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This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanisthisweekinstartups.com
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.

Episodes

AI Demos: Llama 3 Innovations, vibecheck, Globe Engineer, Wisdolia and Tesla’s FSD | E1941

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Apr 30, 20241 hr 14 min

How AI and remote work is coming for your job | E1940

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Apr 29, 20241 hr 17 min

PodcastAI: Edward Brawer is here to be your podcast’s arms dealer! | E1939

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Apr 26, 202451 min

The power of super communication with Charles Duhigg | E1938

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Apr 26, 20241 hr 19 min

Ask Jason LIVE!: Navigating startup growth with Real-Time Q&A | E1937

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Apr 25, 20241 hr 18 min

AI Demos and News: Llama 3, Marblism, Lumona & AI Jet-Fighter Dogfights | E1936

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Apr 23, 202455 min

AI Demos: Meta AI Ups it’s Game with Llama 3 | E1935

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Apr 20, 202453 min

Redpoint Ventures and Stepstone Group on VC Deployment, M&A, and Google's AI Strategy | E1934

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Apr 19, 20241 hr 12 min

Destiny (D/XYZ) and the Buzz Around Public Access to Private Companies | E1933

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Apr 17, 202444 min

Startup pitch competition! Jason invests $25K into one of three founders | E1932

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Apr 17, 202454 min

Udio AI’s Music Magic, Aqua’s Unique Dictation, Copyright Laws & the 1000x Potential of AI  | E1931

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Apr 14, 20241 hr

Tomasz Tunguz and David Clark on how to invest in AI and Q1 2024 startup valuations | E1930

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Apr 12, 20241 hr 16 min

The Alef Model A and the future of flying cars with Alef CEO Jim Dukhovny | E1929

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Apr 11, 202448 min

Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on liquid neural networks, AI advancement, the race to AGI & more! | E1928

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Apr 09, 20241 hr 4 min

Apurva Mehta and Jack Altman on Sam Altman, CalPERS, and Liquidation Preferences | E1927

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Apr 06, 20241 hr 3 min

Growth Hacks for Startups from Elliot Shmukler of InstaCart, LinkedIn and now Anomalo | E1926

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Apr 05, 202450 min

CoreWeave’s Brannin McBee on the future of AI infrastructure, GPU economics, & data centers | E1925

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Apr 04, 202456 min

The state of modern answer engines, AI demos, and more! | E1924

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Apr 03, 20241 hr 3 min

Dave Mcclure & Jordan Stein on YC, "Spray and Pray", and Games VCs Play | E1923

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Mar 30, 20242 hr 31 min

Empathic AI and its role in understanding human emotions with Hume AI’s Alan Cowen | E1922

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Mar 29, 202456 min

Ask Jason LIVE!: Unpacking Startup Strategies with Real-Time Q&A | E1921

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Mar 27, 20241 hr 10 min

AI Demos: Gatekeep, Deepgram, Claude 3 Haiku and more! | E1920

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Mar 26, 20241 hr

Kleiner Perkins and Penn’s Endowment on India, loss ratios, and the rise of secondaries | E1919

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Mar 22, 20241 hr 11 min

Microsoft consumes Inflection and AI Demos from Suno, Cohere, Deepseek VL and more! | E1918

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Mar 21, 202454 min

Optimizing fund structure, GP market fit, & more with Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode | Episode 1917

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Mar 21, 202449 min

The future of enterprise search and AI-powered work productivity with Glean’s Arvind Jain | E1916

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Mar 20, 202452 min

Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915

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Mar 19, 202454 min

2024 VC trends, portfolio construction, & more with Churchill's Raja Doddala | E1914

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Mar 14, 20241 hr 4 min

Melengo's Justin Kwong on the future of end-to-end clothing manufacturing | E1913

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Mar 14, 20241 hr

AI Demos: Claude 3's Opus, Mistral, Groq Playground, EMO by Ali Baba | E1912

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Mar 12, 20241 hr 3 min