This Week in Startups - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Jason and Molly. First time reviewer, long time listener. Shame on me but love your work. This is my river guide to the venture market as an allocator - these timely insights are invaluable for investors far from the valley (TX).

As a startup tech founder and also a managing partner in a VC, I love listening to your pod show. It gives me insights of what’s going on with everyone so I’m always learning and growing.

I’ve been listening to TWiST for several years and have seen it go through changes, some good, some not so good. I really enjoy the interviews Jason does with founders and investors, and his takes on current event and news. I didn’t love the addition of Molly, though at the same time I thought she was a good co-host and I appreciated her perspective. I do find it unfortunate that there was clearly an acrimonious divorce, despite neither party acknowledging it (and not even announcing her departure for at least a week when it was totally obvious; very bizzare), but I like that the show is getting back to what got me listening in the first place.

I love the addition of Molly Wood. I feel her and Jason together are a great balance. I recommend this show to all my clients. Great stuff!

I want to like this. It’s just too tiring and life is too short.

The show presents good topics of discussion but unfortunately regularly devolves into judgmental and opinionated hot takes. It’s one thing to have an opinion - but when it clouds your intellect it’s not a good look.

Episode 1677 is an example. Jason uses the word “woke” which then triggers Molly into going off in a rant about how that’s a derogatory term used by people who don’t care about other people’s feelings, and then proceeds to single out a race and gender as being the issue (the irony).

No biggie right, but this episode is about bias in AI, particularly ideological bias on the part of people involved with model implementation and guard rails (eg censorship).

A point of discussion begins to center around whether subjectivity is appropriate for ai generated responses. However there seems to be obvious tone deafness (subjectivity) in picking examples over which ideological targets are subjectively answered and therefore inappropriate. The irony.

TLDR: this is like listening to NPC hot takes of the news. It’s a shame because they could be so much more if they allowed their own views evolve more often.

i appreciate Jason for creating this pod! the informations are priceless and the guests are top notch! i learned a lot from this pod but.... Molly "Karen" Wood can be very distracting with her tangents, so much that it derails from the topics that they were originally discussing and thus ruins the flow of the conversations for me. Jason is doing an exceptional job in reeling her back in and going back to topic. i still listen because of the information and just try to fast forward through "Karen's" rants and tangents.