This Week in Startups
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Castelion Hypersonic Missiles and Crunchbase’s AI Powered Predictions | E2088
55 mins; February 21, 2025
EV Truck Startup Nikola Runs Out of Juice | E2087
66 hours 41 mins; February 19, 2025
Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086
70 hours 8 mins; February 18, 2025
IPO Shakeups, NVIDIA’s Big Bets & Must-Know Founder Hacks | E2085
80 hours 10 mins; February 14, 2025
Slow Ventures' Creators Fund and Helion Energy's Fusion Reactors | 2084
64 hours 47 mins; February 12, 2025
Tech's Super Bowl, Huge Earnings Week, Lon Returns and more! | E2083
65 hours 18 mins; February 10, 2025
Gas Stations in Space and Carried Interest on the Chopping Block | E2082
62 hours 46 mins; February 07, 2025
Is Palantir's Surge Just Hype | E2081
57 mins; February 05, 2025
Lovable's Anton Osika on Revolutionizing Software Development and OpenAI Drops Deep Research | E2080
66 hours 52 mins; February 03, 2025
Is OpenAI Really Worth $300B? ElevenLabs’ Series C & YC’s Funding Focus | E2079
73 hours 16 mins; January 31, 2025
Boom Supersonic's Milestones, OpenAI Ethics, and Startup Tools | E2078
62 hours 33 mins; January 29, 2025
DeepSeek Rattles Markets + SailPoint's Going Public… again? | E2077
59 mins; January 27, 2025
Twilio Bets Small, DeepSeek Scares & the GameOn Fraud | E2076
58 mins; January 24, 2025
Created By Humans | Sila’s Battery Evolution | E2075
59 mins; January 23, 2025
Trump, Memecoins, and What to Expect from the New Administration | E2074
72 hours 25 mins; January 20, 2025
TikTok Ban, Data Centers in Space… and What's a Vector? | E2073
62 hours 50 mins; January 17, 2025
What’s Going On With Google Gemini Deep Research? | E2072
68 hours 26 mins; January 15, 2025
Profound, Resistant AI & OpenAI’s Economic Pitch | E2071
67 hours 16 mins; January 13, 2025
The LA Fire's Cost and the U.S. Jobs Report | E2070
55 mins; January 10, 2025
Meta's Moderation and Nvidia's Domination | E2069
67 hours 32 mins; January 08, 2025
Twist News: Fusion, Rural Investment, and Applied AI | E2068
69 hours 7 mins; January 06, 2025
Venture Concentration, High-Skill Immigration, And Who Should Buy Lyft? | E2067
68 hours 8 mins; January 03, 2025
2024 TWISTY Awards | E2066
52 mins; December 30, 2024
Palantir’s Valuation, VC’s Go To Washington and Much More | E2065
75 hours 54 mins; December 23, 2024
Codeium’s Vision for AI-Driven Development with Varun Mohan | E2064
59 mins; December 20, 2024
Databricks' Record Raise, TikTok goes to the Supreme Court, and all about the Grammarly-Coda Deal | E2063
69 hours 36 mins; December 18, 2024
Sora Disappoints, ChatGPT Pro Tested, Inference Time Reasoning & More with Sunny Madra | E2062
62 hours 5 mins; December 17, 2024
Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061
62 hours 12 mins; December 16, 2024
Cyera's Hypergrowth, Cake's Cap Table Push, and ServiceTitan's Stellar IPO | E2060
69 hours 38 mins; December 13, 2024
The Top 6 Startup Finance FAQ’s | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn
25 mins; December 12, 2024
Negative Venture Returns, GM Kneecaps Cruise, and Finix joins the TWiST500 | E2059
66 hours 23 mins; December 11, 2024
Drones, Deepfakes, and Disruptors with Lon Harris, Remento and Cuby | E2058
79 hours 21 mins; December 11, 2024
TWiST News: Bitcoin’s Future, Reddit Answers, SEC Shifts, and more! | E2057
87 hours 58 mins; December 09, 2024
Ghost Engineers, Measuring Productivity, & Memecoin Scams | E2056
72 hours 41 mins; December 06, 2024
Year-End Planning for Startup Success | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn
22 mins; December 05, 2024
TWiST News: $100k Veteran Pitch Winner EMPEQ, US Unicorn Dominance, and T500 Updates | E2055
