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AI Copyright & Training Data w/ Chris Paniewski | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
18 mins; September 11, 2025
Republic opens private markets as Positron takes on GPUs: A TWiST500 doubleheader! | E2176
57 mins; September 10, 2025
How Founders Are Building the Next Great Startups | Paid.ai, iTruckr & Tenax AI | E2175
77 hours 15 mins; September 08, 2025
The Browser Wars heat up! PLUS, Khan on The Bulwark, rules for great domain names, and Polymarket returns | E2174
78 hours 35 mins; September 05, 2025
Creative Structures w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
23 mins; September 04, 2025
Uber, Lucid & Nuro team up on robotaxis by 2026 | E2173
74 hours 44 mins; September 03, 2025
Jason’s Tesla Optimus prediction, Anthropic’s latest mega-raise and more | E2172
71 hours 5 mins; September 02, 2025
KPop Demon Hunters breaks records, Grok speeds up, and an AI-powered browser deep dive | E2171
60 hours 50 mins; August 29, 2025
Market Update and Trends w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
26 mins; August 28, 2025
Google is Nano Banana, Apple AI plans & The Great H1B Visa Debate | E2170
89 hours 40 mins; August 27, 2025
xAI’s App Store lawsuit, Intel shares vs. grocery stores, and Netskope’s IPO | E2169
74 hours 28 mins; August 25, 2025
Do Kwon Guilty, Powell Pivot & OpenAI’s $12B Run Rate | E2168
76 hours 52 mins; August 22, 2025
Is Chalk.ai the ‘Next Databricks’? + Tollbit’s Bot Paywall for AI Agents | E2167
59 mins; August 20, 2025
Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom’s Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud
31 mins; August 19, 2025
Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166
38 mins; August 18, 2025
Meta’s “Sensual” AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor’s dreams became memes +  OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165
57 mins; August 15, 2025
The End of the ZIRP Era, and why recruiting is SO PAINFUL | E2164
81 hours 27 mins; August 13, 2025
GPT Psychosis is spreading, the NYT is Super-Doxxing Zuck, and Trump is wetting his beak on Chinese chip exports | E2163
76 hours 27 mins; August 11, 2025
GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162
78 hours 40 mins; August 08, 2025
Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161
73 hours 6 mins; August 06, 2025
Lina Khan’s Figma victory lap, Meta’s Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160
69 hours 0 mins; August 04, 2025
TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159
83 hours 29 mins; August 01, 2025
All Star Investor Panel! Sophia Amoruso and Ryan Hoover | E2158
73 hours 43 mins; July 30, 2025
Figma IPO, IMAX AI Festival, the Tea app spill, that one Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and more! | E2157
73 hours 36 mins; July 28, 2025
Behind the scenes at the ALL-IN AI SUMMIT w/ POTUS, JD Vance, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and more… | E2156
63 hours 53 mins; July 25, 2025
AUTOMATING HEALTH CARE, THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING, AND PRODUCT VELOCITY | E2155
80 hours 46 mins; July 23, 2025
Manufacturing in the US, Building in Open Source… and more | E2154
82 hours 47 mins; July 21, 2025
Inside Substack’s $100M Push to Fend Off Beehiiv | E2153
73 hours 26 mins; July 18, 2025
Thinking Machines’ RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152
68 hours 27 mins; July 16, 2025
Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151
60 hours 46 mins; July 14, 2025
Grok 4 Beats OpenAI + The $300 AI Agent Era | E2150
71 hours 4 mins; July 11, 2025
Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs’ Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud
22 mins; July 10, 2025
Starlink + Tesla? $4T Nvidia? Perplexity Browser? Linda Yaccarino Steps Down? | E2149
66 hours 14 mins; July 09, 2025
Cloud Seeding, Conspiracies & the Texas Floods | BONUS EPISODE!
