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Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 46:14 Jason Calacanis Nine out of 10 startups I talked to in our portfolio at Founder University when I was just in Japan last week, running the next one, they're all working on open source.
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 31:47 Jason Calacanis And then my team came to me and for one of our projects, I was talking to you about founder university, our pre accelerator, they wanted to make an intranet. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 58:33 Jason Calacanis okay, it's a penny a gallon, and then everybody in the organization, and this has literally happened in our organization, one person built like an interface for the Founder University program, another person built one, then another person… 2 times in the scene
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 26:13 Jason Calacanis One of the skills is sorting the incoming applications to Founder University.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 45:49 Jason Calacanis And that's why I'm launched founding university of three continents. 2 times in the scene
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 42:07 Jason Calacanis No, actually, I literally just got back from launching Founder University in Riyadh. 2 times in the scene
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 1:22:04 Brad Gerstner Jake, are you doing Founder University? 3 times in the scene
Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
- ▶ 0:44 Jason Calacanis It's changing so dramatically, year after year, um, and I'm gonna be announced on the podcast two weeks ago, I'll be doing Founder University in Riyadh on November third, fourth, and fifth, and I'm really excited to partner with such a…
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 12:15 Jason Calacanis Doing my founding university, and I've been out there twice a year, maybe for the last three years.
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 7:57 Jason Calacanis We just sort of soft launched that we're going to be bringing Founder University. 3 times in the scene
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 0:13 Jason Calacanis Make sure you tune in to this week in startups and apply to founder universities.
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 1:28:26 Jason Calacanis I'm not telling you to go to founder.university.
- ▶ 1:36:14 Jason Calacanis No, this is from founder.university applications coming in for around the world. 2 times in the scene
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 32:25 Jason Calacanis Founder University now is just trying to do a hundred. 2 times in the scene
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 1:59 Jason Calacanis If you're a founder, we are having our ninth cohort of Foundry University. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 Jason Calacanis So go to founder.university to apply for my twelve-week program.
- ▶ 1:22:49 Jason Calacanis Make sure if you're starting a company, you go to founder.university.
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 1:35:15 Jason Calacanis To my accelerators and my programs, founder.university, lunch.close.apply to apply for funding from your boy J Cal for your startup, and check out athenawow.com.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 2:11:08 Jason Calacanis If you are a founder and you want to come to my accelerators and my programs, founder.university, lunch.close.apply to apply for funding from your boy J Cal for your startup, and check out athenawow.com.
Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
- ▶ 1:31:06 Jason Calacanis If you are a founder and you want to come to my accelerators and my programs, founder.university, lunch.close.apply to apply for funding from your boy J Cal for your startup, and check out athenawow.com.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 1:45:25 Jason Calacanis If you are a founder and you want to come to my accelerators and my programs, founder.university, lunch.close.apply to apply for funding from your boy J Cal for your startup, and check out athenawow.com.
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:25:02 Jason Calacanis If you are a founder and you want to come to my accelerators and my programs, founder.university, lunch.close.apply to apply for funding from your boy J Cal for your startup.
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 57:59 Jason Calacanis We created something called Founder University to kind of, it's a 12 week course where we teach people how to do this stuff. 2 times in the scene
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 49:28 Jason Calacanis Many companies come to founder university, and two or three people who want to build a company who can't get jobs at Google or Stripe, they're not hiring.
- ▶ 1:25:14 Jason Calacanis And I'm going to bring my founder university to the region as well. 2 times in the scene
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 27:10 Jason Calacanis And I went to, I hosted our accelerator in person, and then I hosted Founder University in person in the city. 2 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 56:44 Jason Calacanis We'll be at my attorney's office and we're having like a, a founder university with just all these new startups that we invested in to just hang out for a day.
- ▶ 58:11 Jason Calacanis I had a company come out of our founder university.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 1:06:25 Jason Calacanis We started a program called founder.university and it's basically like a 12 week course on like how to build your MVP. 3 times in the scene