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Is Chalk.ai the 'Next Databricks'? + Tollbit's Bot Paywall for AI Agents | E2167
Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom's Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud
Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166
Meta's "Sensual" AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor's dreams became memes + OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165
The End of the ZIRP Era, and why recruiting is SO PAINFUL | E2164
GPT Psychosis is spreading, the NYT is Super-Doxxing Zuck, and Trump is wetting his beak on Chinese chip exports | E2163
GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162
Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161
Lina Khan's Figma victory lap, Meta's Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160
TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159
All Star Investor Panel! Sophia Amoruso and Ryan Hoover | E2158
Figma IPO, IMAX AI Festival, the Tea app spill, that one Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and more! | E2157
Behind the scenes at the ALL-IN AI SUMMIT w/ POTUS, JD Vance, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and more… | E2156
AUTOMATING HEALTH CARE, THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING, AND PRODUCT VELOCITY | E2155
Manufacturing in the US, Building in Open Source… and more | E2154
Inside Substack's $100M Push to Fend Off Beehiiv | E2153
Thinking Machines' RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152
Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151
Grok 4 Beats OpenAI + The $300 AI Agent Era | E2150
Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs' Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud
Starlink + Tesla? $4T Nvidia? Perplexity Browser? Linda Yaccarino Steps Down? | E2149
Cloud Seeding, Conspiracies & the Texas Floods | BONUS EPISODE!
Exits Are Back, QSB Stock & The New America Party? | E2148
Startup Valuations, Biotech's Crunch & AI's Massive TAM | E2147
The Grammarly–Superhuman Megadeal, plus TWiST 500 chats with LabelBox and Apptronik's founders | E2146
Rebuilding Civilization from First Principles: Inside Balaji's Network State Vision | E2145
Travis' Uber Comeback, AGI's Stakes, Meta's $100M AI Hires & Prediction Market Gold Rush | E2144
Multi-Agent AI, Open Protocols & Startup Acceleration with Saurabh Tiwary | AI Basics
VC Roundtable: Recruiting Secrets, Second-Time Founders & Product-Market Fit Myths | E2143
AI Producers, Tesla Robotaxis & the Rise of the "Tiny Teams" Era | E2142
The Strip Mining Era of LLMs—And Why It's About to End | E2141
From Drones to Dystopia: The Future of Jobs, Fires & Meta's AI Land Grab | E2140
Meta, Scale, and the Future of AI Labeling: Did Zuck Just Kill a Category? | E2139
Stripe's Crypto Wallet, M&A Momentum, and Robots Replacing Soul-Crushing Jobs | E2138
TWIST VC Roundtable: Startup Valuations, Secondary Markets & the YC Revenue Illusion | E2137
YC Valuations, VC Slowdown, and Office Hours with CustomerIQ | E2136
Circle's IPO Soars, The Future of VC and Cursor's Crazy Growth | E2135
Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf, Deel Rewrites the Narrative and Flock Safety's Surveillance Tech | E2134
Grammarly's $1B Round, Brain Computers, and NYT Licenses To Amazon | E2133
How AthenaHQ and Browser Use Are Building the Next Layer of the Internet | E2132
Google's AI Design Tool, Salesforce's $8B Comeback Deal, and M&A Momentum Builds | E2131
Apple's Tariff Trouble, Anthropic's New Models, and Our Founder Friday Finale | E2130
David Friedberg on AI-First Startups & the Future of Biology, Business & Creativity | AI Basics with Google Cloud
Jony Ive Joins OpenAI, Waymo Hits 10M Rides, and How to Launch a Marketplace from Scratch | E2129
Drones, Design, and Digital Espionage | E2128
Microsoft Layoffs, Immigration Blunders, & Office Hours with Jeremy Redman of Airfive | E2127