26 mins; July 09, 2025
Exits Are Back, QSB Stock & The New America Party? | E2148
67 hours 9 mins; July 07, 2025
Startup Valuations, Biotech’s Crunch & AI’s Massive TAM | E2147
76 hours 33 mins; July 02, 2025
The Grammarly–Superhuman Megadeal, plus TWiST 500 chats with LabelBox and Apptronik’s founders | E2146
87 hours 24 mins; July 01, 2025
Rebuilding Civilization from First Principles: Inside Balaji’s Network State Vision | E2145
64 hours 8 mins; June 30, 2025
Travis’ Uber Comeback, AGI’s Stakes, Meta’s $100M AI Hires & Prediction Market Gold Rush | E2144
67 hours 45 mins; June 27, 2025
Multi-Agent AI, Open Protocols & Startup Acceleration with Saurabh Tiwary | AI Basics
19 mins; June 26, 2025
VC Roundtable: Recruiting Secrets, Second-Time Founders & Product-Market Fit Myths | E2143
68 hours 51 mins; June 25, 2025
AI Producers, Tesla Robotaxis & the Rise of the “Tiny Teams” Era | E2142
71 hours 25 mins; June 23, 2025
The Strip Mining Era of LLMs—And Why It’s About to End | E2141
75 hours 25 mins; June 21, 2025
From Drones to Dystopia: The Future of Jobs, Fires & Meta’s AI Land Grab | E2140
71 hours 41 mins; June 18, 2025
Meta, Scale, and the Future of AI Labeling: Did Zuck Just Kill a Category? | E2139
69 hours 25 mins; June 16, 2025
Stripe’s Crypto Wallet, M&A Momentum, and Robots Replacing Soul-Crushing Jobs | E2138
63 hours 53 mins; June 13, 2025
TWIST VC Roundtable: Startup Valuations, Secondary Markets & the YC Revenue Illusion | E2137
71 hours 22 mins; June 11, 2025
YC Valuations, VC Slowdown, and Office Hours with CustomerIQ | E2136
63 hours 55 mins; June 09, 2025
Circle’s IPO Soars, The Future of VC and Cursor’s Crazy Growth | E2135
46 mins; June 06, 2025
Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf, Deel Rewrites the Narrative and Flock Safety’s Surveillance Tech | E2134
69 hours 55 mins; June 04, 2025
Grammarly’s $1B Round, Brain Computers, and NYT Licenses To Amazon | E2133
64 hours 10 mins; June 02, 2025
How AthenaHQ and Browser Use Are Building the Next Layer of the Internet | E2132
59 mins; May 30, 2025
Google’s AI Design Tool, Salesforce’s $8B Comeback Deal, and M&A Momentum Builds | E2131
58 mins; May 28, 2025
Apple’s Tariff Trouble, Anthropic’s New Models, and Our Founder Friday Finale | E2130
64 hours 52 mins; May 23, 2025
David Friedberg on AI-First Startups & the Future of Biology, Business & Creativity | AI Basics with Google Cloud
41 mins; May 22, 2025
Jony Ive Joins OpenAI, Waymo Hits 10M Rides, and How to Launch a Marketplace from Scratch | E2129
65 hours 17 mins; May 21, 2025
Drones, Design, and Digital Espionage | E2128
63 hours 35 mins; May 19, 2025
Microsoft Layoffs, Immigration Blunders, & Office Hours with Jeremy Redman of Airfive | E2127
64 hours 13 mins; May 16, 2025
Chime’s IPO, Databricks’ $1B Acquisition & Dave Rubin’s Media Empire | E2126
66 hours 37 mins; May 14, 2025
Agentic AI Meets Cybersecurity + Solar Robots in the Desert | E2125
51 mins; May 13, 2025
Anti-Work Uprising, Copyright Wars & the StreamFog Solution | E2124
90 hours 58 mins; May 12, 2025
OpenAI Scoops Instacart’s CEO, AI in the Courtroom & Off-Road Startups | E2123
73 hours 29 mins; May 09, 2025
Zoox Crash Fallout, COATUE’s $1B Open Fund, and Office Hours with FusionAds | E2122
66 hours 36 mins; May 07, 2025
Cursor’s $9B Round, AI-Powered Toys & CloudNuro’s SaaS Fix | E2121
85 hours 51 mins; May 05, 2025
Apple’s App Store Loss, AI Persuasion, and an Interview with Tyler Denk of Beehiiv | E2120
74 hours 46 mins; May 02, 2025
What's Next for AI Infrastructure with Amin Vahdat | AI Basics with Google Cloud
27 mins; May 01, 2025
