E1231

1093

News! The cult of Bitcoin maximalists, Bezos is going to space, & Facebook’s smartwatch | E1230

1094

Customer Success | Scaling Your Startup S2E9 with Statusphere’s Kristen Wiley & Techmate’s Nicole Beals | E1229

1095

Aurora CEO Chris Urmson on building the roadmap to fully autonomous vehicles | E1228

1096

Apple’s WFH blowback, navigating current startup valuations PLUS Sugar’s Fatima Dicko | 1227

1097

Katerra’s collapse, Bill Ackman’s SPAC merger plus Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | E1226

1098

Launching Twitter Blue with Twitter’s Head of Product Kayvon Beykpour | E1225

1099

Low-Burn | Scaling Your Startup S2 E8 with Neyborly’s Ben Seidl & Xendoo’s Lil Roberts | E1224

1100

Citizen App’s bounty blunder, “digital bodyguard” service + Coinbase launches “Fact Check” | E1223

1101

Acquired.FM’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on Berkshire vs. Bitcoin, Amazon acquires James Bond IP, and more! | E1222

1102

Culture | Scaling Your Startup S2 E7: 15five’s David Hassell & Balloon’s Amanda Greenberg | E1221

1103

US initiates crypto regulation, Robinhood IPO access, Slack as a Trojan Horse PLUS Magic Spoon CEO Gabi Lewis | E1220

1104

Emergency Pod! Huge Bitcoin correction, Robinhood IPO rumors, Squarespace direct listing | E1219

1105

Marketing SEO & Conversion Funnels | Scaling Your Startup S2 E6: Gravitr’s Doriane Mouret & Outlaw’s Danielle Vincent | E1218

1106

Amazon in talks to acquire MGM, AT&T offloading Warner Media, Dapper Labs lawsuit plus NYT’s Taylor Lorenz on creator economy, Clubhouse & Jake Paul’s venture fund | E1217

1107

Emergency Pod! Twitter is reportedly building a paid subscription called “Twitter Blue” | E1216

1108

Ask an Angel PLUS Antonio Garcia Martinez vs. Apple with Zach Coelius | E1215

1109

Product | Scaling Your Startup S2 E5 with Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra & Fitbod’s Jesse Venticique | E1214

1110

Oura CEO Harpreet Rai on improving sleep, NBA partnerships, hardware & more PLUS the Instagram Kids debacle | E1213

1111

Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson & Jason give candid feedback on startup pitches at Founder University | E1212

1112

Facebook’s Oversight Board rules on Trump ban plus how to reverse engineer TAM & more | E1211

1113

Fundraising | Scaling Your Startup S2 E4 with Density’s Andrew Farah and SoleSavy’s Dejan Pralica | E1210

1114

Crafter’s Morgan Spenla on delighting makers with memberships, materials, and a marketplace | E1209

1115

Breaking down Basecamp’s tumultuous week, politics at work & more | E1208

1116

How Tiger Global is outpacing VC with better, faster, cheaper, capital ft. Founders Fund’s Everett Randle | E1207

1117

Sales | Scaling Your Startup S2 E3 with GRIN’s Brandon Brown and LeadIQ’s Mei Siauw | E1206

1118

Arlan Hamilton on raising $5M in crowdfunding, empowering & educating underestimated founders | E1205

1119

Emergency Pod! Tim Cook vs. Mark Zuckerberg: Apple and Facebook go to war over privacy updates | E1204

1120

Altimeter’s Brad Gerstner on taking Grab public in largest SPAC ever, fixing broken IPOs | E1203

1121

Social Marketing | Scaling Your Startup S2 E2 with Mehak Vohra and Kate Bradley-Chernis | E1202

1122

Emergency Pod! Jason reacts to the Apple event: M1 iMac & iPad Pro, AirTags, Podcasts & more | E1201

1123

MetaKovan on financing digital art & buying Beeple’s $69M NFT, plus Clubhouse facing new competition in social audio | E1200

1124

Jason’s EOW (End of Week) | 4/16/20

1125

Republic CEO Ken Nguyen on making early-stage investing for everyone | E1199

1126

Throwback! Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong from November 2017

1127

Growth | Scaling Your Startup S2 E1 with Growth University’s Craig Zingerline and Fitbod’s Allen Chen | E1198

1128

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou on powering NFTs, NBA Top Shot, & CryptoKitties | E1197

1129

Building a production location marketplace with Hank Leber, Co-Founder of Giggster | E1196

1130

Snack App’s Kim Kaplan PLUS 3 key metrics that matter for consumer, enterprise SaaS & marketplace startups | E1195

1131

This Week in Startups Australia hosted by Mark Pesce | Season 9 Episode 1 with Jason Calacanis

1132

Early angel investing blind spots, thoughts on the creator economy PLUS Canny.io’s Sarah Hum | E1194

1133

Common First-Time Founder Mistakes Part 2! with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1134

Emergency Pod! SPAC Overload: Understanding 2021’s unprecedented SPAC market | E1193

1135

Emergency Pod! uBiome: Anatomy of an Alleged Fraud with Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Dockser Marcus | E1192

1136

Startup Bracketology: selecting the world’s best private company with Acquired FM PLUS future of VC | E1191

1137

Common First-Time Founder Mistakes with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1138

Emergency Pod! Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10B+; breaking down their thesis, Discord’s business & more | E1190

1139

Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius: Starting your angel career, building marketplaces & more | E1189

1140

Joanne Wilson on spotting a bubble, NYC’s post-pandemic reset, portfolio management in an unsustainable market & more | Angel S5 E10

1141

Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad’s groundbreaking equity crowdfunding raise, lessons from a decade-long startup journey, insights on rolling funds & more | E1188

1142

Cade Metz on his controversial Slate Star Codex article, new book “Genius Makers,” dangers of algorithmic moderation, a16z vs. legacy media & more | E1187

1143

Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius: changing VC landscape, pitch deck punch-ups, Tesla’s future & more | E1186

1144

Stock option grants deep dive with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1145

Paul Judge on helping lead SoftBank’s $100M Opportunity Fund, future of fundraising, importance of “building your Olympic Team” & more | Angel S5 E9

1146

Kevin Rose on his product philosophy, Reddit & Digg’s inverse journeys, Twitter’s recent innovations & more | E1185

