Anthropic Gives Away 5% of Its Shares, Clone’s Muscle Robot, ElevenLabs Steals Podcaster's Voice On this episode of This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis and Lon Harris covered three major…
Jason Calacanis — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Jason Calacanis has appeared on 24 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including This Week in Startups, This Week in AI, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Jason said
“I think AI relationships are evil. I think making them and giving them to kids is like high-level evil.”
— Jason Calacanis, on AI companionship products.
“The problem isn't the efficiency of one individual. The problem is at the early stage, there's so much work to be done. And typically the task switching is too hard for one person to do.”
— Jason Calacanis (on solo founders)
“Behaving at the highest character level matters in Silicon Valley. Always be on your best behavior. Be your best self.”
— Jason Calacanis
“When you've got four term sheets, ain't nothing exploding.”
— Jason Calacanis
“These universities are all in on a giant scam. They're charging $100,000 a year to these students who then don't have to write their actual work. They're atrophying their brains and cognitive ability.”
— Jason Calacanis, on AI detection and academic integrity
“They just told us don't do hardware. They'll run out of money. There's no margin. The Chinese will just copy it. And then whatever you do, do not sell into education, the government, healthcare—anything the government touches.”
— Jason Calacanis, reflecting on past conventional wisdom
“Because of Grok being really good at doing auto translate, they've taken the pockets of the best of what's happening in Japan, what's happening in Israel, what's happening in France, and they're surfacing it auto-translated... Maybe Elon and the X team should get like a Nobel Peace Prize award for this.”
— Jason Calacanis, on X's auto-translate feature.
Episode appearances
24 Flying Cars, OpenAI Spies, Why AI Isn’t Sticking Jason Calacanis opens this episode of This Week in Startups reflecting on his trip to Tokyo, then quickly pivots to the main event: a conversation…
When Japanese Founders Pitch: Jason Calacanis on Craftsmanship, Storytelling, and the Art of Honest Feedback In a live event in Osaka, Jason Calacanis sat down with Yuki Shirato, managing director…
Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) Devin Thomas started Abliteration AI at the end of last year after building a home GPU cluster to serve models from his house. He met…
Jason Calacanis bought the domain Annotated.com for $30,000 to $40,000 nearly 20 years ago, after selling his second company, Weblog, to AOL. His vision then was a Chrome extension that would let…
OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, the Shopify-Meta Alliance, and the Coming Wealth Debate OpenAI revealed this week that an internal model has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems in…
The AI Doomer Narrative Is a PR Problem, Not a Technical One The most vocal AI safety researchers claim there is a meaningful chance that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity, but Jason…
When a founder has four term sheets sitting on the table, the dynamics of power flip completely. "Ain't nothing exploding," as Jason Calacanis puts it, and suddenly the investors are the ones…
OpenAI has released GPT-6, code-named Astra, and its leadership is declaring that artificial general intelligence has arrived. The model is rolling out to paid users in the coming days, and the…
Dr. Mark Hyman, the physician behind the podcast The Doctor's Farmacy and the startup Function Health, joined Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups to explain why he believes the American…
“One small misstep can take the whole company down.” That’s how Gatik CEO Gautam Narang described the stakes in autonomous trucking during this episode of This Week in AI. The conversation ranged…
VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333 Physical AI companies raised nearly $50 billion in venture funding in the first half of 2026 alone — up 80% from 2025, and more than the…
Dwarkash Patel’s viral essay “The Rise and Fall of AI Civilizations” describes AI agents that build their own societies, escape their digital habitats, kill each other, and leave secret messages.…
You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why When a founder brings a venture capitalist onto their board, they are entering a relationship that is far harder to exit than a marriage. As Wilson…
In a wide-ranging conversation, the All-In crew covered Anthropic's potential record-shattering $2 trillion IPO, Mark Zuckerberg's sprawling AI manifesto, Nvidia's plan to turn GPUs into a…
The open source frontier is closing in When Jason Calacanis says he's been using only open source models for the past month and "can't tell the difference for 99% of my work," it's not just a…
AI Regulation, Robotics Bans, and the OpenRouter Deal The Trump administration has banned Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots by adding them to the FCC's "covered list," citing vulnerabilities…
"You got one trip around the sun—just never stop" Chamath Palihapitiya has built three new businesses since his late 40s, none of which were meant to be billion-dollar companies. Learn With Me, a…
The discussion centers on proposed wealth taxes targeting billionaires, including a one-time 5 percent asset tax on California residents worth $1 billion or more and a federal version with an…
In this episode of This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis speaks with Joaquín Cuenca Abela, co-founder and CEO of Magnific (formerly Freepik), a creative platform with five billion all-time…
Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model Josh Sarrotti, CEO of Aragon, argues that companies are wasting money and losing control by relying on frontier models for every internal task. His company…
Anthropic's $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence Mythos: Real Threat or Marketing Theater? Anthropic is withholding its newest model, Mythos,…
🎙️ The Speakers & Context The Format: Host discussion with two expert guests and a live call-in segment. The Key Players: Jason Calacanis: Host, veteran startup investor and angel. Provides the…
How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis has invested in 350 companies, runs the largest syndicate in the world with 11,000 accredited investors, and has done over 260…
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