This Week in Startups
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AI Rebuilt Every YC W26 Startup. Should Founders Be Scared? | E2271
80 hours 52 mins; April 03, 2026
How 3 CEOs Use AI to Run $10B in Companies | This Week in AI
30 mins; April 02, 2026
Venture Roundtable: SpaceX IPO, AI's PR Crisis, and the Defense Tech Bubble | E2270
88 hours 7 mins; April 01, 2026
The 5-Step Framework for AI Agents That Improve While You Sleep | E2269
87 hours 14 mins; March 30, 2026
The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268
99 hours 16 mins; March 27, 2026
This Bittensor Subnet Could Cut Drug Discovery Costs in HALF | E2267
72 hours 53 mins; March 25, 2026
$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6
75 hours 24 mins; March 25, 2026
Compliance Startup Scandal... Is Delve Guilty? | E2266
86 hours 44 mins; March 24, 2026
The Drone Company Everyone Thought Was Illegal (Now Worth $4B+) | E2265
98 hours 38 mins; March 20, 2026
How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev
49 mins; March 18, 2026
Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans?
73 hours 45 mins; March 16, 2026
One Genius Rule That Made This Coffee Brand Famous | EP 2262
90 hours 27 mins; March 13, 2026
The Global Expansion of Self-Driving Vehicles
69 hours 18 mins; March 11, 2026
How agents will change banking forever | E2260
60 hours 38 mins; March 09, 2026
How agents will change banking forever | E2260
60 hours 57 mins; March 09, 2026
Wisdom of the $TAO: the future is decentralized AI
68 hours 26 mins; March 06, 2026
Is Anthropic Making the Biggest Mistake in AI History | E2258
80 hours 55 mins; March 04, 2026
How the OpenClaw foundation bullet-proofed its future (w/Dave Morin) | E2257
74 hours 43 mins; March 02, 2026
The Biggest Private Funding Round in History | E2256
80 hours 17 mins; February 27, 2026
Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252
82 hours 11 mins; February 25, 2026
Kill Your Startup’s Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254
78 hours 57 mins; February 23, 2026
We Asked 3 Experts How to Get More Value out of OpenClaw | E2253
68 hours 36 mins; February 20, 2026
When Will Openclaw go Mainstream? | E2252
62 hours 26 mins; February 18, 2026
Will OpenAI Tank OpenClaw? | E2251
86 hours 33 mins; February 16, 2026
OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250
66 hours 28 mins; February 13, 2026
Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249
40 mins; February 12, 2026
How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248
45 mins; February 11, 2026
Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247
67 hours 58 mins; February 09, 2026
We built OpenClaw Ultron to replace 20 people at our company | E2246
70 hours 51 mins; February 06, 2026
Savvy is HQ Trivia + Wordle (feat. Scott Rogowsky) | E2245
53 mins; February 04, 2026
Where early-stage founders MUST focus to success | E2244
67 hours 8 mins; February 03, 2026
SpaceX + xAI deal gets us one step closer to Musk Industries | E2243
62 hours 11 mins; February 02, 2026
AI Bots Take Over | E2242
88 hours 26 mins; January 30, 2026
How decriminalization led to an explosion in cannabis startups (Feat. Ford Smith, Andrew Duffy, and Socrates Rosenfeld) | E2241
55 mins; January 28, 2026
Clawdbot is an inflection point in AI history | E2240
62 hours 14 mins; January 26, 2026
Why You’ll Choose an AI Doctor (feat. Fred Almeida and Max Weiss) | E2239
63 hours 23 mins; January 23, 2026
From Blood Transfusions to Burritos, How Zipline is Automating Delivery | E2238
63 hours 33 mins; January 21, 2026
How startups suddenly became “cool” in Japan (feat. Shin Takamiya of Globis Capital) | E2237
57 mins; January 20, 2026
Avoiding buzzwords and marketing-speak (feat. Thomas McInerney) | E2236
63 hours 25 mins; January 16, 2026
Japan’s Startup Revolution (feat. Kathy Matsui) | E2235
67 hours 43 mins; January 14, 2026
How to Make Billions from Exposing Fraud | E2234
65 hours 16 mins; January 13, 2026
Secrets of Startup Recruiting in the US AND Japan! (feat. Sho Takei) | E2233
52 mins; January 12, 2026
Jason’s Top CES Products and Takeaways | E2232
69 hours 8 mins; January 09, 2026
AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231
66 hours 29 mins; January 07, 2026
2026 Starts with a bang: META AI Drama and Nvidia’s $20B Groq Acquisition | E2230
54 mins; January 05, 2026
THE 2025 TWISTY AWARDS! Biggest Trends, Best Guests, Top Name Drops, and more | E2229
55 mins; December 30, 2025
Jason’s ultimate dream mega-purchase + Founder Q’s | E2228
45 mins; December 29, 2025
Waymo Madness in SF! Why robotaxis clogged the streets | E2227
59 mins; December 22, 2025
Level up your copywriting w/ Sam Parr | E2226
66 hours 13 mins; December 19, 2025
INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225
86 hours 45 mins; December 18, 2025
Is this the end for the Roomba? Why iRobot went bankrupt | E2224
60 hours 42 mins; December 15, 2025
Disney and OpenAI sign landmark deal… and we saw it coming! | E2223
57 mins; December 12, 2025
“The best founders find a way to make it happen”: VC Roundtable with Bryan Kim and David Clark | E2222