1147

Tobi Lütke on Shopify’s impact on the creator economy, COVID forcing focus, early Internet breakthroughs, evolving as a remote manager & much more | E1184

1148

How to run an efficient board meeting with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1149

Garry Tan on lessons from past startup failures, power of community funnels, Alexis Ohanian’s departure & more | Angel S5 E8

1150

Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques on funding underrepresented founders, insights from raising first fund & getting Apple as an LP, Black culture’s impact on social apps | E1183

1151

Keith Rabois on Miami vs. Bay Area, cognitive variety, America’s self-examination & more PLUS Keith’s Best Twitter Dunks | E1182

1152

Matt Mullenweg on pioneering remote work, investing in open-source, crypto & more | Angel S5 E7

1153

Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum on the future of healthcare post-COVID, starting a company to SPAC’ing in 36 months | E1181

1154

Founders from LAUNCH Accelerator’s 20th Cohort join Jason to talk fundraising, growth, pitching & more | E1180

1155

Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius: early-stage valuations, product roadmaps, startup killers, Twitter gets its groove back & more | E1179

1156

Reid Hoffman on the Joby Aviation SPAC, lessons from early Airbnb & Facebook bets, passing on Stripe & SpaceX, investment thesis & more | Angel S5 E6

1157

Emergency Pod! Deconstructing the grift: Clubhouse coaching scams with Coffeezilla | E1178

1158

“Crisis” Director Nick Jarecki on the opioid problem in America, post-COVID film distribution & more | E1177

1159

Ask Jason! All-In origins, avoiding common investor mistakes, defining “lifestyle” business vs. venture scale & more! | E1176

1160

News! Bitcoin hits $50K, monetizing Clubhouse, drafting the Mount Rushmore of Tech CEOs & more with Acquired FM | E1175

1161

Mark Cuban on the resurgence of retail investors, NBA’s potential entry into wagering & digital assets, DeFi & much more | Angel S5 E5

1162

Andrew Wilkinson on bringing the Buffett approach to startups, WeCommerce, Slack & more | E1174

1163

Box CEO Aaron Levie on the developing cloud storage market, Twitter jokes, Clubhouse vices & more | E1173

1164

Budgets, models & what investors are looking for with Scott Orn | Kruze Consulting Startup Finance Basics

1165

Howard Lindzon on public vs. private investing psychology, “great unbundling” of index funds, Robinhood & more | Angel S5 E4

1166

Ask an Angel with Zach Coelius: is moving to SF still worth it, bubble/recession potential, post-COVID funding & more | E1172

1167

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Bob Mumgaard on trying to solve climate change via nuclear fusion technology | E1171

1168

Five things you need to nail to scale with Scott Orn | Kruze Consulting Startup Finance Basics

1169

Emergency Pod! Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO: Reasons, reactions & more | E1170

1170

Elad Gil on his product-market driven thesis, importance of market pull, entering the “go public sooner” decade | Angel S5 E3

1171

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on “going big” with $1B funding round, insights from scaling globally, lessons from the pandemic | E1169

1172

No Rules Rules Co-Author Erin Meyer: Netflix’s “keeper test”, comparative turnover, navigating global business cultures – Part 2 | E1168

1173

Startup taxes deep dive with Scott Orn | Kruze Consulting Startup Finance Basics

1174

Emergency Pod! WallStreetBets vs. Suits, breaking down the GameStop fiasco & more | E1167

1175

Intercom’s Des Traynor on the importance of pricing, product-market fit metrics & more | Angel S5 E2

1176

No Rules Rules Co-Author Erin Meyer on how Netflix cultivates outlier performance & re-aligns values towards innovation – Part 1 | E1166

1177

Outer CEO Jiake Liu on standing out in DTC, go-to-market innovations, pitching at Remote Demo Day & more | E1165

1178

Emergency Pod! Facebook hands off Trump’s indefinite ban to the Oversight Board | E1164

1179

How to ace diligence & avoid common mistakes with Scott Orn | Kruze Consulting Startup Finance Basics

1180

David Tisch shares insights from 350+ early-stage investments in companies like Plaid & Roman, importance of reputation, dealing with sharp-elbowed investors & more | Angel S5 E1

1181

Frame.io CEO Emery Wells on helping the film industry go remote, how distributed work is changing movie studios & more | E1163

1182

“Early-stage startups we love right now” with Indie Hackers’ Courtland Allen & Pioneer’s Daniel Gross | E1162

1183

DocSend CEO Russ Heddleston on pitch deck insights, leaning into criticism & more | E1161

1184

Coda CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the productivity renaissance, enabling the maker generation, insights from early years of YouTube & more | E1160

1185

Joel Greenblatt on understanding market factors, improving public education, reducing income inequality & more | E1159

1186

Andy Rachleff on management theory, Reed Hastings’ genius, lessons from passing on Netflix & more | E1158

1187

E1157: TWiSTYs 2020 – Jason gives awards for the best, funniest, wettest beak & more!

1188

E1156: Emergency Pod! Ripple sued by SEC over XRP cryptocurrency, breaking down the SEC Complaint

1189

E1155: Daryl Morey on his eventful 2020, adapting to paradigm shifts, taking the Sixers job, building a winning organization & more

1190

E1154: Breaking the low-code stigma amongst developers & adjusting your market with Retool’s David Hsu | Rising Stars of SaaS 10

1191

E1153: Dave Portnoy on the business of Barstool, talent acquisition, Call Her Daddy controversy & more

1192

E1152: Keith Rabois on leaving Silicon Valley for Miami, Roaring Twenties 2.0, IPO spree & more

1193

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of December 7th, 2020

1194

E1151: Tech stock deep dive with Alex Wilhelm & Beth Kindig: Airbnb & DoorDash IPOs, Zoom’s pricing power, post-pandemic outlook, top picks & more

1195

Employment Agreement deep dive: IP assignment, offer letters, side hustles & more with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1196

E1150: Creating a better presentation software, competing with PowerPoint, Keynote & Google Slides & achieving great design with Pitch CEO Christian Reber | Rising Stars of SaaS 9

1197

E1149: Brad Feld on building startup communities, reconciling anxiety as an early-stage investor & remembering Tony Hsieh

1198

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 30th, 2020

1199

E1148: Apps Without Code Founder & CEO Tara Reed teaches aspiring entrepreneurs how to bootstrap startups to profitability

1200

All-In E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more

1201

Understanding Financing Structures: SAFEs, Convertibles Notes, Priced Rounds & more with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1202

E1147: “Godfather of SaaS” Jason Lemkin on 2020’s cloud software boom, public CEO mindsets, how Zoom conquered the competition & more | Rising Stars of SaaS 8

1203

E1146: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 19 founders reflect on their journeys thru the program: Blush (custom illustration tool), Palabra (no-code email automation) & Rolebot (AI hiring platform)

1204

E1145: Emergency Pod! Salesforce is reportedly acquiring Slack: winners, losers, ramifications & more!

