This Week in Startups Transcripts

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

$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 Startup Turning Space Into a Logistics Network

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 is Gen Z hates 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)

Cerebras's IPO goes vertical, and the death of OpenClaw? | E2287

5,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286

The end of Venture Capital? (VC Roundtable) | E2285

Naval's GP, Ankur Nagpal, Breaks Down The Viral “USVC” Fund | E2284

Can an AI Agent Legally Own a Company? Christian van der Henst's Wild Experiment| E2283

Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics

The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282

To the left of this of thumbnail i want to add a chinese flag to the left destroying the meta logo. because the title is China Kills Meta / Manus Deal (Story Of The Year) | E2281

Naval’s $500 VC fund, the Maduro Polymarket scandal, and NYT defends theft and murder | E2280

The Defense Tech Startup YC Kicked Out of a Meeting is Now Arming America | E2280

SpaceX and Cursor team up to topple Claude Code | E2279

Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278

3D-Printed Homes for $99K: ICON’s Jason Ballard on the future of housing | E2277

This 22-Year-Old Built TikTok for Mobile Games, and It’s Growing Fast | E2276

Bittensor’s (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275

Bittensor Drama! TAO down 15%! | E2274

Anthropic’s Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can’t have it | E2273

3 AI Agents That Actually Replaced Human Jobs | E2272

AI Rebuilt Every YC W26 Startup. Should Founders Be Scared? | E2271

How 3 CEOs Use AI to Run $10B in Companies | This Week in AI

Venture Roundtable: SpaceX IPO, AI's PR Crisis, and the Defense Tech Bubble | E2270

The 5-Step Framework for AI Agents That Improve While You Sleep | E2269

The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268

Compliance Startup Scandal... Is Delve Guilty? | E2266

The Drone Company Everyone Thought Was Illegal (Now Worth $4B+) | E2265

How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev

Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans?

One Genius Rule That Made This Coffee Brand Famous | EP 2262

The Global Expansion of Self-Driving Vehicles

How agents will change banking forever | E2260

Wisdom of the $TAO: the future is decentralized AI

Is Anthropic Making the Biggest Mistake in AI History | E2258

How the OpenClaw foundation bullet-proofed its future (w/Dave Morin) | E2257

The Biggest Private Funding Round in History | E2256

Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252

Kill Your Startup’s Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254

We Asked 3 Experts How to Get More Value out of OpenClaw | E2253

When Will Openclaw go Mainstream? | E2252

Will OpenAI Tank OpenClaw? | E2251

OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250

Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249

How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247

We built OpenClaw Ultron to replace 20 people at our company | E2246

Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245

Where early-stage founders MUST focus to success | E2244

SpaceX + xAI deal gets us one step closer to Musk Industries | E2243

AI Bots Take Over | E2242

How decriminalization led to an explosion in cannabis startups (Feat. Ford Smith, Andrew Duffy, and Socrates Rosenfeld) | E2241

Clawdbot is an inflection point in AI history | E2240

Why You’ll Choose an AI Doctor (feat. Fred Almeida and Max Weiss) | E2239

From Blood Transfusions to Burritos, How Zipline is Automating Delivery | E2238

How startups suddenly became “cool” in Japan (feat. Shin Takamiya of Globis Capital) | E2237

Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236

Japan’s Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235

How to Make Billions from Exposing Fraud | E2234

Jason’s Top CES Products and Takeaways | E2232

AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231

2026 Starts with a bang: META AI Drama and Nvidia’s $20B Groq Acquisition | E2230

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

Jason’s ultimate dream mega-purchase + Founder Q’s | E2228

Is this the end for the Roomba? Why iRobot went bankrupt | E2224

What’s REALLY going on with those “ads” in ChatGPT | E2220

Netflix buys WB + why Jason should run Disney | E2219

Getting past the “Cardinal Sins of Delegating” with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218

Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217

Is $MSTR over? Jason takes his victory lap. | E2216

SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215

Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214

Jason predicts a “major M&A moment” in the next six months! | E2213

Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212

AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211

Archer buys an airport, Ramp’s huge raise, RIP KitKat, Bezos returns to the C-Suite, and more | E2210

Stop ghosting your friends with Nox’s RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209

Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208

Inside Harvey AI’s $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207

IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206

It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s REGENT’s Seafarer | E2205

Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204

Sending datacenters into orbit | E2203

What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202

Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201

iPhone Air is “inspiring,” and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200

Jason Unpacks Sequoia’s New Funds | E2199

If you’re not working 9-9-6, are you working hard enough? | E2198

Amazon’s “Age of Efficiency,” LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197

Magic School uses AI to help kids learn, not cheat | E2196

Just how frothy is the AI Bubble anyway? | E2195

Deel’s growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great “momentum is moat” debate | E2194

Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193

What Ramp’s data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192

Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191

Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190

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OpenAI’s latest “bizarre” mega-deal, datacenters in space, previewing Tesla’s big announcement and more | E2189

Sora app review, Perplexity’s Comet is FREE, and which AI tools reign supreme? | E2188

Sora 2, Tilly Norwood, and the New Slop Era | E2187

Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186

Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185

Is there an AI coding bubble? Plus Meta’s new SlopTok product, Neon’s divisive app shuts down, and more | E2184

The rise of “workslop,” Alibaba’s insane new deepfake model, Tether’s MASSIVE valuation, and more | E2183

Jason’s H-1B pitch, the latest on the TikTok deal, and Howie’s first ad | E2182

Meta’s “creepy” new Ray Bans, Beehiiv teams with Discord, AND a visit from Lovable CEO Anton Osika! | E2181

Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics

Tesla and Uber team up! Plus Weave Robotics’ Isaac and $OPEN bull Eric Jackson | E2180

Why Medium is HIDING from AI | E2179

Robinhood Venture Fund, Polymarket adds earnings, and LAUNCH Accelerator 35 is here! | E2178

All-In Summit Highlights, Schools Could Block Social Media, FTC Chatbot Investigation, and Zoox hits Vegas | E2177

AI Copyright & Training Data w/ Chris Paniewski | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics