This Week in Startups

Chart trend

Position in the Technology chart (US), last 90 days.

#1#57#112JunJulAugSep

#17

all-time peak

407

days in the top 50 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

Showing 20 · updated from the feed

The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336

This Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean — Want to see what building on a true AI-native platform looks like? Head to do.co/twist to start building o

Sep 11
1 h 12 min

Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Wilson Sonsini: https://www.wsgr.com/en/ Today's show: One of YouTube's three co-founders left for grad school and

Sep 10
22 min

Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent - https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain NetSuite - https://www.netsuite.ai/twist

Sep 9
1 h 21 min

Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo - http://Odoo.com/twist Northwest Registered Agent - https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Rippling -

Sep 4
58 min

Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Wilson Sonsini Today's show: Spinouts are everywhere right now, and most founders get the cap table wrong. Jason sits

Sep 3
17 min

VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333

VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333 This Week In Startups is made possible by: partner 1 - link partner 2 - link partner 3 - link To

Sep 2
1 h 20 min

Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain CLA https://claconnect.com/withyou Rippli

Aug 31
1 h 06 min

Breaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331

This Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean https://do.co/twist Every.io https://every.io PayPal https://paypal.launch.co Today's show: *Nvi

Aug 28
1 h 48 min

Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Lightfield https://lightfield.app Northwest Registered Agent https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain Rippl

Aug 26
1 h 31 min

You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

Today's show: Can a founder actually fire a board member? Short answer: almost never. And the reason why may surprise a lot of founders. On this edition of Legal Basi

Aug 25
24 min

China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Quo https://quo.com/TWiST Conservation Fund https://conservationfund.org how old a movie

Aug 25
1 h 20 min

Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Superhuman https://Superhuman.com Sentry https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield https://lightfield.app Today's show

Aug 21
1 h 09 min

Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics

The TWiST AI Basics series is made possible by Google Cloud! Build context-aware AI workflows using DeepMind models and orchestration tools with Google for Startups' ne

Aug 20
21 min

Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta https://www.vanta.com/twist Agree https://agree.com YSecurity https://YSecurity.io/TWIST Today's show: F

Aug 19
54 min

Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist DigitalOcean https://do.co/twist Odoo https://Od

Aug 17
1 h 24 min

What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal Open https://paypal.launch.co CLA https://claconnect.com/withyou Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's sho

Aug 15
1 h 20 min

These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns

These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns This Week In Startups is made possible by: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/twist Northwest Registe

Aug 12
1 h 03 min

Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Every.io https://every.io NetSuite https://NetSuite.ai/TWIST YSecurity https://YSecurity.io/TWIST Today's show:

Aug 11
1 h 20 min

How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322

This Week In Startups is made possible by: DigitalOcean https://do.co/twist Sentry https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield https://lightfield.app Today's show:

Aug 7
1 h 18 min

Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta https://www.vanta.com/twist Agree https://agree.com Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's show: *Airtable

Aug 5
1 h 12 min

Chart positions

Where This Week in Startups ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 12, 2026).

#79 ▲ 18 Technology US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

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.

ProstCFC · May 2023

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.

papio2 · Nov 2022

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).

Madden Thomas · Jul 2022

I’ve been listening to This Week in Startups for four years now. I loved it from the start. Jason is so smart and cut throat which is what tech founders need. I think with his connections and great contacts he has the best spread of topics to talk about with knowledge. I hated Molly Wood being a host, she would just try to play devils advocate with everything Jason said with no actual knowledge or experience. She would ruin most shows with her crazy leftist thought process. I’m glad Jason got rid of her and now back to full speed ahead with great topics, guests and insights. The best in tech/investing podcast there is.

Cermoot · Apr 2023

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.

ffs_allthenicknamesaretaken · Feb 2023

I used to listen consistently for many years. Lately, I skip most episodes and end up abandoning most I start. Except when there’s interesting guest, content is mostly banal, surface level and gossipy, with many ad interruptions. I miss the deeper and insightful conversations that kept me loyal listener for years. At this rate, I may unsubscribe altogether.

@JMichaelN · Jan 2023

We strive to present a balanced view by showing a diverse range of reviews from Apple Podcasts.