This Week in Startups

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We asked 3 VCs: would you invest in Elizabeth Holmes’ next startup? | E2353

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Oct 22
1 h 41 min

Anthropic Gives Away 5% of Its Shares, Clone’s Muscle Robot, ElevenLabs Steals Podcaster's Voice

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Oct 20
1 h 34 min

Flying Cars, OpenAI Spies, Why AI Isn’t Sticking (Superhuman CEO)

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Oct 17
1 h 33 min

The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI

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Oct 15
1 h 00 min

The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349

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Oct 12
1 h 20 min

Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato

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Oct 10
1 h 24 min

What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347

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Oct 8
1 h 18 min

Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346

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Oct 7
1 h 10 min

Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345

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Oct 3
53 min

Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344

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Oct 1
1 h 18 min

Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338

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Sep 28
40 min

The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy

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Sep 28
50 min

A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342

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Sep 25
1 h 25 min

VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341

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Sep 23
1 h 27 min

Elon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340

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Sep 21
1 h 09 min

Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339

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Sep 18
1 h 33 min

Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339

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Sep 18
1 h 33 min

90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics

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Sep 15
19 min

Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337

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Sep 14
1 h 11 min

The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336

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Sep 11
1 h 12 min

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What listeners say

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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

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