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Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- ▶ 0:26 Jason Calacanis Garrett, you and I spoke on this week in startups, my other podcast that I've been doing for 16 years.
- ▶ 4:22 Jason Calacanis I remember when we had our first discussion, gosh, so many years ago on This Week in Startups, we were talking about it
- ▶ 11:00 Jason Calacanis Um, and to be clear, when I had you on Twist back in the day, I was like, well, don't you need to know who's in the driver's seat?
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 31:19 Jason Calacanis And somebody had started with Lovable, I think I told you this story when you were on This Week in Startups a year ago, like, and they made some interesting
The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
- ▶ 15:53 Jason Calacanis I currently have three, um, and I said, I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about, and they sent me a channel where somebody had created a bunch of dogs telling jokes, and they made one, and I guess they were looking for a…
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 27:01 Jason Calacanis As one example, I have, it has all the all in episodes, all the This Week in Startups episodes, and we set these cron jobs to go find what the new trends are in technology.
SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- ▶ 36:51 Jason Calacanis I had the Flock CEO in this weekend startups twice in the past 10 years.
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 1:04:26 Jason Calacanis They also have the Wagovi pill, uh, row.co slash twist, uh, to get your- Wait, are you a paid-
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 25:06 Jason Calacanis When we make clips for this podcast, other podcasts, we have a go and look at like a This Week in Startups episode from 10 years, tell us the three best moments, and it makes the clip, it puts the subtitles on it, and then it puts the clip…
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 4:14 David Sacks Yeah, let me just, for, for viewers of this episode who didn't see that episode, let me just summarize what exactly happened there, because I want to just make sure that Jason's reputation is not unfairly impugned, and I don't think you're…
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 5:04 Jason Calacanis Between our portfolio companies, people on this week in startups, and billionaires and financiers, that's the job of an early stage investor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Jason Calacanis Booking guests on This Week in Startups or This Week in AI. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 1:19:12 Jason Calacanis Uh, you've been on the pod before, both This Week in Startups and All In.
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 18:40 Jason Calacanis I had, um, Zach Dell from, uh, base power on this week in startups, I don't know, a year ago now.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 1:28:12 Jason Calacanis Oh, this week in Starbucks is a quarter million.
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 58:21 Jason Calacanis It's interesting you mentioned that because I just had Zach Dell from Base Power on This Week in Startups last week, and what they do is they put batteries on the side of your house, outside their square ones, so they're not as felt as…
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 1:42:45 Jason Calacanis I, literally, when he was doing The Martian, I asked him to be on The Swiggin Startups, like, years ago, and, uh, he's like, yeah, if you come down to my condo in, like, San Diego, not San Diego, in, like, San Jose, or somewhere in the…
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.
- ▶ 12:38 Jason Calacanis I had him on This Week in Startups a couple years ago.
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 22:15 Jason Calacanis I'm seeing a lot of folks in my circle on my podcasts this week in startups and here telling me, oh, I don't know how to plan for the future.
- ▶ 35:03 Jason Calacanis Clothing on This Week in Startups last week, and he said there's gonna be, like, if this doesn't get revolve resolved in, like, let's say two to four weeks in his group chats, people are gonna start layoffs, and they, they can't physically…
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 20:34 Jason Calacanis On my other pod, it makes millions of dollars in ads this week in startups, and it, that helps me have a team of nine people.
- ▶ 33:17 Jason Calacanis I, when, this week, when Star Wars was doing good, right before All In started, I met with the Sirius XM team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:04 Jason Calacanis White listed advertising was something we started on This Week in Startups from the beginning, which was if I don't use the product or don't like it, we, we turn it down.
- ▶ 1:05:08 David Friedberg You have a great content creation at This Week in Startups, which is you, and then you've got this advertiser set up, so you've got ad dollars coming in.
- ▶ 1:08:09 Jason Calacanis Um, but you know, I, I did actually try that with This Week in Startups.