1205

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 23rd, 2020

1206

E1144: How Income Share Agreements (ISAs) are solving education financing & aligning incentives in a broken system with Meratas CEO Darius Goldman | Rising Stars of SaaS 7

1207

All-In E13: SPACsgiving Special! Plus: More promising vaccine news, innovation vs. regulation, reforming higher ed, morality of challenge trials

1208

Negotiating a Term Sheet: Deal killers, what terms are worth fighting for & more with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1209

E1143: Indie Hackers Founder Courtland Allen is creating a community for the next generation of builders to chase the “new American Dream”

1210

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 16th, 2020

1211

E1142: Emergency Pod! Jason breaks down & ranks his top 4 IPO candidates: Airbnb, Affirm, Robinhood & Roblox!

1212

E1141: CircleUp’s Ryan Caldbeck on the mental & physical toll of being a founder, why he stepped down as CEO & shared his struggle publicly

1213

Avoiding Co-Founder legal disputes & C-Corp vs. LLC with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

1214

E1140: Dishcraft Robotics CEO Linda Pouliot on scaling Robots-as-a-Service | Rising Stars of SaaS 6

1215

E1139: Loop CEO Brian Gannon shares secrets to scaling a hardware startup & launching the Loop 2 + bonus Ask Jason!

1216

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 9th, 2020

1217

E1138: Ask Jason! Benefits to growing a company internationally, Apple’s new chip impact, investing in solo founders & more!

1218

E1137: Making coding accessible for all with Repl.it CEO Amjad Masad | Rising Stars of SaaS 5

1219

All-ln E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump’s next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more

1220

E1136: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on evolving accreditation laws, SPACs, importance of capital markets in wealth creation, spotting fraud & more

1221

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 2nd, 2020

1222

E1135: Density CEO Andrew Farah on launching the Open Area sensor, $51M Series C, impact of increasing spatial efficiency, risk-taking & more

1223

E1134: Deep dive on the food delivery wars with ChowNow CEO Chris Webb | Rising Stars of SaaS 4

1224

All-In E11: Election Night Special featuring surprise guests!

1225

E1133: Podcast & blogging pioneer Dave Winer on inventing new forms of media, tribalism on social media, tales from Silicon Valley’s Golden Age & more

1226

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 26th, 2020

1227

E1132: News! Jack Dorsey vs. Ted Cruz, Google’s antitrust lawsuit, Expensify email, Amazon deep dive & much more with Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

1228

E1131 Bringing barbershops into the digital age with Squire CEO Songe LaRon | Rising Stars of SaaS 3

1229

E1130: “Billion Dollar Loser” Author Reeves Wiedeman on WeWork’s epic rise & crazy collapse, Adam Neumann’s unique behavior, hypocrisy, red flags & more

1230

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 19th, 2020

1231

E1129: Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff on launching the Always Home Cam – an autonomous indoor drone, taking his company from bad reviews to a billion-dollar acquisition by Amazon & more

1232

E1128: Emergency Pod! A Quibi postmortem – Diving into the numbers, what went wrong, lessons learned & more!

1233

E1127: Data privacy deep dive with Transcend CEO Ben Brook; tracking pixels, GDPR, privacy as a selling point & more | Rising Stars of SaaS 2

1234

E1126: Capital Allocators Host Ted Seides goes deep on endowments, LP turnover, public/private market insights, ESG investing & more

1235

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 12th, 2020

1236

E1125: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 18 founders reflect on their journeys thru the program: Fluent Forever (language learning app), SupportPay (child support management solution) & v.one (no-code app building platform)

1237

All-In E10: Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate & more

1238

E1124: Reducing response times for first responders & revolutionizing outdated systems with RapidDeploy CEO Steven Raucher | Rising Stars of SaaS 1

1239

E1123: Emergency Pod! Jason reacts to the iPhone 12 fail & Apple jumping the shark; theories on the lack of innovation: is something big in the works or has Apple lost its magic?

1240

E1122: Running Tide CEO Marty Odlin is helping solve the Climate crisis by using kelp to sequester carbon in the ocean, shares insights on generational shifts in climate response & more

1241

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 5th, 2020

1242

E1121: Mark Suster on investing in human-computer interfaces & sustainability, what he looks for in founders, SPACs impact on early-stage investing & more

1243

E1120: Shift Co-CEO George Arison on going public via SPAC, lessons from building Uber’s predecessor & innovating in the massive used car market

1244

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of September 28th, 2020

1245

All-In E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more

1246

E1119: Wonderschool CEO Chris Bennett is creating a marketplace for early childhood education & microschools, giving teachers greater access to entrepreneurship & iterating in education

1247

E1118: Emergency Pod! Two former Apple executives are building the iPhone killer – breaking down the leaks, patents & scoops regarding Humane’s product

1248

E1117 The Next Unicorns E20: Citizen CEO Andrew Frame on creating a safer world through access to public data, reforming policing via transparency & more

1249

E1116: Cabana CEO Scott Kubly is building a fleet of hotels-on-wheels, shares insights on scaling an asset-heavy business, providing unique & flexible experiences to customers & more

1250

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of September 21st, 2020

1251

E1115: Emergency Pod! Collapsing state of media corporations, thoughts on Casey Newton, Andrew Sullivan & Bari Weiss departures, top talent leaving for Substack & more

1252

E1114: #AskJason! Silicon Valley exodus, product vs. branding, expanding into adjacent markets, avoiding burnout & more

