This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world's greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.

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Breaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331 2026-08-28 · 108m Read →
Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330 2026-08-26 · 91m Read →
You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics 2026-08-25 · 25m Read →
China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329 2026-08-25 · 80m Read →
Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328 2026-08-21 · 69m
Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics 2026-08-20 · 21m
Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327 2026-08-19 · 54m
Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326 2026-08-17 · 85m
What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325 2026-08-15 · 80m
These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns 2026-08-12 · 64m
Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323 2026-08-11 · 80m
How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322 2026-08-07 · 78m
Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321 2026-08-05 · 73m
How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320 2026-08-03 · 62m
Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319 2026-07-31 · 75m
Banning Chinese robots isn't regulatory capture | E2318 2026-07-29 · 86m
While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317 2026-07-27 · 44m
Why quantum has been "10 years away" for 30 years | E2316 2026-07-24 · 45m
Why this longevity startup raised in Japan, not Silicon Valley | TWiST Tokyo | E2315 2026-07-22 · 72m
The AI Securing Your Workforce Before a Mistake Ever Becomes a Breach | E2314 2026-07-20 · 42m
The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313 2026-07-17 · 47m
A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312 2026-07-15 · 74m
Jason turned $11 and one tweet into 1.1M views | E2311 2026-07-13 · 90m
Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310 2026-07-10 · 61m
Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market 2026-07-08 · 66m
$100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308 2026-07-06 · 58m
Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307 2026-07-01 · 74m
Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure 2026-06-29 · 72m
Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305 2026-06-27 · 90m
Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table 2026-06-24 · 69m
The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303 2026-06-22 · 63m
Why SpaceX Buying Cursor Changes Everything 2026-06-18 · 101m
The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon… 2026-06-15 · 101m
SpaceX IPO Day: What Wall St. and the media missed | E2300 2026-06-13 · 80m
Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299 2026-06-10 · 68m
The AI Tutor That Makes Kids Actually Think | E2298 2026-06-08 · 60m
Anthropic wants to slow AI down and Bernie wants 50%: JCal Reacts | E2297 2026-06-06 · 93m
The project SpaceX's first employee raised $500M for 2026-06-03 · 62m
This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 2026-06-01 · 66m
How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026: Ask Jason | E2294 2026-05-29 · 58m
The Drone Company Quietly Taking Over Delivery 2026-05-27 · 61m
From hypercars to cruise missiles: Lukas Czinger on the future of US defense | E2292 2026-05-23 · 107m
Avi Patel on the startup that copied Kled and why he called out General Catalyst by name | E2291 2026-05-20 · 94m
Why does Gen Z hate AI? 2026-05-18 · 69m
The Self-Driving Startup Nobody Saw Coming | E2289 2026-05-15 · 73m
How Many Startups Will Survive OpenAI? | E2288 2026-05-13 · 85m
How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You) 2026-05-13 · 68m
Cerebras's IPO goes vertical, and the death of OpenClaw? | E2287 2026-05-11 · 83m
5,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286 2026-05-09 · 72m
The end of Venture Capital? (VC Roundtable) | E2285 2026-05-06 · 84m
Naval's GP, Ankur Nagpal, Breaks Down The Viral "USVC" Fund | E2284 2026-05-05 · 98m
Can an AI Agent Legally Own a Company? Christian van der Henst's Wild Experiment| E2283 2026-05-01 · 70m
Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics 2026-04-30 · 23m