81 hours 35 mins; December 04, 2024
TWiST News: Bitcoin, Saylor's Microsoft Pitch, and the Delaware-Tesla Fight | E2054
82 hours 11 mins; December 03, 2024
TWiST News: Pardons, Enron, Crypto's Moment, and the Future of Chinese Venture | E2053
82 hours 47 mins; December 02, 2024
The Self-Driving Unicorn You Need to Meet & MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Bet | E2052
53 mins; November 26, 2024
TWiST News: Startups & Wealth Taxes, The Bitcoin Boom, and The OpenAI Browser | E2051
83 hours 10 mins; November 25, 2024
How Startups Can Crush Enterprise AI Sales | E2050
58 mins; November 22, 2024
TWiST News: Nvidia's AI Edge, Google Might Have to Sell Chrome, and Founder Fridays Updates | E2049
78 hours 21 mins; November 21, 2024
TWiST News: Venture-Backed Defense Startups, Anti-Drone Guns, and Querio's AI Data Platform | E2048
75 hours 29 mins; November 20, 2024
Anatomy of a Win-Win Acquisition: Synergy, Growth, AI, and the Future of SaaS | E2047
63 hours 51 mins; November 19, 2024
TWiST News: Netflix Goes Live, The FCC Revamp, Free Speech, and Regulatory Shifts | E2046
79 hours 46 mins; November 18, 2024
Misaligned Incentives Between GPs and Founders with Altimeter's Jamin Ball | E2045
61 hours 39 mins; November 15, 2024
TWiST News: Face Robots, Solar's Growth, The Polymarket Mess, and YC's Latest Call for Startups | E2044
93 hours 18 mins; November 14, 2024
TWiST News: Underwater Drones, Robot Swarms, and Klarna's Going Public | E2043
74 hours 35 mins; November 13, 2024
TWiST News: Serve Robotics, High Skill Immigration, and the Trump Trade | E2042
82 hours 41 mins; November 11, 2024
TWiST News: Reddit Earnings, Apple Intelligence, and more AI money | E2041
90 hours 23 mins; November 08, 2024
TWiST News: Skydio's Drones, High-Skill immigration, and M&A Unleashed | E2040
80 hours 43 mins; November 06, 2024
Insane Demands of AI & Datacenters: Exowatt’s Mission for Affordable, Sustainable Power| E2039
53 mins; November 05, 2024
TWiST News: AI in Gaming, Nvidia and GPU Clouds, Nuclear Energy Challenges, and Waymo Updates | E2038
68 hours 6 mins; November 04, 2024
TWiST News: Grape-picking robots, startup investing for all, and the earnings numbers you need to know | E2037
90 hours 53 mins; November 01, 2024
Fast growth, big capital, and how Moniepoint is building a fintech unicorn in Africa | E2036
54 mins; October 31, 2024
AI-Driven Auto Shops with Mastertech.ai and Data Observability with Monte Carlo | E2035
55 mins; October 29, 2024
TWiST News: The Startup Redefining Sonos, Influencers, Elections and Google's next AI push | E2034
85 hours 5 mins; October 28, 2024
Merge's Unified API Bet in the AI Era | E2033
53 mins; October 25, 2024
AI for Investors, Publisher Rewards, Sleep Tech & More – 2024 Jam with JCal Recap | E2032
78 hours 21 mins; October 24, 2024
TWiST News: Headphones.com, How Sound Takes Down Drones, TollBit Secures Series A | E2031
75 hours 0 mins; October 23, 2024
Election Security, Skift's Rafat Ali, and Anthropic Unleashes PC AI | E2030
85 hours 9 mins; October 22, 2024
TWiST News: F1 on Apple Vision Pro, Self-Driving, and Stablecoins | E2029
72 hours 16 mins; October 21, 2024
The Anatomy of a Startup Acquisition with Cacheflow's Sarika Garg | E2028
52 mins; October 18, 2024
The Best Financial Advice VCs Give Startups | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn
21 mins; October 17, 2024
TWiST News: Subscription Economics, Density's Waffle, and The Cost of AV Fleets | E2027
65 hours 1 min; October 16, 2024
AI Demos: ChatGPT-o4 Canvas, Notebook LM & Meta's Movie Gen | E2026
65 hours 49 mins; October 15, 2024
TWiST News: Tesla Robotaxis, Electric RVs, and How Startups are Helping Secure Elections | E2025
75 hours 11 mins; October 14, 2024