1253

E1113 The Next Unicorns E19: Loom CEO Joe Thomas is building video for work, shares insights on creating new behaviors, support as a competitive advantage & more

1254

E1112: Emergency Pod! Nikola fraud allegations, Trevor Milton resigns, Jason reflects on Trevor’s answers

1255

All-In E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021 & beyond, California wildfires & more

1256

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of September 14th, 2020

1257

E1111: Brewster Kahle on archiving the entire Internet, creating the Wayback Machine, protocols over platforms, microschools & more

1258

E1110 The Next Unicorns E18: Ghost Locomotion CEO John Hayes builds self-driving kits for consumer vehicles, shares insights on cameras vs. Lidar, targeting highways, 5G’s impact on self-driving & more

1259

Apply to pitch thousands of angel investors at Remote Demo Day – Coming September 30th

1260

E1109: Ritual CEO Katerina Schneider on creating pure & effective vitamins, standing out in a crowded DTC market, utilizing subscriptions & more

1261

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of September 7th, 2020

1262

E1108: SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie on leading a public company through COVID, championing diversity from the top down, role of a modern CEO & more

1263

E1107 The Next Unicorns E17: Caffeine CEO Ben Keighran on reimagining live TV for younger generations, what makes Apple’s design team so special, remembering Steve Jobs & more

1264

All-In E7: California’s collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more

1265

E1106: Desktop Metal CEO Ric Fulop shares insights from taking two companies public, traditional IPO vs. SPAC, future of Computer-aided design & more

1266

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of August 31st, 2020

1267

E1105: Unpacking the US/China Relationship with Foreign Policy & Technology Expert Jacob Helberg

1268

E1104 The Next Unicorns E16: Degreed’s David Blake on reimagining lifelong education, ending credentialism, benefits of early apprenticeship & more

1269

E1103: Domm Holland on launching Fast to the public, creating a one-click checkout for the entire Internet, taking on Apple Pay & more

1270

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of August 24th, 2020

1271

E1102 The Next Unicorns E15: Zero Mass Water CEO Cody Friesen is perfecting drinking water with hydropanels, aiming to create essential resource UBI for the world

1272

E1101: News! Apple vs. Epic Games, TikTok CEO resigns, SPACs, Unicorn IPOs & more with Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

1273

E1100: Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That on facial recognition advancements, balancing privacy & security, engaging with controversy & more

1274

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of August 17th, 2020

1275

E1099: Basecamp Co-Founder Jason Fried on building Hey, making email exciting again, Hey vs. Apple & more

1276

E1098 The Next Unicorns E14: Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball on the coming paradigm shifts in tech, competing against AWS & more

1277

E1097: Understanding the travel collapse & how media can thrive going forward with Skift CEO & Founder Rafat Ali

1278

Best of This Week in Startups: August 10th-August 14th, 2020

1279

E1096: Podcasting State of the Union featuring Overcast’s Marco Arment & Oxford Road’s Dan Granger

1280

E1095 The Next Unicorns E13: Roofstock CEO Gary Beasley is creating the real estate cloud, opening residential investing to millennials & more

1281

E1094: Thrasio Co-CEO Josh Silberstein acquires & operates 60+ Amazon brands, shares insights on mastering the marketplace, competing with AmazonBasics & more

1282

E1093: Keith Rabois on China’s grand plan, TikTok, Taiwan, Big Tech & more

1283

E1092 The Next Unicorns E12: Homebound CEO & Co-Founder Nikki Pechet is solving the home building process by increasing customer experience, helping victims of natural disasters rebuild efficiently

1284

E1091: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 17 founders reflect on their journeys throughout the program: Nude Barre (DTC hosiery made for women of all shades), Techmate (On-demand tech support for remote & satellite employees) & Solo (Trucking-as-a-Service)

1285

All-In E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more

1286

E1090: Nikola Founder Trevor Milton on competing with Tesla, hydrogen over battery, going public as a pre-revenue company & more

1287

Emergency Pod! Jason Calacanis reacts to Big Tech hearings: Grades for Bezos, Cook, Pichai & Zuckerberg

1288

E1089 The Next Unicorns E11: insitro CEO Daphne Koller is revolutionizing drug discovery via machine learning & data, shares insights on remote education from time at Coursera & more

1289

E1088: Building Zero Fasting with Kevin Rose, properly pricing consumer apps, benefits of fasting & more with Big Sky Health CEO Mike Maser

1290

E1087: Democratizing art as an asset class, indicators of a rapidly appreciating piece of art & more with Masterworks CEO & Founder Scott Lynn

1291

E1086: Supporting founder mental health at Freestyle Capital with Josh Felser, Caren Maio & Mani Kulasooriya

1292

E1085: Chris Atoki shares his inspiring story: from homeless to homeowner in 4 years through grit, technology & hustle

1293

E1084: David Sacks on “The Cadence”: an operating philosophy he developed at PayPal which helped him lead Yammer to a billion-dollar exit without a COO

1294

All-In E5: WHO’s incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China’s grand plan, 100X’ing America’s efficiency

1295

Founders: Pitch Thousands of Angel Investors over Zoom at Remote Demo Day!

1296

E1083 News: Trump considers TikTok ban, Twitter leaks subscription platform, Clubhouse drama, Harvard price gouging & more with Morgan DeBaun & Alex Wilhelm

1297

E1082: OfferUp CEO & Co-Founder Nick Huzar on creating liquidity in a marketplace, acquiring their largest competitor in Letgo, location-based pay & more!

1298

E1081: SevenRooms CEO & Co-Founder Joel Montaniel on raising $50M Series B during COVID, taking on large incumbents, helping restaurants leverage data to maximize customer experience

1299

Learn how to be an Angel Investor from Jason Calacanis at Angel.University Online!

1300

E1080: Arlan Hamilton on launching Backstage Crowd, disrupting VC with syndicates, how the tech industry can be better for underrepresented founders & more

1301

E1079: The Power of Accelerators E10 Daniel Gross, Founder of Pioneer on gamifying the startup process, importance of mentorship in tech & more!

1302

E1078 Pomp Podcast Crossover: Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano on most exciting crypto projects, Hey vs. Apple, Robinhood/Barstool traders, Zuck vs. Bezos, Jason’s Bitcoin position & more!