The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282 2026-04-29 · 56m
China Kills Meta / Manus Deal (Story Of The Year) | E2281 2026-04-28 · 53m
Naval's $500 VC fund, the Maduro Polymarket scandal, and NYT defends theft and murder | E2280 2026-04-25 · 50m
The Defense Tech Startup YC Kicked Out of a Meeting is Now Arming America | E2280 2026-04-25 · 59m
SpaceX and Cursor team up to topple Claude Code | E2279 2026-04-22 · 74m
Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278 2026-04-21 · 77m
3D-Printed Homes for $99K: ICON's Jason Ballard on the future of housing | E2277 2026-04-18 · 107m
This 22-Year-Old Built TikTok for Mobile Games, and It's Growing Fast | E2276 2026-04-15 · 63m
Bittensor's (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275 2026-04-14 · 79m
Bittensor Drama! TAO down 15%! | E2274 2026-04-11 · 82m
Anthropic's Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can't have it | E2273 2026-04-09 · 77m
3 AI Agents That Actually Replaced Human Jobs | E2272 2026-04-07 · 79m
AI Rebuilt Every YC W26 Startup. Should Founders Be Scared? | E2271 2026-04-03 · 81m
How 3 CEOs Use AI to Run $10B in Companies | This Week in AI 2026-04-02 · 30m
Venture Roundtable: SpaceX IPO, AI's PR Crisis, and the Defense Tech Bubble | E2270 2026-04-01 · 88m
The 5-Step Framework for AI Agents That Improve While You Sleep | E2269 2026-03-31 · 87m
The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268 2026-03-27 · 99m
This Bittensor Subnet Could Cut Drug Discovery Costs in HALF | E2267 2026-03-26 · 73m
$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6 2026-03-25 · 75m
Compliance Startup Scandal... Is Delve Guilty? | E2266 2026-03-24 · 87m
The Drone Company Everyone Thought Was Illegal (Now Worth $4B+) | E2265 2026-03-20 · 99m
How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev 2026-03-18 · 50m
Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans? 2026-03-16 · 74m
One Genius Rule That Made This Coffee Brand Famous | EP 2262 2026-03-14 · 90m
The Global Expansion of Self-Driving Vehicles 2026-03-11 · 69m
How agents will change banking forever | E2260 2026-03-10 · 61m
How agents will change banking forever | E2260 2026-03-10 · 61m
Wisdom of the $TAO: the future is decentralized AI 2026-03-06 · 68m
Is Anthropic Making the Biggest Mistake in AI History | E2258 2026-03-05 · 81m
How the OpenClaw foundation bullet-proofed its future (w/Dave Morin) | E2257 2026-03-03 · 75m
The Biggest Private Funding Round in History | E2256 2026-02-28 · 80m
Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252 2026-02-26 · 82m
Kill Your Startup's Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254 2026-02-24 · 79m
We Asked 3 Experts How to Get More Value out of OpenClaw | E2253 2026-02-21 · 69m
When Will Openclaw go Mainstream? | E2252 2026-02-19 · 62m
Will OpenAI Tank OpenClaw? | E2251 2026-02-17 · 87m
OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250 2026-02-14 · 66m
Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249 2026-02-12 · 40m
How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248 2026-02-12 · 45m
Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247 2026-02-10 · 68m
We built OpenClaw Ultron to replace 20 people at our company | E2246 2026-02-07 · 71m
Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245 2026-02-04 · 54m
Where early-stage founders MUST focus to success | E2244 2026-02-03 · 67m
SpaceX + xAI deal gets us one step closer to Musk Industries | E2243 2026-02-03 · 62m
How OpenClaw (Clawdbot) Is Rewriting the Way Our Team Works with Rahul Sood | E2242 2026-01-31 · 88m
How decriminalization led to an explosion in cannabis startups (Feat. Ford Smith, Andrew Duffy, and Socrates Rosenfeld) | E2241 2026-01-29 · 56m
Clawdbot is an inflection point in AI history | E2240 2026-01-27 · 62m
Why You'll Choose an AI Doctor (feat. Fred Almeida and Max Weiss) | E2239 2026-01-24 · 63m
From Blood Transfusions to Burritos, How Zipline is Automating Delivery | E2238 2026-01-21 · 64m
How startups suddenly became "cool" in Japan (feat. Shin Takamiya of Globis Capital) | E2237 2026-01-20 · 58m
Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236 2026-01-16 · 63m
Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 2026-01-14 · 68m
How to Make Billions from Exposing Fraud | E2234 2026-01-13 · 65m
Secrets of Startup Recruiting in the US AND Japan! (feat. Sho Takei) | E2233 2026-01-13 · 52m
