THE 2025 TWISTY AWARDS! Biggest Trends, Best Guests, Top Name Drops, and more | E2229

It's the twisties. For me and my friends, Ben Stiller, Timothy Chalamet, and, my brother Josh, I am talking in my Brooklyn high speed, but I got to go to f one. We're gonna have job destruction. Everybody agrees on that. The the only thing people don't agree on is the timeline. And if we can create new jobs in that time period I believe Optimus is gonna be the greatest product ever created by humanity, including the wheel in this, obviously. It is going to be the most successful product in history, and people won't forget that Tesla ever made cars. A bold prediction. I said, so you're married. I said, I tell you what. Go talk to your wife, tell what you did, and ask her what she thinks is the best thing for you to do. I I get an apology letter from him with his wife, cc. That is at once the most interesting and useless piece of information that has ever been given out on this show. That's that to me is the best moment. Yeah. I shouldn't say this. This was one of my favorite episodes of the whole year just to get personal. Okay. I have to go with because of the twisty title. This Week in Startups is brought to you by HubSpot. Check out the guide, how to get your first a 100 customers. Download it for free at clickhubspot.com/twistone. Squarespace, turn your idea into a beautiful website. Go to squarespace.com/twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. LinkedIn ads. Start converting your b to b audience into high quality leads today. Launch your first campaign and get $250 free when you spend at least $250. Go to linkedin.com/ this week in startups to claim your credit. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to our year end episode. It's the twisties. Whoo. Twisties 2025. These are the best of awards. Lon is here. Lon Harris, our editorial director, and, of course, my cohost, Alex Wilhelm. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Let's get started. Yeah. These are gonna air a little after Christmas, but I'm still wearing my most festive Christmas sweater, I figured. Last episode of the year, why not? So our first category, the best Jason name drops of 2025. There were a lot of these. I had to winnow it down to just the top three. That's hilarious. By the way, I don't know the categories or the nominees. I'm coming in completely cold, so this is a new category. But, okay, here we go. Best name drop. I can imagine Timothee Chalamet, Elon Musk, Trump. I mean, there's so many possible. You've left a few names off, but you got you guessed you correctly guessed a few of them. Okay. So I see this first clip. The first clip, this is, Jason discussing his experiences hanging out at the XAI offices. Let's …