1303

All-In E4: Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Biden’s ideal VP, Twitter vs. Facebook on free speech & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg

1304

E1077: “Alchemy” Author Rory Sutherland on the Darwinian approach to business, analyzing outliers, why eccentric CEOs have a psychological advantage with customers & more!

1305

E1076: The Power of Accelerators E9 Sunny Madra, Head of Ford X on innovating mobility for a post-COVID world, going from idea to product at a large corporation & more

1306

E1075: Cendana Capital’s Michael Kim on investing in Seed funds as a serial LP, Robinhood as an acquisition target, greatest Seed funds of all time & more

1307

E1074 News: How VC can do better for underrepresented founders, Zoom shuts down Chinese pro-democracy accounts, Wall Street Bets, Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to BoD & more with Lolita Taub & Tom Uebel

1308

E1073: The Power of Accelerators E8 Mike Jones, CEO of Science shares insights on what makes a great Direct-to-Consumer Founder, investing early in Dollar Shave Club, economics of a venture-studio & more!

1309

E1072 Ask Jason: Growing as a leader, managing more experienced employees as a young CEO, Consumer SaaS pricing tips, bull markets post-COVID & more

1310

Announcement: Learn how to become a professional angel investor at Angel.University Online

1311

E1071 Ask Jason: Black Lives Matter, Post-COVID tech hubs, Founder/VC disputes, bringing manufacturing back to the US, pre-selling SaaS products & more

1312

E1070: The Power of Accelerators E7 Ravi Belani, Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator on why the best entrepreneurs love the process, risk-taking, sourcing & investing in Justin.tv at DFJ & more

1313

E1069: Alexis Ohanian on Reddit’s crypto origins, turning VC into a team sport at Initialized, improving as an investor, fatherhood & more

1314

E1068 AMA: NEA’s Ben Narasin takes questions from founders: most important content in a pitch deck, COVID’s impact on dealmaking, traits he looks for in founders & more!

1315

E1067: Garry Tan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Initialized Capital, on dealing with downstream investors as a Seed-stage firm, software companies acting as governments, possibility of building IPO-level companies while fully-distributed & much more!

1316

E1066: The Power of Accelerators E6 David Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of TechStars on leading the virtual accelerator trend, benefits of going global, sustained vs. temporary changes from COVID & more!

1317

E1065 AMA: Slice CEO Ilir Sela answers questions from founders: tips on selling into scattered markets (like Mom & Pop shops), COVID’s impact on the restaurant industry, scaling Slice’s $43M Series C & more!

1318

E1064: News Roundtable! Sam Parr & Zach Coelius on Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy, SoftBank’s $17B loss, TikTok poaches former Disney exec as CEO, Facebook launches Shops & more!

1319

All-In E3: Modern Cold War between US & China, economic recovery, potential mass migration out of San Francisco, pandemic politicization & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg

1320

E1063: The Power of Accelerators E5 Joshua Baer, CEO & Founder of Capital Factory shares lessons from investing in 400+ startups, best practices for transitioning accelerators to remote, insights on SXSW cancellation & more

1321

E1062: News Roundtable! Acquired.FM Co-Hosts Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on Clubhouse’s pre-launch $100M valuation, Joe Rogan to Spotify, Uber layoffs, food delivery wars, Facebook buys GIPHY & more!

1322

E1061 AMA: Hustle Fund's Elizabeth Yin answers 50 questions from founders!

1323

E1060 AMA: Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius answers questions from founders: meeting & collaborating with Evan Williams, divvying up time while building a remote team, product development advice, benefits of co-founders & more

1324

E1059: The Power of Accelerators E4 Sean O’Sullivan, Managing General Partner of SOSV on running capital intensive accelerators in hardware, life sciences & food science, unique follow-on strategy, cell-based meat going mainstream, China-based vs. US-based accelerators

1325

E1058: Slice CEO & Founder Ilir Sela helps local pizzerias compete with chains by digitizing orders & small fees, shares insights on raising $40M+ Series C during pandemic, “reverse franchise model”, viral GrubHub invoice, helping front-line workers & local pizzerias with Pizza vs. Pandemic

1326

E1057: Founders Fund General Partner Keith Rabois on stock market bounce back, domain expertise being overrated, US/China issues, 2020 election, recipe for startups success, chaos making way for a new generation of entrepreneurs & much more!

1327

E1056 AMA: StartX & Nexus Events Founder Cameron Teitelman answers questions from founders: how universities with no entrepreneurial culture can mimic Stanford, building flexible & sustainable culture during COVID, scaling Nexus Events rapidly & more!

1328

E1055: Hustle Fund Co-Founder & General Partner Elizabeth Yin on her unique portfolio strategy, attracting first-time LPs, optimism for post-COVID fundraising, dealing with pro rata as a smaller fund & more!

1329

AMA 2: All Turtles CEO Phil Libin answers questions from founders: should early-stage founders prioritize data or instincts, building global products, ML risks, thoughts on remote work

1330

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1331

E1054: The Power of Accelerators E3 Siobhan Dullea, CEO of MassChallenge on running a non-profit accelerator, accepting hundreds of companies per year, what makes a great application, why East Coast investors are more conservative & more!

1332

E1053: Ask Jason! Catching‌ ‌an‌ ‌investor’s‌ ‌eye‌ ‌with‌ ‌a‌ ‌cold‌ ‌email‌, what founders/investors often overlook during pitches, COVID’s impact on Jason’s deal flow, domain name hacks & more!

1333

TEASER: Inside Transportation E3: Sandy Munro Talks Electric Vehicles, Tesla Model Y + More

1334

E1052: Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius shares best practices on building culture as a remote team, insights from working on Google+, importance of asynchronous communication on distributed teams, Holacracy & more!

1335

AMA 1: freeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson answers founder and developer questions

1336

E1051: The Power of Accelerators E2 Cameron Teitelman, Founder & Chairman of StartX on optimizing Stanford’s entrepreneurial landscape, thesis on peer-support groups’ correlation to founder success, why growth-stage founders join StartX & more!

1337

E1050: PlayVS CEO & Founder Delane Parnell shares his incredible journey from the projects to raising almost $100M to build the esports platform of the future, breaking through as an outsider in tech, using leverage & partnerships to create a moat, his top 5 entrepreneurs & more!

