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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.

90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics
Sep 2026
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Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337
Sep 2026
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The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336
Sep 2026
0:00 / 72:38
Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play
Sep 2026
0:00 / 22:35
Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
and then there was this crazy a conference in puerto rico by the future of life institute conference you can pull up the picture of um everybody ▶ tap to play from here
Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334
Sep 2026
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Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
Sep 2026
0:00 / 17:54
VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333
Sep 2026
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Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Die with Zero: Getting All You Can Out of Your Money and Your Life
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can Out of Your Money and Your Life
Bill Perkins
you're going to die die with nothing as that great book um die with zero great book ▶ tap to play from here
Breaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Common Sense
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
or thomas paine with common sense it was like this conversation is happening ▶ tap to play from here
Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Player Piano
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
kurt vonnegut wrote about this stuff player piano is like the first book ▶ tap to play from here
You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
Aug 2026
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China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329
Aug 2026
0:00 / 80:22
Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328
Aug 2026
0:00 / 69:14
Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics
Aug 2026
0:00 / 21:05
Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327
Aug 2026
0:00 / 54:19
Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326
Aug 2026
0:00 / 84:54
What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325
Aug 2026 · 2 books
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Cover of The Shards
The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis
he serialized the book and then his agent was like hey dumbass i'm your book agent your brett f and istan alice you're an author what are you doing giving this away for free ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Rules of Attraction
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
there was that movie rules of attraction too that was a brad easton ellis book ▶ tap to play from here
These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns
Aug 2026
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Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323
Aug 2026
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