This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.

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Why is Gen Z hates AI?

May 18, 2026

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The Self-Driving Startup Nobody Saw Coming | E2289

May 15, 2026

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How Many Startups Will Survive OpenAI? | E2288

May 13, 2026

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How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)

May 13, 2026

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Cerebras's IPO goes vertical, and the death of OpenClaw? | E2287

May 11, 2026

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5,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286

May 9, 2026

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The end of Venture Capital? (VC Roundtable) | E2285

May 6, 2026

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Naval's GP, Ankur Nagpal, Breaks Down The Viral “USVC” Fund | E2284

May 5, 2026

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Can an AI Agent Legally Own a Company? Christian van der Henst's Wild Experiment| E2283

May 1, 2026

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Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics

Apr 30, 2026

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The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282

Apr 29, 2026

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To the left of this of thumbnail i want to add a chinese flag to the left destroying the meta logo. because the title is China Kills Meta / Manus Deal (Story Of The Year) | E2281

Apr 28, 2026

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Naval’s $500 VC fund, the Maduro Polymarket scandal, and NYT defends theft and murder | E2280

Apr 25, 2026

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The Defense Tech Startup YC Kicked Out of a Meeting is Now Arming America | E2280

Apr 25, 2026

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SpaceX and Cursor team up to topple Claude Code | E2279

Apr 22, 2026

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Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278

Apr 21, 2026

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3D-Printed Homes for $99K: ICON’s Jason Ballard on the future of housing | E2277

Apr 18, 2026

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This 22-Year-Old Built TikTok for Mobile Games, and It’s Growing Fast | E2276

Apr 15, 2026

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Bittensor’s (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275

Apr 14, 2026

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Bittensor Drama! TAO down 15%! | E2274

Apr 11, 2026

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Anthropic’s Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can’t have it | E2273

Apr 9, 2026

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3 AI Agents That Actually Replaced Human Jobs | E2272

Apr 7, 2026

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AI Rebuilt Every YC W26 Startup. Should Founders Be Scared? | E2271

Apr 3, 2026

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How 3 CEOs Use AI to Run $10B in Companies | This Week in AI

Apr 2, 2026

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Venture Roundtable: SpaceX IPO, AI's PR Crisis, and the Defense Tech Bubble | E2270

Apr 1, 2026

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The 5-Step Framework for AI Agents That Improve While You Sleep | E2269

Mar 31, 2026

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The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268

Mar 27, 2026

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This Bittensor Subnet Could Cut Drug Discovery Costs in HALF | E2267

Mar 26, 2026

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$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6

Mar 25, 2026

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Compliance Startup Scandal... Is Delve Guilty? | E2266

Mar 24, 2026

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The Drone Company Everyone Thought Was Illegal (Now Worth $4B+) | E2265

Mar 20, 2026

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How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev

Mar 18, 2026

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Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans?

Mar 16, 2026

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One Genius Rule That Made This Coffee Brand Famous | EP 2262

Mar 14, 2026

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The Global Expansion of Self-Driving Vehicles

Mar 11, 2026

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How agents will change banking forever | E2260

Mar 10, 2026

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How agents will change banking forever | E2260

Mar 10, 2026

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Wisdom of the $TAO: the future is decentralized AI

Mar 6, 2026

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Is Anthropic Making the Biggest Mistake in AI History | E2258

Mar 5, 2026

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How the OpenClaw foundation bullet-proofed its future (w/Dave Morin) | E2257

Mar 3, 2026

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The Biggest Private Funding Round in History | E2256

Feb 28, 2026

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Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252

Feb 26, 2026

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Kill Your Startup’s Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254

Feb 24, 2026

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We Asked 3 Experts How to Get More Value out of OpenClaw | E2253

Feb 21, 2026

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When Will Openclaw go Mainstream? | E2252

Feb 19, 2026

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Will OpenAI Tank OpenClaw? | E2251

Feb 17, 2026

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OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250

Feb 14, 2026

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Why J-Cal Invested to 200K in a former Employee | E2249

Feb 12, 2026

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

Feb 12, 2026

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Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247

Feb 10, 2026

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