1338

SNEAK PREVIEW! Inside Transportation E2: EV Companies Take PPP Loans, Virgin Australia collapses, Levandowski v. Uber

1339

E1049: freeCodeCamp Founder Quincy Larson shares insights on democratizing developer skills, which programs to learn to land a coding job, if anyone can learn to code, maximizing earning potential & more!

1340

E1048: The Power of Accelerators E1 Steve Barsh, Managing Partner of Dreamit Ventures on top portfolio companies, focusing on specific verticals, tips for nailing accelerator interviews, follow-on philosophy & more

1341

E1047: Ask Jason Slack Special! Sourcing talent during a crisis, building strong culture & motivating remote teams, investing in distributed startups, importance of market timing & more!

1342

E1046: News Roundtable! TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm & Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin on COVID’s potential privacy risk, private/public investor outlooks, remote work challenges & at-risk early-stage investors

1343

E1045: 15Five CEO & Co-Founder David Hassell shares insights on remote work: transitioning from in-person to remote, tips for keeping employees engaged, defining trust & more!

1344

SNEAK PREVIEW: E2 All-In with Chamath Palihapitiya & Jason Calacanis: Rebooting the economy, understanding corporate debt, steps to avoid a depression & more with David Sacks

1345

E1044: Ask Jason! Starting a company in an economic crisis, bringing on & compensating startup advisors, scaling diligence as an angel investor, Jason’s thoughts on solving the unemployment surge & more!

1346

E41: “Angel” Podcast: Shawn Carolan, Managing Partner at Menlo Ventures shares insights on his early investments in Uber, Roku, Siri & JUMP Bikes, adjusting his approach in response to hundreds of new venture funds with billions in dry powder & more!

1347

E1043: News Roundtable! Bloomberg Beta’s Roy Bahat & Coelius Capital’s Zach Coelius on how tech is helping during the crisis, how startups should approach SMB loans, when VC funding will bounce back, Notion’s $50M raise, Zoom’s security issues, Luckin coffee & more!

1348

E1042: Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) shares insights on Recode incident, need for decentralized citizen journalism, techlash through the years, potential COVID-19 endgames: bull, bear & base case scenarios

1349

E40: “Angel” Podcast: Jeff Richards, Managing Partner at GGV Capital shares lessons for founders & investors from 2008 recession & Dot-com bust, criteria for taking on venture debt, valuing companies in a down market & more

1350

E1041: The Lean Startup’s Eric Ries gives tactical advice for founders during an economic downturn: obligations of leadership, extending runway, handling layoffs with grace, finding new revenue opportunities, capitalizing on silver-linings & more!

1351

E1040: Figma CEO & Co-Founder Dylan Field shares insights on crucial moments in Figma’s creation, overcoming SaaS burnout, active vs. passive user-pricing, getting Greylock & Sequoia to invest after they initially passed & more!

1352

E39: “Angel” Podcast: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock Partners shares insights on Greylock’s “Zero to One” investment thesis, sharpening her decision-making skills, ranking team, market & product as investment criteria & the changing landscape of VC

1353

E1039: Independent Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, “Lambda School’s Misleading Promises”, shares insights on what drew him to the story, where Lambda School went wrong, how they can be better & more

1354

E1038: News Roundtable! Index Ventures’ Sarah Cannon & TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm on COVID-19’s impact so far: lessons learned, Sarah’s stimulus plan, endgame scenarios & more

1355

E1 All-In with Chamath Palihapitiya & Jason Calacanis: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, Venture Capital & Public Markets with David Friedberg

1356

E38: “Angel” Podcast: David Cowan, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners shares insights on owning up to his anti-portfolio, understanding sunk cost, top traits for becoming a VC & best Founders & CEOs he’s ever worked with

1357

E1037: LAUNCH Accelerator Class 16 Founders of BasicBlock (payment solution for truckers), DaoCloud (lead-gen for health & wellness practitioners) & Lately (AI-powered social media writing software) reflect on their journeys through the program

1358

EMERGENCY POD: E0 All-In with Chamath Palihapitiya & Jason Calacanis: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring The Production Board’s David Friedberg (frmly Founder/CEO, The Climate Corporation)

1359

E1036: #AskJason Special! When to join a startup to maximize equity & job security, types of companies that will thrive in an economic downturn, legendary founder & investor traits, tips for starting a podcast & more!

1360

E37: “Angel” Podcast: Nicole Quinn, Partner at Lightspeed shares benefits of celebrity founders like Lady Gaga & Gwyneth Paltrow, insights on investing in consumer & power of “Force of Nature” product people

1361

E1035: SoftBank Managing Partner Jeff Housenbold on deploying the $100B Vision Fund, getting recruited by Masayoshi Son, counseling founders to manage massive capital, creating moats, reasons for shift toward profits, lessons from WeWork & more

1362

E1034: Formlabs CEO & Co-Founder Max Lobovsky shares insights on hitting $100M in revenue as a 3D printing platform, most lucrative use cases, growing organically, best 3D printing examples in science fiction

1363

E36: “Angel” Podcast: Ajay Agarwal, Partner at Bain Capital shares insights on culture evolving from sales-driven to product-driven, why enterprise software is the ideal business, best investments & anti-portfolio

1364

E1033: News Roundtable! Lambda School CEO Austen Allred & General Catalyst Partner Katherine Boyle on Lambda School controversy, Techlash & late-stage journalism, Robinhood down as Dow jumps & more!

1365

E1032: News Roundtable! Robinhood Snacks’ Duo Jack Kramer & Nick Martell on Coronavirus’ impact on public markets, Iger out at Disney – Buy or Sell?, link-baiting Tesla crash, defining Cult Stocks & more!

1366

E35: “Angel” Podcast: Sarah Tavel, Partner at Benchmark shares insights on getting recruited by Peter Fenton, disrupting VC gender norms from the inside, transitioning from operator to investor & more

1367

E1031: Zumper CEO & Co-Founder Anthemos Georgiades makes renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel, shares insights on monetizing marketplaces, diversifying revenue streams to limit downside, Airbnb’s effect on the rental market & more!

1368

E1030: News Roundtable! Zapier CEO Wade Foster & Early-Stage Investor Monique Woodard on Tech Journalists vs. Founders/VCs, Twitter’s fake news detection, Kickstarter union, Blue Apron plummeting, Lambda School controversy & more!

