This Week in Startups

Do Kwon Guilty, Powell Pivot & OpenAI’s $12B Run Rate | E2168

Do Kwon Guilty, Powell Pivot & OpenAI’s $12B Run Rate | E2168

Is Chalk.ai the ‘Next Databricks’? + Tollbit’s Bot Paywall for AI Agents | E2167

Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom’s Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud

Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166

Meta’s “Sensual” AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor’s dreams became memes +  OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165

The End of the ZIRP Era, and why recruiting is SO PAINFUL | E2164

GPT Psychosis is spreading, the NYT is Super-Doxxing Zuck, and Trump is wetting his beak on Chinese chip exports | E2163

GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162

Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161

Lina Khan’s Figma victory lap, Meta’s Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160

TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159

All Star Investor Panel! Sophia Amoruso and Ryan Hoover | E2158

Figma IPO, IMAX AI Festival, the Tea app spill, that one Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and more! | E2157

Behind the scenes at the ALL-IN AI SUMMIT w/ POTUS, JD Vance, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and more… | E2156

AUTOMATING HEALTH CARE, THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING, AND PRODUCT VELOCITY | E2155

Manufacturing in the US, Building in Open Source… and more | E2154

Inside Substack’s $100M Push to Fend Off Beehiiv | E2153

Thinking Machines’ RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152

Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151

Grok 4 Beats OpenAI + The $300 AI Agent Era | E2150

Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs’ Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud

Starlink + Tesla? $4T Nvidia? Perplexity Browser? Linda Yaccarino Steps Down? | E2149

Cloud Seeding, Conspiracies & the Texas Floods | BONUS EPISODE!

Exits Are Back, QSB Stock & The New America Party? | E2148

Startup Valuations, Biotech’s Crunch & AI’s Massive TAM | E2147

The Grammarly–Superhuman Megadeal, plus TWiST 500 chats with LabelBox and Apptronik’s founders | E2146

Rebuilding Civilization from First Principles: Inside Balaji’s Network State Vision | E2145

Travis’ Uber Comeback, AGI’s Stakes, Meta’s $100M AI Hires & Prediction Market Gold Rush | E2144

Multi-Agent AI, Open Protocols & Startup Acceleration with Saurabh Tiwary | AI Basics

VC Roundtable: Recruiting Secrets, Second-Time Founders & Product-Market Fit Myths | E2143

AI Producers, Tesla Robotaxis & the Rise of the “Tiny Teams” Era | E2142

The Strip Mining Era of LLMs—And Why It’s About to End | E2141

From Drones to Dystopia: The Future of Jobs, Fires & Meta’s AI Land Grab | E2140

Meta, Scale, and the Future of AI Labeling: Did Zuck Just Kill a Category? | E2139

Stripe’s Crypto Wallet, M&A Momentum, and Robots Replacing Soul-Crushing Jobs | E2138

TWIST VC Roundtable: Startup Valuations, Secondary Markets & the YC Revenue Illusion | E2137

YC Valuations, VC Slowdown, and Office Hours with CustomerIQ | E2136

Circle’s IPO Soars, The Future of VC and Cursor’s Crazy Growth | E2135

Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf, Deel Rewrites the Narrative and Flock Safety’s Surveillance Tech | E2134

Grammarly’s $1B Round, Brain Computers, and NYT Licenses To Amazon | E2133

How AthenaHQ and Browser Use Are Building the Next Layer of the Internet | E2132

Google’s AI Design Tool, Salesforce’s $8B Comeback Deal, and M&A Momentum Builds | E2131

Apple’s Tariff Trouble, Anthropic’s New Models, and Our Founder Friday Finale | E2130

David Friedberg on AI-First Startups & the Future of Biology, Business & Creativity | AI Basics with Google Cloud

Jony Ive Joins OpenAI, Waymo Hits 10M Rides, and How to Launch a Marketplace from Scratch | E2129

Drones, Design, and Digital Espionage | E2128

Microsoft Layoffs, Immigration Blunders, & Office Hours with Jeremy Redman of Airfive | E2127

Chime’s IPO, Databricks’ $1B Acquisition & Dave Rubin’s Media Empire | E2126

Agentic AI Meets Cybersecurity + Solar Robots in the Desert | E2125

Anti-Work Uprising, Copyright Wars & the StreamFog Solution | E2124