Chime's IPO, Databricks' $1B Acquisition & Dave Rubin's Media Empire | E2126
Agentic AI Meets Cybersecurity + Solar Robots in the Desert | E2125
Anti-Work Uprising, Copyright Wars & the StreamFog Solution | E2124
OpenAI Scoops Instacart's CEO, AI in the Courtroom & Off-Road Startups | E2123
Zoox Crash Fallout, COATUE's $1B Open Fund, and Office Hours with FusionAds | E2122
Cursor's $9B Round, AI-Powered Toys & CloudNuro's SaaS Fix | E2121
Apple's App Store Loss, AI Persuasion, and an Interview with Tyler Denk of Beehiiv | E2120
What's Next for AI Infrastructure with Amin Vahdat | AI Basics with Google Cloud
Bittensor's Rise, Meta's Llama Goes Cloud, & AI Now Writes Your Code | E2119
Meta's Dangerous Chat, Protect AI & Founder Fridays Pitch Comp | E2118
Discord's Power Move, Slate's Modular EVs & the "Act for Private Gain" | E2117
Cursor's $300M ARR, Uber's FTC Battle, and Office Hours with GoShare | E2116
Robot Lifeguards, TapCheck's Payday Play & Thalamus's Wild Market Share | E2115
LMArena Goes Startup, AI App Wars Begin, Scott Bair's Design Playbook | E2114
AI Progress and Impact on Ecosystem Players with CapitalG's Jill Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud
Cuts CEO Talks Tariffs, Figma's IPO Buzz, and a Nerd Crawler Update | E2113
Vertical AI Innovations: Abacus LLM in Finance & Synthesia's Video Avatars | E2112
HuggingFace Buys Pollen Robotics, DHH & Bezos Founder Advice & a JCal Origin Story | E2111
Palantir's Fellowship, Coco Robots & Startup Office Hours | E2110
70mph Drone Deliveries, 125% Tariffs & What $10M Exits Really Mean | E2109
Economic Chaos, More Pitch Madness & the Shopify AI Manifesto | E2108
Rippling Targets $16B, Market Chaos, TikTok Timeout, and Office Hours | E2107
Spycraft in SaaS, Rabbit's Comeback, and Startup Pitch Madness | E2106
M&A Mania, Palantir Meme Crash + Office Hours with Hookhub | E2105
AI Revolution Gains, Non-Consensus Startups & Prosperous AI | E2104
11x in Trouble and China's AI Acceleration | E2103
23andMe BANKRUPT, Saylor Still Buying Bitcoin, + Founder Interviews | E2102
Fact-Checking Mark Rober, and the Fall of TechCrunch | E2101
Tesla vs. Mark Rober, Google's $32B M&A Bet, & XRP's SEC Victory | E2100
AI-Powered Coding & Space Tugboats? Inside the Future of Software & Satellites! | E2099
Self-Driving Car Myths, Klarna's Big IPO & Netflix's $300M Gamble | E2098
Europe's Startup Future with Harry Stebbings | E2097
Is Project Europe a YC Riff? Nick Denton is Back! And more! | E2096
The Future of AI Customer Support with LiveX AI's Jia Li | AI Basics with Google Cloud
Student Roy Lee Hacks Amazon, SBF's Jailhouse Chat + more! | E2095
AI's Next Leap: Hyper-Realistic Agents & Unlimited Power | E2094
Coreweave IPO, AVRide & Digg is Back! | E2093
AI Agents & the Future of Work with LangChain's Harrison Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud
US Crypto Reserve Bombshell, Ramp's $13B Climb, & more | E2092
Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091
The Incredible Double Interview: Superhuman and Robinhood | E2090
Apple Drops $500B on AI while Google Gemini Eyes Your iOS Devices! | E2089
Castelion Hypersonic Missiles and Crunchbase's AI Powered Predictions | E2088
EV Truck Startup Nikola Runs Out of Juice | E2087
Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086
IPO Shakeups, NVIDIA's Big Bets & Must-Know Founder Hacks | E2085
Slow Ventures' Creators Fund and Helion Energy's Fusion Reactors | 2084
Tech's Super Bowl, Huge Earnings Week, Lon Returns and more! | E2083
Gas Stations in Space and Carried Interest on the Chopping Block | E2082
Is Palantir's Surge Just Hype | E2081
Lovable's Anton Osika on Revolutionizing Software Development and OpenAI Drops Deep Research | E2080
Is OpenAI Really Worth $300B? ElevenLabs' Series C & YC's Funding Focus | E2079
Boom Supersonic's Milestones, OpenAI Ethics, and Startup Tools | E2078
DeepSeek Rattles Markets + SailPoint's Going Public… again? | E2077