Jason's Top CES Products and Takeaways | E2232 2026-01-10 · 69m
AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231 2026-01-08 · 67m
2026 Starts with a bang: META AI Drama and Nvidia's $20B Groq Acquisition | E2230 2026-01-06 · 55m
THE 2025 TWISTY AWARDS! Biggest Trends, Best Guests, Top Name Drops, and more | E2229 2025-12-30 · 56m
Jason's ultimate dream mega-purchase + Founder Q's | E2228 2025-12-29 · 45m
Waymo Madness in SF! Why robotaxis clogged the streets | E2227 2025-12-23 · 60m
Level up your copywriting w/ Sam Parr | E2226 2025-12-20 · 66m
INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225 2025-12-18 · 87m
Is this the end for the Roomba? Why iRobot went bankrupt | E2224 2025-12-16 · 61m
Disney and OpenAI sign landmark deal… and we saw it coming! | E2223 2025-12-13 · 58m
"The best founders find a way to make it happen": VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David Clark | E2222 2025-12-11 · 70m
FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221 2025-12-10 · 77m
What's REALLY going on with those "ads" in ChatGPT | E2220 2025-12-09 · 62m
Netflix buys WB + why Jason should run Disney | E2219 2025-12-06 · 63m
Getting past the "Cardinal Sins of Delegating" with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218 2025-12-04 · 57m
Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217 2025-12-03 · 86m
Is $MSTR over? Jason takes his victory lap. | E2216 2025-12-02 · 58m
SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215 2025-11-26 · 76m
Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214 2025-11-24 · 52m
Jason predicts a "major M&A moment" in the next six months! | E2213 2025-11-22 · 56m
Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212 2025-11-20 · 65m
AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211 2025-11-19 · 47m
Archer buys an airport, Ramp's huge raise, RIP KitKat, Bezos returns to the C-Suite, and more | E2210 2025-11-18 · 74m
Stop ghosting your friends with Nox's RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209 2025-11-14 · 74m
Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208 2025-11-13 · 74m
Inside Harvey AI's $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207 2025-11-11 · 63m
IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206 2025-11-10 · 65m
It's a boat, it's a plane, it's REGENT's Seafarer | E2205 2025-11-08 · 75m
Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204 2025-11-06 · 84m
Sending datacenters into orbit | E2203 2025-11-03 · 78m
What will be OpenAI's IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202 2025-11-01 · 79m
Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201 2025-10-30 · 99m
iPhone Air is "inspiring," and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200 2025-10-29 · 79m
Jason Unpacks Sequoia's New Funds | E2199 2025-10-28 · 82m
If you're not working 9-9-6, are you working hard enough? | E2198 2025-10-25 · 61m
Amazon's "Age of Efficiency," LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197 2025-10-22 · 84m
Magic School uses AI to help kids learn, not cheat | E2196 2025-10-22 · 58m
Just how frothy is the AI Bubble anyway? | E2195 2025-10-21 · 59m
Deel's growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great "momentum is moat" debate | E2194 2025-10-18 · 78m
Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193 2025-10-16 · 90m
What Ramp's data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192 2025-10-13 · 76m
Figure's 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191 2025-10-10 · 69m
Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190 2025-10-09 · 71m
We're Hiring! Join the This Week in Startups Team 2025-10-08 · 2m
OpenAI's latest "bizarre" mega-deal, datacenters in space, previewing Tesla's big announcement and more | E2189 2025-10-07 · 76m
Sora app review, Perplexity's Comet is FREE, and which AI tools reign supreme? | E2188 2025-10-04 · 63m
Sora 2, Tilly Norwood, and the New Slop Era | E2187 2025-10-02 · 55m
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186 2025-09-30 · 65m
Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185 2025-09-29 · 60m
Is there an AI coding bubble? Plus Meta's new SlopTok product, Neon's divisive app shuts down, and more | E2184 2025-09-27 · 87m
The rise of "workslop," Alibaba's insane new deepfake model, Tether's MASSIVE valuation, and more | E2183 2025-09-25 · 82m
