This Week in Startups
Travis’ Uber Comeback, AGI’s Stakes, Meta’s $100M AI Hires & Prediction Market Gold Rush | E2144
Today’s show: EVs are igniting a global tariff war, and Xiaomi’s shockingly cheap, high-quality electric cars threaten to obliterate Western automake...
Multi-Agent AI, Open Protocols & Startup Acceleration with Saurabh Tiwary | AI Basics
In this episode, Jason dives deep into the future of multi-agent systems with Saurabh Tiwary, VP & GM of Cloud AI at Google. They explore how teams of...
VC Roundtable: Recruiting Secrets, Second-Time Founders & Product-Market Fit Myths | E2143
* Today’s show: In this powerhouse VC roundtable, @Jason sits down with Sequoia’s Doug Leone and Cyberstarts’ Gili Raanan to share brutally honest ...
AI Producers, Tesla Robotaxis & the Rise of the “Tiny Teams” Era | E2142
* Today’s show: Tesla’s robotaxi launch, AI producers, job destruction, and smart toilets? In this episode of This Week in Startups, @Jason and @al...
The Strip Mining Era of LLMs—And Why It’s About to End | E2141
Today’s show: AI has been feasting on the open web—but is the free lunch over? In this explosive episode, @Jason and @alex call out OpenAI and others...
From Drones to Dystopia: The Future of Jobs, Fires & Meta’s AI Land Grab | E2140
Today’s show: * In this episode, @Jason and @alex explore how AI is reshaping the economy—from Pano AI’s $44M raise to fight wildfires with drones...
Meta, Scale, and the Future of AI Labeling: Did Zuck Just Kill a Category? | E2139
Today’s show: Meta just took a 49% stake in Scale AI, and the shockwaves are hitting the entire AI ecosystem. In this episode, @Jason and @alex unpac...
Stripe’s Crypto Wallet, M&A Momentum, and Robots Replacing Soul-Crushing Jobs | E2138
Today’s show: In this episode of This Week in Startups, @Jason and @Alex break down Stripe’s big bet on crypto wallets with its latest acquisition of...
TWIST VC Roundtable: Startup Valuations, Secondary Markets & the YC Revenue Illusion | E2137
Today’s show: Alex moderates a TWIST VC Roundtable with Jason, Paige Doherty (Behind Genius), and Altimeter’s Megan Reynolds about the state of early-...
YC Valuations, VC Slowdown, and Office Hours with CustomerIQ | E2136
Today’s show: Jason and Alex dive into why Y Combinator startups are raising at sky-high valuations with relatively low ARR—what does that mean for in...