This Week in Startups
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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (100), Chamath Palihapitiya (4), David Friedberg (2), David Sacks (1)
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2026 17 mentions in 12 episodes 1 per episode
- Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
- OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 20 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 20 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 21 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 17 mentions in 14 episodes 1 per episode
- E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- #AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
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