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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss StubHub's IPO (3:26), inflation trends (23:46), the venture capital landscape in Asia and Europe (30:00), OpenAI’s five levels of AI (46:32), TWIST 500 updates (58:32), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(3:26) StubHub's IPO
(12:47) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist
(13:39) Experience-based Companies and Entertainment Industry
(17:56) Cost-effective Entertainment
(22:37) Attio - Head to https://attio.com/twist to get 15% off for your first year.
(23:46) Inflation Trends and Venture Capital Impact
(30:00) Venture Capital Landscape in Asia and Europe
(33:12) Investment Trends in India and the Middle East
(37:54) CLA - Get started with CLA's CPAs, consultants, and wealth advisors now at https://claconnect.com/tech
(39:28) Investor Interest in India and Geopolitical Considerations
(46:32) OpenAI's five levels of AI
(53:29) AI competition, model advancements, and the future of SaaS
(58:32) TWIST 500 updates and startups in the construction tech space
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Mentioned on the show:
https://sierra.ai/blog/ai-agents-guide
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/asia-venture-42dot-hozon-zepto-china/
https://www.mightybuildings.com
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Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland
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| 0:00.0 | When Stripe goes public, those distributions happen, that's when the good times start to roll again. |
| 0:05.2 | Why? Well, because people will have renewed faith in the venture capital industrial complex. |
| 0:14.0 | This venture capital industrial complex, |
| 0:16.0 | people don't believe in it right now |
| 0:18.1 | because they haven't seen the exits. |
| 0:19.7 | And so when you have a couple of years, |
| 0:22.4 | of very few exits, |
| 0:24.1 | now people start to say, well, maybe they'll never be one again. |
| 0:27.7 | They literally become so pessimistic. |
| 0:30.5 | The Boston Celtics will never win a title again. |
| 0:33.7 | We traded Kevin Garnett or whatever. |
| 0:36.6 | And then all of a sudden, Hope Springs Eternal |
| 0:38.8 | and they're back in the game and they win a championship. |
| 0:41.8 | This weekend startups is brought to you by |
| 0:45.0 | Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for |
| 0:49.0 | startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. |
| 0:56.3 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. Adio, a radically new CRM for the next era of companies. |
| 1:07.8 | Head to Adio.com slash Twist to get 15% off for your first year. |
| 1:13.0 | And, |
| 1:14.0 | CLA. Innovation takes balance. |
| 1:17.0 | CLAs, CPA's, consultants, and wealth advisors can help you get from startup to where you want to end up. Get started now |
| 1:24.7 | at cla connect.com slash tech. All right everybody welcome back to this week in |
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