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This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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.

This Week in Startups

Did the Midterms Destroy All Hope for Data Centers? | E2360

Why a Do-Nothing Congress could be great for markets | E2359

Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron is 90% sure we live in a simulation | E2358

Binance Hacked $6.3B Stolen, DoorDash Buys Instacart For $17B, Jake Newfield from Hermetiq, + More!

Is AI the new cigarettes? Our VC panel digs into Anthropic’s S-1 | E2356

Pregame Your Launch Before Your App Exists (w/ Amanda Bradford) | E2355

OpenAI’s $1.25T Raise, Starlink Mobile & Zuck’s Tax Deal | EP 2354

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

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

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

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

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

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

What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347

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

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

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

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

The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336

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

Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327

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

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

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

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

How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322

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

How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320

Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319

Banning Chinese robots isn't regulatory capture | E2318

While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317

Why quantum has been "10 years away" for 30 years | E2316

Why this longevity startup raised in Japan, not Silicon Valley | TWiST Tokyo | E2315

The AI Securing Your Workforce Before a Mistake Ever Becomes a Breach | E2314

The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313

A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312

Jason turned $11 and one tweet into 1.1M views | E2311

Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310

Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market

$100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308

Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307

Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure

Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305

Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table

The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303

Why SpaceX Buying Cursor Changes Everything

The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon…

SpaceX IPO Day: What Wall St. and the media missed | E2300

Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299

The AI Tutor That Makes Kids Actually Think | E2298

Anthropic wants to slow AI down and Bernie wants 50%: JCal Reacts | E2297

The project SpaceX's first employee raised $500M for

This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295

How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026: Ask Jason | E2294

The Drone Company Quietly Taking Over Delivery

From hypercars to cruise missiles: Lukas Czinger on the future of US defense | E2292

Avi Patel on the startup that copied Kled and why he called out General Catalyst by name | E2291

Why does Gen Z hate AI?

The Self-Driving Startup Nobody Saw Coming | E2289

How Many Startups Will Survive OpenAI? | E2288

How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)