This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis · en-us · 1485 episodes

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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Hosted by: Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar and Zapier CMO Kieran Flannigan
Apurva Mehta and Jack Altman on Sam Altman, CalPERS, and Liquidation Preferences | E1927 · 2024-04-06
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Hosted by: Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar and Zapier CMO Kieran Flannigan
Dave Mcclure & Jordan Stein on YC, "Spray and Pray", and Games VCs Play | E1923 · 2024-03-30
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Link in episode "The new rules for hiring, building, and betting on AI | This Week in AI E002": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-startups/id315114957
The new rules for hiring, building, and betting on AI | This Week in AI E002 · 2026-02-25
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Apple's App Store Loss, AI Persuasion, and an Interview with Tyler Denk of Beehiiv | E2120
Apple's App Store Loss, AI Persuasion, and an Interview with Tyler Denk of Beehiiv | E2120 · 2025-05-02
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90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics
90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics · 2026-09-15
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Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics
Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics · 2026-08-20
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How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320
How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320 · 2026-08-03
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Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319
Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319 · 2026-07-31
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Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305
Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305 · 2026-06-27
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This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295
This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 · 2026-06-01
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Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics
Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics · 2026-04-30
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Bittensor's (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275
Bittensor's (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275 · 2026-04-14
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The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268
The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gia… · 2026-03-27
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How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev
How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev · 2026-03-18
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Kill Your Startup's Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254
Kill Your Startup's Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) |… · 2026-02-24
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Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247
Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247 · 2026-02-10
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Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245
Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245 · 2026-02-04
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How OpenClaw (Clawdbot) Is Rewriting the Way Our Team Works with Rahul Sood | E2242
How OpenClaw (Clawdbot) Is Rewriting the Way Our Team Works with Rahul Sood | E2242 · 2026-01-31
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How decriminalization led to an explosion in cannabis startups (Feat. Ford Smith, Andrew Duffy, and Socrates Rosenfeld) | E2241
How decriminalization led to an explosion in cannabis startups (Feat. Ford Smith, Andrew … · 2026-01-29
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Why You'll Choose an AI Doctor (feat. Fred Almeida and Max Weiss) | E2239
Why You'll Choose an AI Doctor (feat. Fred Almeida and Max Weiss) | E2239 · 2026-01-24
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Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235
Japan's Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235 · 2026-01-14
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Secrets of Startup Recruiting in the US AND Japan! (feat. Sho Takei) | E2233
Secrets of Startup Recruiting in the US AND Japan! (feat. Sho Takei) | E2233 · 2026-01-13
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Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236
Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236 · 2026-01-16
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AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231
AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231 · 2026-01-08
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INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225
INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansa… · 2025-12-18
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Level up your copywriting w/ Sam Parr | E2226
Level up your copywriting w/ Sam Parr | E2226 · 2025-12-20
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"The best founders find a way to make it happen": VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David Clark | E2222
"The best founders find a way to make it happen": VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David … · 2025-12-11
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FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221
FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Fos… · 2025-12-10
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Getting past the "Cardinal Sins of Delegating" with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218
Getting past the "Cardinal Sins of Delegating" with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218 · 2025-12-04
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Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212
Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212 · 2025-11-20
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Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214
Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214 · 2025-11-24
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Stop ghosting your friends with Nox's RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209
Stop ghosting your friends with Nox's RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback… · 2025-11-14
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Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208
Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208 · 2025-11-13
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Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204
Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay… · 2025-11-06
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iPhone Air is "inspiring," and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200
iPhone Air is "inspiring," and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of Spa… · 2025-10-29
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Amazon's "Age of Efficiency," LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197
Amazon's "Age of Efficiency," LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad G… · 2025-10-22
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What Ramp's data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192
What Ramp's data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192 · 2025-10-13
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Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190
Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US… · 2025-10-09
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Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186 · 2025-09-30
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Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics
Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics · 2025-09-18

Episodes

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

2026-10-05 · 71 min · This Week in Startups · 17 entities
Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345

2026-10-03 · 53 min · This Week in Startups · 18 entities
Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344

2026-10-01 · 78 min · This Week in Startups · 23 entities
Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338

2026-09-28 · 41 min · This Week in Startups · 9 entities
The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy

2026-09-28 · 50 min · This Week in Startups · 30 entities
A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342

2026-09-25 · 86 min · This Week in Startups · 21 entities
VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341

2026-09-23 · 87 min · This Week in Startups · 19 entities
Elon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340

2026-09-21 · 70 min · This Week in Startups · 18 entities
Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339

2026-09-18 · 94 min · This Week in Startups · 20 entities
90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics

2026-09-15 · 19 min · This Week in Startups · 11 entities
Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337

2026-09-14 · 71 min · This Week in Startups · 16 entities
The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336

2026-09-11 · 73 min · This Week in Startups · 19 entities
Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play

2026-09-10 · 23 min · This Week in Startups · 13 entities
Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335

2026-09-09 · 81 min · This Week in Startups · 19 entities
Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334

2026-09-04 · 58 min · This Week in Startups · 22 entities

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