TWiST500 Spotlight: The must-know startups from AI to robotics! | E2024
36 mins; October 11, 2024
Navigating the AI Boom | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn
23 mins; October 10, 2024
TWiST News: M.G. Siegler Explains the Current Venture Crisis and Google’s Antitrust Woes | E2023
74 hours 44 mins; October 09, 2024
The Next-Generation of Single-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplanes with Radian's Richard Humphrey | E2022
55 mins; October 08, 2024
Hacking Meta's AR glasses, a shakeup at Initialized, and the best startups of the decade | E2021
65 hours 43 mins; October 07, 2024
Highlighting Data Intelligence with Databricks & Bonbon’s Reward Innovation | E2020
85 hours 46 mins; October 04, 2024
The Automation Endgame, VCs Returning Cash, and the OpenAI Wager | E2019
84 hours 42 mins; October 02, 2024
Monique Woodard, Fund of Funds Panel & The Pro-Rata Yacht! | E2018
51 mins; October 01, 2024
The AI Supercycle, California's AI Safety Bill Vetoed, and the Future of AR/VR | E2017
71 hours 24 mins; September 30, 2024
The Future of Sound: Udio’s Vision for AI-Generated Music | E2016
54 mins; September 27, 2024
Data Centers and Energy with Phil Deutch | E2015
37 mins; September 26, 2024
OpenAI CTO Departure, DOJ AI Compliance, M&A Trends, and more! | E2014
87 hours 19 mins; September 25, 2024
Amazon's RTO Impact, Lina Khan’s 60 Minutes, and Microsoft's Big Nuclear Deals | E2013
79 hours 54 mins; September 23, 2024
How Pie's 'Block Ads, Get Paid' Model Is Giving Users Control of Ads & Privacy | E2012
53 mins; September 20, 2024
Navigating Challenges in Distressed Companies with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
21 mins; September 19, 2024
No hype, Just works: How Comma reached 100M miles in autonomous driving | E2011
45 mins; September 18, 2024
Summarize Anything & Discover Connections with Recall’s Sankari Nair | E2010
41 mins; September 17, 2024
OpenAI's new models, the MrBeast leak, Waymo ♥’s Uber and more! | E2009
72 hours 47 mins; September 16, 2024
Relationship Advice of the Investor Sort with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter | E2008
34 mins; September 13, 2024
The New Power Law & How I Built a $100B Portfolio | E2007
50 mins; September 11, 2024
Boom: Supersonic speeds for everyday travel with Blake Scholl | E2006
87 hours 42 mins; September 10, 2024
Scaling Childcare with Tech: Winnie.com’s Blueprint for Growing with Purpose & Profit | E2005
63 hours 29 mins; September 09, 2024
The Rise of Stablecoins with Circle’s Jeremy Allaire | E2004
68 hours 11 mins; September 06, 2024
Medium: Reaching Profitability while The Internet is Broken + CorePod | E2003
78 hours 56 mins; September 05, 2024
Fundraising hurdles and M&A slowdown with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
24 mins; September 05, 2024
Superhuman 2.0: The AI edge, top productivity hacks, and the future of email | E2002
74 hours 22 mins; September 04, 2024
AI Demos: Gemini Gmail, Search GPT, Groq with Voice & Playground | E2001
67 hours 54 mins; September 03, 2024
Episode 2000! Epic guests, huge news, and how to build a media legacy in 14 short years | E2000
97 hours 19 mins; August 30, 2024
Startup Pitch Competition: Three founders compete for $25K | E1999
41 mins; August 28, 2024
The charges against Pavel Durov, the future of encryption, and secondaries are heating up | E1998
75 hours 53 mins; August 26, 2024
AI Demos: New Runway, Flux, Grok 2.0 & Jam Session with Ulama | E1997
78 hours 6 mins; August 23, 2024
Legal must-haves before raising capital with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
21 mins; August 22, 2024
AI on the blockchain, Waymo's rise, and the truth about tech layoffs | E1996
76 hours 39 mins; August 21, 2024