Generative AI's potential, Spotify Wrapped + AMP Robotics Founder Matanya Horowitz | E1624
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
First up, Jason answers two great questions from the most recent cohort of Founder University! (1:34) Then, Molly and Producer Rachel discuss Spotify Wrapped's marketing genius and a potential new contemporary. (22:33) Finally, AMP Robotics Founder Matanya Horowitz joins Molly for another edition of The Next Unicorns! (40:02)
(0:00) Molly tees up today's segments!
(1:34) Ask Jason! Is the Generative AI boom for real?
(11:42) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(13:12) Ask Jason! How to survive text-to-image tools as a designer
(15:00) Ask Jason! How to build relationships with investors before you start fundraising
(21:07) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://LinkedIn.com/unicorn
(22:33) Molly and Producer Rachel break down this year's Spotify Wrapped (and a new contemporary!)
(38:38) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist
(40:02) Molly is joined by AMP Robotics founder Matanya Horowitz to talk about building recycling-focused robots!
(52:04) AMP's customers, target market, company mission, and how they train AI
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Wednesday. We've got a big show coming up for you today. First up, |
| 0:05.2 | Jason answers a few really in-depth ask Jason questions from our founder university cohort. |
| 0:12.7 | Then Rachel and I get together to break down Spotify wrapped the most wonderful time of the year, |
| 0:19.5 | but actually we talk about the viral marketing genius and a new player who's preempting wrapped, |
| 0:25.9 | building on top of this viral marketing trend. We have a good time with that and it's Wednesday, |
| 0:31.0 | so you know we're having a next unicorn founder on the show. This week I interviewed Matanya Horowitz |
| 0:36.1 | of Amp Robotics, which is doing something near and dear to my heart in climate tech, |
| 0:41.7 | and also robots. It's a great conversation. Stick with us. This week in Startups is brought to you by |
| 0:47.8 | Open Phone. As a startup founder, a lot of mistakes are easy to roll back, but using your |
| 0:53.0 | personal cell phone number as your company number isn't one of them. Open Phone makes it easy |
| 0:57.6 | to get business phone numbers for you and your team right on top of your existing devices. |
| 1:02.8 | Visit openphone.com slash twist to get 20% off your first six months. LinkedIn jobs, |
| 1:09.6 | a business is only as strong as its people and every higher matters. Post your first job for free |
| 1:16.2 | at LinkedIn.com slash unicorn and crowd bodics. Great ideas can change the world and crowd bodics |
| 1:24.4 | is the fastest way to turn those ideas into code. Get a free scoping session for your next big app |
| 1:30.0 | idea at crowdbodics.com slash twist. All right everybody if you haven't heard I started teaching |
| 1:37.9 | a free course called Founder University. Why am I doing this? Well I love founders. I love hearing |
| 1:43.2 | what they're building maybe helping them with some inspiration. So every Monday, every Thursday |
| 1:48.8 | at 6 p.m. Pacific time. I spend an hour and a half with 350 founders or aspiring founders |
| 1:56.4 | and you can sign up for the next cohort at founder.university. It's just a lot of fun. It's a way for me |
| 2:02.0 | to spend time with founders right as they're starting their companies and we will take about |
| 2:07.1 | 10 of those 350 founders and put $25,000 into their company. We'll be their friends and family |
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