- ▶ 1:19:16 Jason Calacanis He was on This Week in Startups years ago, and then I looked up and he, um, was sharing his nighttime erections on social media.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 1:01:53 Jason Calacanis I mean, the ratings keep going up for this week in startups and all in, so I'll, I'll take it.
- ▶ 1:30:31 Jason Calacanis I, I just had them on this week in startups.
- ▶ 2:00:39 Jason Calacanis When I tweet something, if it was an advertiser or a sponsor of All In or This Week in Startups,
- ▶ 2:03:27 Jason Calacanis I've had her on, uh, This Week in Startups a couple times.
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 12:18 Jason Calacanis He's, um, I've had Brendan on this week in startups a couple times.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 50:44 Jason Calacanis I may do it on This Week in Startups, or if we have time, we'll do it on here, but he, um,
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 1:30:07 Jason Calacanis No, I think Freeburg, you nailed it on this one, because I just had Arush Selvin, who is the PM at Google doing deep research on This Week in Startups yesterday, and this product is nuts, and they designed it to basically be one of these,…
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 1:28:02 Jason Calacanis I did a side by side test, same prompts with our friends in deep mantra on this week in startups.
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 55:18 Jason Calacanis So people have this frequent frustration with This Week in Startups, my other podcasts, all in here, and Joe Rogan, that anything that's not monetized on YouTube doesn't rank high.
- ▶ 1:17:10 Jason Calacanis I, I, I mean, as an American, I don't, you know, putting political parties aside, I had Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation on this week in startups last Tuesday.
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 17:03 Jason Calacanis I did something on my other podcast this week in startups that I'll show you right now that was crazy yesterday.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:43 Jason Calacanis Okay, and with us, of course, the Dark Knight himself, yeah, the Rain Man, David Sachs, and we have a bestie guestie for you folks, friend of my other pod this week in startups, Reid Hoffman is here, and, uh, you know him as a venture…
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 37:18 Jason Calacanis The, I think I may have told this story previously here on this week in startups, but I was talking about, like I was doing research on salaries.
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 1:24:49 Jason Calacanis You can listen to my other podcasts, This Week in Startups.
Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- ▶ 1:47:05 Jason Calacanis You can listen to my other podcasts this week in startups.
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 1:29:29 Jason Calacanis You can listen to my other podcasts this week in startups.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:40:37 Jason Calacanis You can listen to my other podcasts this week in startups.
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 1:42:39 Jason Calacanis You can listen to my other podcasts, This Week in Startups.
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 1:40:49 Jason Calacanis Or search for This Week in Startups on YouTube and follow my other podcast.
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 49:49 Jason Calacanis I had them on This Week in Startups in the last year.
E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- ▶ 44:47 Jason Calacanis I just actually had him on this week in startups.
- ▶ 1:18:06 Jason Calacanis And, uh, the host of This Week in Startups, so search for my podcast, This Week in Startups, when I interview startup founders, gotta get a plug in for that. 3 times in the scene
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 51:44 Jason Calacanis Yeah, this weekend startups archive is going to be worth something at some point, right?
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 51:42 Jason Calacanis He's been on my other podcast, This Week in Startups.
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 1:01:37 Jason Calacanis Interestingly, I had, uh, Dave and Hanmeyer Hanson on this week in startups, and they're releasing something called once.com where they're going to charge for software one time, like we used to do.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 1:25:03 Jason Calacanis I'm going to be bringing this week in startups. 2 times in the scene
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- ▶ 2:25 Jason Calacanis Howie Liu, who's been a guest on This Week in Startups.
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:13:41 Jason Calacanis Last week, Google Bard and Sandeep, Madhra and I played with us on this week in startups.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 16:04 Jason Calacanis At the core, and this is where you and I, we, we, you've been on This Week in Startups, I think three times, and we've had deep discussions about this, the core of financial regulation in the United States is based on accredited investors,…
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 37:24 Jason Calacanis Or, you know, 1800 episodes of This Week in Startups. 2 times in the scene
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 1:33:46 Jason Calacanis I just reviewed it on This Week in Startups.