Bittensor’s Rise, Meta’s Llama Goes Cloud, & AI Now Writes Your Code | E2119
64 hours 49 mins; April 30, 2025
Meta’s Dangerous Chat, Protect AI & Founder Fridays Pitch Comp | E2118
86 hours 49 mins; April 28, 2025
Discord’s Power Move, Slate’s Modular EVs & the “Act for Private Gain” | E2117
85 hours 51 mins; April 25, 2025
Cursor’s $300M ARR, Uber’s FTC Battle, and Office Hours with GoShare | E2116
62 hours 26 mins; April 23, 2025
Robot Lifeguards, TapCheck’s Payday Play & Thalamus’s Wild Market Share | E2115
76 hours 58 mins; April 21, 2025
LMArena Goes Startup, AI App Wars Begin, Scott Bair’s Design Playbook | E2114
61 hours 22 mins; April 18, 2025
AI Progress and Impact on Ecosystem Players with CapitalG’s Jill Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud
25 mins; April 17, 2025
Cuts CEO Talks Tariffs, Figma's IPO Buzz, and a Nerd Crawler Update | E2113
66 hours 53 mins; April 16, 2025
Vertical AI Innovations: Abacus LLM in Finance & Synthesia's Video Avatars | E2112
67 hours 35 mins; April 15, 2025
HuggingFace Buys Pollen Robotics, DHH & Bezos Founder Advice & a JCal Origin Story | E2111
63 hours 11 mins; April 14, 2025
Palantir's Fellowship, Coco Robots & Startup Office Hours | E2110
68 hours 53 mins; April 11, 2025
70mph Drone Deliveries, 125% Tariffs & What $10M Exits Really Mean | E2109
67 hours 13 mins; April 09, 2025
Economic Chaos, More Pitch Madness & the Shopify AI Manifesto | E2108
87 hours 7 mins; April 07, 2025
Rippling Targets $16B, Market Chaos, TikTok Delay,+ Office Hours | E2107
91 hours 40 mins; April 05, 2025
Spycraft in SaaS, Rabbit’s Comeback, and Startup Pitch Madness | E2106
72 hours 54 mins; April 02, 2025
M&A Mania, Palantir Meme Crash + Office Hours with Hookhub | E2105
76 hours 40 mins; March 31, 2025
AI Revolution Gains, Non-Consensus Startups & Prosperous AI | E2104
73 hours 39 mins; March 28, 2025
11x in Trouble and China's AI Acceleration | E2103
74 hours 4 mins; March 26, 2025
23andMe BANKRUPT, Saylor Still Buying Bitcoin, + Founder Interviews | E2102
96 hours 15 mins; March 24, 2025
Fact-Checking Mark Rober, and the Fall of TechCrunch | E2101
61 hours 0 mins; March 21, 2025
Tesla vs. Mark Rober, Google’s $32B M&A Bet, & XRP’s SEC Victory | E2100
63 hours 1 min; March 19, 2025
AI-Powered Coding & Space Tugboats? Inside the Future of Software & Satellites! | E2099
61 hours 41 mins; March 18, 2025
Self-Driving Car Myths, Klarna’s Big IPO & Netflix’s $300M Gamble | E2098
72 hours 52 mins; March 17, 2025
Europe’s Startup Future with Harry Stebbings | E2097
58 mins; March 14, 2025
Is Project Europe a YC Riff? Nick Denton is Back! And more! | E2096
60 hours 47 mins; March 12, 2025
The Future of AI Customer Support with LiveX AI’s Jia Li | AI Basics with Google Cloud
14 mins; March 11, 2025
Student Roy Lee Hacks Amazon, SBF's Jailhouse Chat + more! | E2095
60 hours 41 mins; March 10, 2025
AI’s Next Leap: Hyper-Realistic Agents & Unlimited Power | E2094
48 mins; March 07, 2025
Coreweave IPO, AVRide & Digg is Back! | E2093
68 hours 49 mins; March 05, 2025
AI Agents & the Future of Work with LangChain’s Harrison Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud
19 mins; March 04, 2025
US Crypto Reserve Bombshell, Ramp’s $13B Climb, & more | E2092
59 mins; March 03, 2025
Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091
74 hours 49 mins; February 28, 2025
The Incredible Double Interview: Superhuman and Robinhood
98 hours 42 mins; February 26, 2025
Apple Drops $500B on AI while Google Gemini Eyes Your iOS Devices! | E2089
67 hours 57 mins; February 25, 2025
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