70 hours 25 mins; December 10, 2025
FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221
77 hours 19 mins; December 09, 2025
What’s REALLY going on with those “ads” in ChatGPT | E2220
62 hours 24 mins; December 08, 2025
Netflix buys WB + why Jason should run Disney | E2219
62 hours 29 mins; December 05, 2025
Getting past the “Cardinal Sins of Delegating” with Jonathan Swanson of Athena | E2218
57 mins; December 03, 2025
Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217
85 hours 53 mins; December 02, 2025
Is $MSTR over? Jason takes his victory lap. | E2216
57 mins; December 01, 2025
SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215
75 hours 55 mins; November 26, 2025
Even great startups sometimes need to pivot (feat. Francisco Cornejo of Theo) | E2214
51 mins; November 24, 2025
Jason predicts a “major M&A moment” in the next six months! | E2213
55 mins; November 21, 2025
Why data is the biggest AI bottleneck (feat. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI) | E2212
65 hours 13 mins; November 19, 2025
AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211
46 mins; November 18, 2025
Archer buys an airport, Ramp’s huge raise, RIP KitKat, Bezos returns to the C-Suite, and more | E2210
74 hours 15 mins; November 17, 2025
Stop ghosting your friends with Nox’s RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209
73 hours 31 mins; November 14, 2025
Why We Need Ferries and Tugboats in Space w/ Orbital Operations | E2208
73 hours 56 mins; November 12, 2025
Inside Harvey AI’s $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207
63 hours 4 mins; November 11, 2025
IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206
65 hours 14 mins; November 10, 2025
It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s REGENT’s Seafarer | E2205
75 hours 13 mins; November 07, 2025
Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204
83 hours 50 mins; November 05, 2025
Sending datacenters into orbit | E2203
77 hours 54 mins; November 03, 2025
What will be OpenAI’s IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202
78 hours 34 mins; October 31, 2025
Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201
98 hours 52 mins; October 29, 2025
iPhone Air is “inspiring,” and a first step toward Apple Glasses (w/ Zach Handshoe of SpatialGen) | E2200
78 hours 59 mins; October 28, 2025
Jason Unpacks Sequoia’s New Funds"| E2199
81 hours 45 mins; October 27, 2025
If you’re not working 9-9-6, are you working hard enough? | E2198
61 hours 16 mins; October 24, 2025
Amazon’s “Age of Efficiency,” LLM distribution, AI wearable worries, and more with Elad Gil | E2197
83 hours 34 mins; October 22, 2025
Magic School uses AI to help kids learn, not cheat | E2196
57 mins; October 21, 2025
Just how frothy is the AI Bubble anyway? | E2195
59 mins; October 20, 2025
Deel’s growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great “momentum is moat” debate | E2194
78 hours 28 mins; October 17, 2025
Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193
89 hours 32 mins; October 15, 2025
What Ramp’s data tells us about AI, unemployment and more with CEO Eric Glyman | E2192
76 hours 6 mins; October 13, 2025
Figure’s 03 Chore-bot, Jake Paul Sora takeover, ChatGPT app integrations, and more | E2191
68 hours 40 mins; October 10, 2025
Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190
71 hours 14 mins; October 08, 2025
We’re Hiring! Join the This Week in Startups Team
1 min; October 08, 2025
OpenAI’s latest “bizarre” mega-deal, datacenters in space, previewing Tesla’s big announcement and more | E2189
76 hours 26 mins; October 06, 2025
Sora app review, Perplexity’s Comet is FREE, and which AI tools reign supreme? | E2188
63 hours 7 mins; October 03, 2025
Sora 2, Tilly Norwood, and the New Slop Era | E2187
55 mins; October 01, 2025
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186
65 hours 2 mins; September 30, 2025
Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185
60 hours 17 mins; September 29, 2025
Is there an AI coding bubble? Plus Meta’s new SlopTok product, Neon’s divisive app shuts down, and more | E2184
87 hours 26 mins; September 26, 2025
The rise of “workslop,” Alibaba’s insane new deepfake model, Tether’s MASSIVE valuation, and more | E2183
81 hours 51 mins; September 24, 2025
Jason’s H-1B pitch, the latest on the TikTok deal, and Howie’s first ad | E2182
74 hours 44 mins; September 22, 2025
Meta’s “creepy” new Ray Bans, Beehiiv teams with Discord, AND a visit from Lovable CEO Anton Osika! | E2181
74 hours 56 mins; September 19, 2025
Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics
18 mins; September 18, 2025
Tesla and Uber team up! Plus Weave Robotics’ Isaac and $OPEN bull Eric Jackson | E2180
72 hours 25 mins; September 17, 2025
Why Medium is HIDING from AI | E2179
69 hours 58 mins; September 16, 2025
Robinhood Venture Fund, Polymarket adds earnings, and LAUNCH Accelerator 35 is here! | E2178
60 hours 22 mins; September 15, 2025
All-In Summit Highlights, Schools Could Block Social Media, FTC Chatbot Investigation, and Zoox hits Vegas | E2177
88 hours 39 mins; September 12, 2025