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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- 1 Common SenseThomas Paine · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Die with Zero: Getting All You Can Out of Your Money and Your LifeBill Perkins · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Player PianoKurt Vonnegut · 1× across 1 episode
We asked 3 VCs: would you invest in Elizabeth Holmes’ next startup? | E2353
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Anthropic Gives Away 5% of Its Shares, Clone’s Muscle Robot, ElevenLabs Steals Podcaster's Voice
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Flying Cars, OpenAI Spies, Why AI Isn’t Sticking (Superhuman CEO)
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The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI
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The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
there's a book written about this it's called the innovator's crisis oh wait no it's innovators dilemma ▶ tap to play from here
Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato
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What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347
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Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346
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What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers
Amy Sutherland
then read the oral history of caa ▶ tap to play from here
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Bob Iger
then read bob iger's uh biography right he did disney ▶ tap to play from here
Something Like an Autobiography
Akira Kurosawa
then you could go even further back and read akira kurosawa something like an autobiography ▶ tap to play from here
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
shoe dog by phil knight you can look for other people who wrote about nike and you know uh japan during that time ▶ tap to play from here
Born Standing Up
Steve Martin
so go read uh born standing up by um steve martin ▶ tap to play from here
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Peter Biskind
did you ever read that peter biskin book easy riders raging bulls you gotta read that ▶ tap to play from here
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
it's funny you say that in the middle of einstein by walter isaacson ▶ tap to play from here
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
stephen king has a great one on writing stephen king's on writing really interesting ▶ tap to play from here
The Shining
Stephen King
i think it's the shining is one of the ones where he says he doesn't remember writing it ▶ tap to play from here
Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345
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Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344
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Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
pygmalion was a book or a play and then it became a movie pygmalion i don't know the order george bernard shaw the the famous play ▶ tap to play from here
The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy
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A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342
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VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341
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Elon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340
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Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier
i introduced him to abigail schreier the author of um because we had a little crossover with them i i introduced him to abigail uh schreier of bad therapy fame a great great book by the way ▶ tap to play from here
Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
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Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier
i introduced him to abigail schreier the author of um because we had a little crossover with them i i introduced him to abigail uh schreier of bad therapy fame a great great book by the way ▶ tap to play from here
90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics
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Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337
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The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336
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Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
it's based on a scifi novel by this guy blake crouch who's also making the show and i mean if you are a hard scifi fan it is it is great and it really plays around with that multiverse premise ▶ tap to play from here
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