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 52:14 Jason Calacanis I did J trading as a blatant attempt to get a sponsor for this week in startups.
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 4:13 Jason Calacanis And I talked about that a whole bunch on this week in startups.
- ▶ 1:16:40 Jason Calacanis I had something on this week in startups.
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 24:09 Jason Calacanis It's called this week. 2 times in the scene
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 0:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Sorry, is this the twist live stream? 4 times in the scene
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 58:27 Jason Calacanis Like we were doing an analysis on this week in startups of the, you know, employees per company and the revenue per employee per headcount.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:39 Jason Calacanis No, I mean, This Week in Startup is a niche podcast. 3 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 28:39 Jason Calacanis Well, uh, on my other podcast this week in startups, we played a game chat GPT versus the first result of Google's
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 1:23:57 Jason Calacanis Use the promo code twist.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:39:50 Jason Calacanis Use the promo code twist. 2 times in the scene
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 58:36 Jason Calacanis I actually, I actually have this chart handy, because I was talking about it on This Week in Startups. 2 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 23:26 Jason Calacanis You know, I, you know, I had people on this week at startups.
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- ▶ 55:25 Jason Calacanis For those of you who are unaware, the clip was from a show in March of 2017 episode seven 21 of my other podcast this week in startups.
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 14:24 Jason Calacanis I'll tell you the backstory is I, you know, I, I had invited him on This Week in Stardust before All In came out.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 0:20 Jason Calacanis Every fan of All In and This Week in Startups stops me and takes a selfie.
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 4:27 Jason Calacanis Uh, we've obviously talked about you a whole bunch, and you've been on This Week in Startups, and I think you know all the fellas here.
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 9:46 Jason Calacanis Which, you know, I had the founder on, uh, this week at startups, and he's a pretty good, um, you know, like pretty realistic about the margins in that business.
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 0:11 Jason Calacanis He won't come on this week in startups.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 1:31:29 Jason Calacanis It's called This Week in Startups, where he announced Kana. 2 times in the scene
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 3:41 Jason Calacanis Just to your point about my focus, uh, every week here on the number one tech podcast in the world, and on the number six tech podcast in the world, This Week in Startups, I focus on all of those issues, but let's read, uh, because we can…
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 14:25 Jason Calacanis Thank you for that, uh, David, on this week in startups.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 52:11 Jason Calacanis I got a pre order of his book pre pre release of his book called amp it up and I had him on this weekend startups which will come out in the new year when the book comes out.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 5:15 Jason Calacanis He's been on This Week in Star Wars.
- ▶ 1:15:51 Jason Calacanis But on this week in startups, I've been covering fraud after fraud.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 5:55 Jason Calacanis He's been on This Week in Startups.
- ▶ 31:42 Jason Calacanis They also announced that the founding CEO, Josh Hoffman, who was on this week in startups to maybe a month ago, stepping down as CEO will be replaced.
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 3:23 David Friedberg Sack says, I know it's rough doing 10 years of this week in startups and never getting to number one.
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 1:02:38 Jason Calacanis You can go to pipe.com slash twist to get 12 months free pipe.com
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 26:16 Jason Calacanis So if you look at what we've done with All In, and obviously I have This Week in Startups, if we did the Friedberg on Science podcast, and it was just Friedberg explaining a science topic, and then we did Chamath on public markets, and… 3 times in the scene
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 7:40 Jason Calacanis How about we SPAC this week in startups, and you do it for no participation?
- ▶ 40:04 Jason Calacanis Hester Purse, I had her on my podcast this week in startups, and she, um, they're, they're really getting aggressive in changing the accreditation law, so anybody's gonna be able to be an accredited investor, you just become sophisticated…