1369

E34: “Angel” Podcast: George Zachary, General Partner at CRV shares insights on cancer scare shifting his focus to investing in health-tech, passing on Google at MDV, CRISPR & “designer babies”, coronavirus threat, origins of Sand Hill Road & more!

1370

E1029: Basecamp Co-Founder & Author David Heinemeier Hansson (@DHH) debates Jason on reining in capitalism, benefits of state-run education & healthcare, big-tech disappointments, work-from-home paradigm shift, wealth tax & more!

1371

E1028: Laura Huang, author of “Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage” shares insights on overcoming disadvantages to create an edge, being bitter vs. getting better, structural bias in tech & more

1372

E33: “Angel” Podcast: Dan Rose, Chairman at Coatue Management is leading a $700M early-stage fund, shares insights on working with Bezos & Zuckerberg during pivotal years at Amazon & Facebook, 100+ angel investments, standout founder traits & more

1373

E1027: Orreco CEO & Founder Dr. Brian Moore built a platform that optimizes performance of elite athletes, shares cutting-edge benefits of blood sampling, biomarkers, inflammation reduction, glucose monitoring & more!

1374

E1026: Cocoon Co-Founders Sachin Monga & Alex Cornell are building an intimate app to connect close circles, share insights on key standout features, raising money as a messaging app, breeding trust via strong domain names, ideal customers & more

1375

E32: “Angel” podcast: Season 4 Premiere! Sarah Cannon, Partner at Index Ventures, shares insights on investing in the future of work, underrated emerging startup markets, going from the Obama Administration to Venture Capital, increasing upward mobility in America, fixing the gig economy & more!

1376

E1025: #StartupTuneup @ Founder.University Part 2!: 6 founders pitch to Jason & Dave Samuel of Freestyle Capital on AI driving assistance, sleep-aid wearables, marijuana, B2B food analytics & more!

1377

E1024: #StartupTuneup @ Founder.University: 6 founders pitch to Jason & Dave Samuel of Freestyle Capital on merging communication networks, athlete performance tracking, DTC women’s clothing, smart tabletop gaming systems & more!

1378

E1023: News Roundtable! Machine Zone CEO Kristen Dumont & The Register’s Iain Thomson on Bezos phone hack, Tesla valuation skyrocketing, DJ Elon, Coronavirus, Barstool Sports funding, unions, proposed Uber/DoorDash merger & more!

1379

E1022: One Drop CEO & Founder Jeff Dachis helps people with diabetes manage & improve their blood-sugar levels, shares insights on making data actionable, recent strategic partnership with Bayer, issues with US healthcare & potential life-expansion

1380

E1021: Bubble Co-CEO & Co-Founder Emmanuel Straschnov built a no-code platform to empower the next generation of programmers, shares insights on bootstrapping to over 300k users, developing skills while scaling & more

1381

E1020: CEO/Investor Coach & Author Matt Mochary shares insights on developing his coaching method, understanding & overcoming primal fear, addressing imposter syndrome & more

1382

E1019: Mahmee CEO & Co-Founder Melissa Hanna is helping new moms navigate thru postpartum care, shares insights on getting Serena Williams & Mark Cuban to invest, improving the experience for mothers of color & adding structure to a fragmented industry

1383

E1018: #AskJason! Avoiding first-time founder mistakes, causes of big-tech layoffs, participating in a Series A as an Angel, running a US-based startup as an international student, importance of having a strong lead investor & more!

1384

E1017: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: scaling as a solo founder, reducing churn, raising capital in a heavily regulated field, pivoting from one-time payments to SaaS & more @ WSGR

1385

E1016: Substack CEO & Co-Founder Chris Best empowers writers via his email newsletter platform, shares insights on driving change in the attention economy, raising $15M from a16z, providing value to retain talent & more

1386

E1015: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: gaining interest from investors, scaling while bootstrapping in a niche market, automating operations tasks, acquiring national customers & focusing on customers in the cannabis compliance space @ WSGR

1387

E1014: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: targeting a specific segment of customers, overcoming past failures in a market, developing new nuclear energy, competing against a major incumbent & more!

1388

E1013: Decade Wrap-Up Roundtable! Garry Tan, Initialized Capital & Zach Coelius, Coelius Capital on the biggest hits & misses of the past decade: Trump, Theranos, Streaming, Mindfulness, Crypto, Tesla, WeWork, Amazon Prime, Vaping & more!

1389

E1012: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: goal-setting, starting a sales flywheel, converting bounced customers, capitalizing on investor feedback & more!

1390

E1011: Check Point CEO & Co-founder Gil Shwed shares insights on being the “Godfather of Cybersecurity”, growing Check Point into Israel’s most impactful tech company, pricing & developing products for an emerging market, best practices on protecting data from hackers & the next generation of cybers

1391

E1010: TWiST Live! Thumbtack CEO & Co-founder Marco Zappacosta shares insights on pivoting to optimize for consumer experience, starting a company during the great recession vs. 2019, fundraising tips & the future of Thumbtack

1392

E1009: #StartupTuneup! Startmate Founders pitch Jason: AR presentation platform, experiential marketing, wearables that help menstrual cramps, education thru e-sports & more!

1393

E1008: VSCO CEO & Co-founder Joel Flory is building a photo-sharing platform free of ads, likes & comments to empower creators, shares insights on appealing to Gen Z, expanding their global reach & the magic of subscriptions

1394

E1007: DoNotPay CEO & Founder Josh Browder built an AI lawyer to fight corporations & governments, demos product features & how it helps consumers, shares insights on following in footsteps of his father Bill Browder, & future of consumer empowerment

1395

E1006: Farmer’s Fridge CEO & Founder Luke Saunders is creating a connected network of vending machines offering fresh & healthy meals, shares insights on creating a restaurant-like experience, solving food-supply chain issues, capitalizing on grassroots marketing & real-world virality & using sales

1396

E1005: Scale AI CEO & Co-founder Alexandr Wang creates training data for all AI applications to improve machine learning, shares insights on the future of autonomous vehicles, China’s AI advantages over US, importance of humans focusing on higher-value work & next major trends in AI

