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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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StoneAlgo's Devin Jones on "Zillow for diamonds" + Mar Hershenson on the art of picking | E1766

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Breaking down Bard with Google's Jack Krawczyk | E1752

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

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

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

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Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1748

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mining asteroids with AstroForge CEO Matthew Gialich | E1736

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1725

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

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Google's search engine "panic," AI-generated hits, Coinbase considers leaving US market | E1723

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1714

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

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

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Stephen Wolfram on AI's rapid progress & the "Post-Knowledge Work Era" | E1711

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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