This Week in Startups
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This Week in Startups
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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How startups suddenly became “cool” in Japan (feat. Shin Takamiya of Globis Capital) | E2237
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Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236
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Japan’s Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235
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How to Make Billions from Exposing Fraud | E2234
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Secrets of Startup Recruiting in the US AND Japan! (feat. Sho Takei) | E2233
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Jason’s Top CES Products and Takeaways | E2232
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AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231
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2026 Starts with a bang: META AI Drama and Nvidia’s $20B Groq Acquisition | E2230
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THE 2025 TWISTY AWARDS! Biggest Trends, Best Guests, Top Name Drops, and more | E2229
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Jason’s ultimate dream mega-purchase + Founder Q’s | E2228
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Waymo Madness in SF! Why robotaxis clogged the streets | E2227
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Level up your copywriting w/ Sam Parr | E2226
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INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225
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Is this the end for the Roomba? Why iRobot went bankrupt | E2224
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Disney and OpenAI sign landmark deal… and we saw it coming! | E2223
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“The best founders find a way to make it happen”: VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David Clark | E2222
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FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221
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What’s REALLY going on with those “ads” in ChatGPT | E2220
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Netflix buys WB + why Jason should run Disney | E2219
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Getting past the “Cardinal Sins of Delegating” with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218
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Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217
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Is $MSTR over? Jason takes his victory lap. | E2216
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SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215
Register here to join Founder University Japan’s kickoff! 👉🏻 https://luma.com/cm0x90mkToday’s show: On TWiST, Alex is chatting with Neubird CEO Gou...
Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214
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The team from Familify had...
Jason predicts a “major M&A moment” in the next six months! | E2213
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Google and Meta had their...
Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212
Today’s show:
The race for more compute gets all the headlines, but Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch tells us the REAL danger is running out of data...
AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211
AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211
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Archer buys an airport, Ramp’s huge raise, RIP KitKat, Bezos returns to the C-Suite, and more | E2210
*Are we finally reaching Peak eVTOL? Jason and Alex on Joby’s big Abu Dhabi moves and Archer’s purchase of LA’s Hawthorne Airport.
On a PACKED M...
Stop ghosting your friends with Nox’s RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209
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Nox’s new app RPLY reminds you to tex...
Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208
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Just getting our stuff into orbit isn’t enough… Orbital Oper...
Inside Harvey AI’s $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207
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IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206
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*Three of our favorite TWiST 500 startups...
It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s REGENT’s Seafarer | E2205
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*The key to avoiding long airport delays? Low-alt...
Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204
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*On TWiST, Jason welcomes an all-star VC panel —...
Sending datacenters into orbit | E2203
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*Starcloud has starte...
What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202
What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | EXXX
*Polymarket’s sharps are already placing bets on when ChatGPT maker OpenAI will go public...
Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201
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*Why rebrand an app with 40 million daily active users?
On TWiST, Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra swings by to explain why he...
iPhone Air is “inspiring,” and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200
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Jason’s been skeptical on Apple lately, but he’s BLOWN AWAY by his new iPhone Air.Hear why JCal thinks Cupertino’s l...
Jason Unpacks Sequoia’s New Funds"| E2199
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Australia has accused Microsoft of employing a dark pattern… Hear why Jason says these kinds of sneaky tactics aren’t usually wort...
If you’re not working 9-9-6, are you working hard enough? | E2198
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*Working from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week, might seem like TOO INTENSE a commitment for some, but Jason argues that elite performa...