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

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Created By Humans | Sila's Battery Evolution | E2075

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

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

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

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

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

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Meta's Moderation and Nvidia's Domination | E2069

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

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

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2024 TWISTY Awards | E2066

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ghost Engineers, Measuring Productivity, & Memecoin Scams | E2056

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How Startups Can Crush Enterprise AI Sales | E2050

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Data Centers and Energy with Phil Deutch | E2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Venture returns, recovering startups, and VC conflicts | E1995

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

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

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

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

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

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Liquidity Summit Talks: Antonio Gracias and Gavin Baker | E1990

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TWiST 500! Huntress, TollBit & Cyera | E1989

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

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The $97 Billion VC Panel | E1987

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

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