1397

E1004: Yousician CEO & Co-founder Chris Thür created an interactive platform to master musical instruments, shares insights on acquiring 1M+ users, increasing retention through gamification, using profitability as leverage while attracting investors as an international startup

1398

E1003: The Athletic CEO & Co-founder Alex Mather is building a paid online sports media publication, shares insights on attracting investors in a seemingly dying industry, managing 500+ remote writers, creating interesting angles through unique coverage & more

1399

E1002: Wealthfront CEO & Co-founder Andy Rachleff on hitting escape velocity at Wealthfront, pioneering “self-driving money” for consumers, shares insights on product-building in 1980’s vs. today, best investor attributes, & the future of NextGen banking

1400

E1001: Eight Sleep CEO & Co-founder Matteo Franceschetti pioneered “sleep-fitness” with smart heating & cooling technology; shares insights on product iteration, delighting customers, innovating in D2C, raising $40M from LAUNCH, Founders Fund, Craft & more

1401

E1000: 1000th Episode Retrospective! Jason & TWiST lifers Lon Harris, Brian Alvey, & Tyler Crowley re-live favorite moments & guests, highlighting innovations in podcasting & tech over the last decade, hitting global trends & what’s in store for the next 1000

1402

E999: ROOM CEO & Co-founder Brian Chen is building phone booths for the modern office, shares insights on maximizing open floor plans, partnering with Calm to reduce stress at work, maintaining capital efficiency as a hardware startup

1403

E998: The Next Unicorns: Benchling CEO & Co-founder Sajith Wickramasekara is increasing efficiency for scientists with a cloud-based platform, gives insights on recent life-science innovations, ethics of gene therapy & defining the line between quackery & brilliance – E10 of 10-ep miniseries

1404

E997: HubSpot CEO & Co-founder Brian Halligan shares insights on the origin of inbound marketing, how The Grateful Dead inspired HubSpot, importance of customer experience, managing employees in the Glassdoor Era & more

1405

E996: Clearbit CEO & Co-founder Alex MacCaw is creating god-mode for marketers with Clearbit X, gives insights on dynamic customer targeting, prioritizing profitability over valuation, GDPR’s adverse effect on Facebook & Google, value of aggregated data & benefits of CEO coaching

1406

E995: The Next Unicorns: NEXT Trucking CEO & Co-founder Lidia Yan brings trucking into the digital age with her two-sided marketplace, shares insights on finding & focusing on an untapped market, owning & innovating drayage, navigating the trucking industry as a woman & scaling the right team for su

1407

E994: All Turtles CEO Phil Libin shares his state machine that answers all growth questions; Future of Early-Stage VC w/Pete Flint (NFX), Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Ventures), Dave Samuel (Freestyle Capital); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Lever CTO Nate Smith

1408

E993: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra shares the formula for his Product-Market Fit Engine; Future of Angel Investing w/Jeff Clavier (Uncork), Ben Ling (Bling), Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Help Scout VP of Sales Tim Thyne

1409

E992: The Next Unicorns: Expanse CEO & Co-founder Tim Junio reduces exposure to online threats by providing “attack surface visibility”, shares insights into current threats from China & Russia, potential 2020 election tampering, reasons for cybersecurity optimism & more – E8 of 10-ep miniseries

1410

E991: #StartupTuneup with Urban-X: Waste-reducing marketplaces, traffic liability reduction, recreational sharing spaces, firefighter safety software & energy cost saving AI

1411

E990: SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie on driving growth by listening to customers & employees, importance of a strong & diverse board, direct listings v. IPOs, lessons learned from WeWork; plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk featuring Yosiat Gimbernard from Odoo

1412

E989: The Next Unicorns: Culture Amp CEO & Co-founder Didier Elzinga is building an employee analytics platform that keeps workers satisfied & motivated, shares insights on the changing role of culture, what modern employees value & maintaining culture while scaling – E7 of 10-ep miniseries

1413

E988: Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner of Cowboy Ventures, pioneered actionable change to diversify tech & VC, shares early days innovating in e-commerce, insights on current funding landscape, dangers of prioritized growth over sustainability, & lessons learned from backing winners like Dolla

1414

E987: The Next Unicorns: Upgrade CEO & Co-founder Renaud Laplanche is empowering users to better understand credit through his consumer credit platform, announces the Upgrade Card, shares insights on taking LendingClub public & how startups have changed since he started his first company in 2000 – E

1415

E986: StockX Co-founder Josh Luber is building a stock market for things, shares insights on the two cultural shifts that brought sneaker culture mainstream, attracting Mark Wahlberg, Eminem & Steve Aoki to invest along with Google Ventures & Marc Benioff & growing a unicorn out of a sneaker-data si

1416

E985: #AskJason! Recognizing great founders as an investor, dealing with a lack of updates, raising capital through crowdfunding, the ideal makeup of today’s founder, how Angel Investing has changed since the release of “Angel”, standing out in slow-to-adapt markets

1417

E984: Vice Ventures Founding Partner Catharine Dockery raised $25M to invest in vices: marijuana, sextech, gambling, alcohol, vaping; shares insights on hacking her way into VC through cold emails & a strong investment thesis, capitalizing on early markets hungry for investment

1418

E983: The Next Unicorns: Zola CEO & Co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma shares insights on growing her all-in-one wedding platform in a $100bn market, adapting to changes in wedding demographics, balancing growth and profitability while keeping her team focused, raising moral standards in tech – E5 of 10-ep mini

1419

E982: Karmic Bikes Founder Hong Quan on creating the “Tesla of E-Bikes” with OSLO, bootstrapping through Kickstarter, lowering costs as a strategy, insights on U.S. resistance to widespread E-Bike adoption, & why this vehicle is the future of transportation, plus Office Hours with Jason!

1420

E981: Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta, shares the myths of venture capital, the great value of founders turned investors, why VCs reject startups, searing insights on fundraising & valuations, and predictions on the future of enterprise, AI, work & automation @ LAUNCH Accelerator

1421

E980: The Next Unicorns: Alto Pharmacy CEO & Co-founder Mattieu Gamache-Asselin is working to fix the broken US pharmacy system by removing friction & aligning incentives among patients, doctors & insurers, shares insights on trading short-term profits for long-term success, combating the opioid cri

1422

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