This Week in Startups

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Stripe: https://stripe.com/startupsRippling: https://rippling.ai/twistNorthwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomainPlaud: https://plaud.ai/twistToday’s show:Binance lost an estimated $6.3 billion in the biggest crypto hack ever, and Jason proposes a radical solution. The entire tech industry should stop shipping new...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:PayPal: https://paypal.com/businessThe Conservation Fund: https://www.conservationfund.org/Hostinger: https://hostinger.com/twistPlaud: https://plaud.ai/twistToday’s show:Anthropic’s S-1 is here, and finally, we can start to develop a real understanding for the AI economy and whether the numbers add up. Anthropic shows an operating profit, a mostly...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Odoo: https://odoo.com/twistG2i: https://g2i.co/twistRippling: https://rippling.ai/twistPlaud: https://plaud.ai/twistToday’s show:Amanda Bradford’s “launch party” for her dating app The League actually extended for months.She “pre-gamed” the app’s formal launch with months of mixers, boat parties, and free events, where the only ticket required for...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Plaud - https://plaud.ai/twistSentry - https://sentry.io/twistLightfield - https://lightfield.appRippling - https://rippling.ai/twistToday’s show:Is OpenAI finally priced correctly? Jason argues that the reported $30 billion raise at a $1.25 trillion valuation is finally “right-sized.” He also says that he’d put money in at that price, while walking...

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This Week In Startups is made possible by:Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twistNorthwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomainVanta: https://www.vanta.com/twistRippling: https://rippling.ai/twistToday’s show:Jason can’t stop praising Nathan Fielder’s new A24 hybrid documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, “You Can See Everything,” and he’s insisting that Lon check...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Lightfield: https://lightfield.appEvery.io: https://every.io/PayPal: https://paypal.com/businessPlaud: https://plaud.ai/twistGoDaddy: https://www.godaddy.com/Today’s show:Today’s college grads are showing up to work at Jason’s company unable to write three sentences. He’s asking what Shishir Mehrotra of Superhuman, the company behind Grammarly, can do to...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Paper: https://getpaper.ai/twistSuperhuman: https://superhuman.com/Odoo: https://Odoo.com/twistToday’s show:Misha Laskin of Reflection AI joins Jason to explain why big companies are done renting their AI from closed labs. Enterprises want to keep their data, cut their costs, and tune their models to their unique businesses.Reflection is launching its...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twistNorthwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomainNetSuite: https://netsuite.ai/twistThe Conservation Fund: https://conservationfund.orgToday’s show:At packed concerts, festivals, and stadiums, your phone gets WORSE with every person who shows up. Totem gets better.Carter Fowler of Totem joins...

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Lightfield: https://lightfield.appRippling: https://Rippling.ai/twistUpwork: https://upwork.comToday’s show:AssetHub built an AI agent that recreates licensed characters in 3D while respecting copyright rules... But Jason says he needs to think BIGGER. 11 founders pitched their companies to Jason and Yuki Shirato of Techstars Tokyo at our Osaka event this...