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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(1:50) Nvidia earnings for First Quarter Fiscal 2025
(12:53) Zendesk - Get six months free at http://www.zendesk.com/twist
(14:32) Continuing discussion on Nvidia's earnings
(22:39) News Corp and OpenAI strike ‘multi year global partnership’
(29:21) Mercury - Join 200K startups who use Mercury to operate at their best at http://mercury.com
(30:51) Apple News+ is driving big numbers for The Daily Beast
(39:03) HiddenLayer - HiddenLayer’s AI Detection & Response Solution secures your Generative AI & LLMs from malicious attack. Visit https://HiddenLayer.com/TWiST to learn more.
(40:14) Wearable AI startup Humane is exploring a sale
(50:56) Windows Recall
(1:08:45) Farcaster raises $150M: Is crypto making a comeback?
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Links and articles from show:
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2025
https://gizmodo.com/humane-ai-pin-selling-billion-1851493143
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/openai-news-corp-strike-deal-23f186ba?mod=latest_headlines
https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2025/Rev_by_Mkt_Qtrly_Trend_Q125.pdf
https://x.com/dsiroker/status/1792956339515273537
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Right, everybody welcome back to this week in startups. It's our news roundtable. |
| 0:04.0 | We have two breaking news stories and videos earnings are out and Open AI and News Corp have done a big licensing deal a quarter of a billion dollar licensing deal |
| 0:19.4 | with me to discuss it all Alex Wilhelm the new co-host of this week and startups welcome back to the program |
| 0:25.4 | Alex. |
| 0:26.4 | Hey good to be here I freaking love breaking news I love earnings I love media economics |
| 0:31.4 | it's like this show is designed for me today. I am the happiest kid in school. |
| 0:35.0 | This is why I wanted you to ask co-host because I know you love this stuff and I love this stuff. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's get to work. |
| 0:46.0 | This weekend startups is brought to you by Zen Desk. |
| 0:48.0 | The best customer experiences are built with Zen Desk. |
| 0:52.0 | Qualifying startups can join their startup program and get |
| 0:55.4 | Zen Desk products for free for six months. Visit Zen Desk.com |
| 1:00.5 | slash Twist today to get started. |
| 1:04.2 | Mercury. 90% of startups fail. Just 10 out of every 100 make it. |
| 1:12.1 | Mercury exists to close that gap, helping companies succeed with |
| 1:16.3 | banking and credit cards engineered for the startup journey. Join over 100,000 |
| 1:22.1 | companies banking with Mercury at Mercury.com |
| 1:26.0 | And Hidden Laird. |
| 1:29.1 | Generative AI is revolutionizing industries. Hidden layers AI detection and response |
| 1:35.2 | solution secures your generative AI and LLMs from malicious attack helping you |
| 1:41.0 | generate more by enabling seamless and secure generative AI. |
| 1:46.0 | Visit Hidden Laird.com slash twist to learn more. |
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