Jason's H-1B pitch, the latest on the TikTok deal, and Howie's first ad | E2182 2025-09-23 · 75m
Meta's "creepy" new Ray Bans, Beehiiv teams with Discord, AND a visit from Lovable CEO Anton Osika! | E2181 2025-09-19 · 75m
Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics 2025-09-18 · 18m
Tesla and Uber team up! Plus Weave Robotics' Isaac and $OPEN bull Eric Jackson | E2180 2025-09-17 · 72m
Why Medium is HIDING from AI | E2179 2025-09-16 · 70m
Robinhood Venture Fund, Polymarket adds earnings, and LAUNCH Accelerator 35 is here! | E2178 2025-09-15 · 60m
All-In Summit Highlights, Schools Could Block Social Media, FTC Chatbot Investigation, and Zoox hits Vegas | E2177 2025-09-13 · 89m
AI Copyright & Training Data w/ Chris Paniewski | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics 2025-09-11 · 18m
Republic opens private markets as Positron takes on GPUs: A TWiST500 doubleheader! | E2176 2025-09-10 · 57m
How Founders Are Building the Next Great Startups | Paid.ai, iTruckr & Tenax AI | E2175 2025-09-09 · 77m
The Browser Wars heat up! PLUS, Khan on The Bulwark, rules for great domain names, and Polymarket returns | E2174 2025-09-05 · 79m
Creative Structures w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics 2025-09-04 · 23m
Uber, Lucid & Nuro team up on robotaxis by 2026 | E2173 2025-09-03 · 75m
Jason's Tesla Optimus prediction, Anthropic's latest mega-raise and more | E2172 2025-09-03 · 71m
KPop Demon Hunters breaks records, Grok speeds up, and an AI-powered browser deep dive | E2171 2025-08-29 · 61m
Market Update and Trends w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics 2025-08-28 · 26m
Google is Nano Banana, Apple AI plans & The Great H1B Visa Debate | E2170 2025-08-27 · 90m
xAI's App Store lawsuit, Intel shares vs. grocery stores, and Netskope's IPO | E2169 2025-08-26 · 74m
Do Kwon Guilty, Powell Pivot & OpenAI's $12B Run Rate | E2168 2025-08-22 · 77m
Is Chalk.ai the 'Next Databricks'? + Tollbit's Bot Paywall for AI Agents | E2167 2025-08-20 · 59m
Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom's Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud 2025-08-19 · 31m
Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166 2025-08-18 · 38m
Meta's "Sensual" AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor's dreams became memes + OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165 2025-08-15 · 57m
The End of the ZIRP Era, and why recruiting is SO PAINFUL | E2164 2025-08-14 · 81m
GPT Psychosis is spreading, the NYT is Super-Doxxing Zuck, and Trump is wetting his beak on Chinese chip exports | E2163 2025-08-12 · 76m
GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162 2025-08-08 · 79m
Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161 2025-08-07 · 73m
Lina Khan's Figma victory lap, Meta's Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160 2025-08-05 · 69m
TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159 2025-08-01 · 84m
All Star Investor Panel! Sophia Amoruso and Ryan Hoover | E2158 2025-07-30 · 74m
Figma IPO, IMAX AI Festival, the Tea app spill, that one Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and more! | E2157 2025-07-29 · 74m
Behind the scenes at the ALL-IN AI SUMMIT w/ POTUS, JD Vance, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and more… | E2156 2025-07-25 · 64m
AUTOMATING HEALTH CARE, THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING, AND PRODUCT VELOCITY | E2155 2025-07-23 · 81m
Manufacturing in the US, Building in Open Source… and more | E2154 2025-07-21 · 83m
Inside Substack's $100M Push to Fend Off Beehiiv | E2153 2025-07-18 · 73m
Thinking Machines' RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152 2025-07-17 · 68m
Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151 2025-07-14 · 61m
Grok 4 Beats OpenAI + The $300 AI Agent Era | E2150 2025-07-12 · 71m
Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs' Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud 2025-07-10 · 22m
Starlink + Tesla? $4T Nvidia? Perplexity Browser? Linda Yaccarino Steps Down? | E2149 2025-07-09 · 66m
Cloud Seeding, Conspiracies & the Texas Floods | BONUS EPISODE! 2025-07-09 · 26m
Exits Are Back, QSB Stock & The New America Party? | E2148 2025-07-07 · 67m
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