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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss Nvidia's rise as the most valuable company (2:34), the GLP-1 phenomenon (11:50), the FTC suing Adobe (34:21), new TWIST500 companies (47:09), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(2:34) Nvidia's rise as the most valuable company
(10:58) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist
(11:50) Eli Lilly and the GLP-1 Phenomenon
(23:42) .Tech Domains - Apply for the Jam Session with JCal contest today at https://jamwithjcal.tech
(25:08) Telehealth and its future
(33:00) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(34:21) FTC sues Adobe
(47:09) New TWIST500 Companies
(1:18:22) Would Amazon buy TikTok?
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Mentioned on the show:
https://companiesmarketcap.com
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/david-ricks-eli-lilly-ceo-a67f90d7
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1356176/dl?inline
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1997859/000119312524162032/d396527ds1a.htm
https://www.color.com/blog/colors-copilot-and-partnership-with-openai
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB390
https://www.royalroad.com/home
https://www.ft.com/content/e33cb565-6d44-4f9a-9105-f3afc03aa732
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New TWIST500 companies:
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(23:42) .Tech Domains - Apply for the Jam Session with JCal contest today at https://jamwithjcal.tech
(33:00) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 0:02.6 | It's your boy, Jay Cow, Jason Calicanish, you can follow me on Twitter |
| 0:06.9 | at Jason X.com. |
| 0:08.2 | So I invest in 100 companies a year, if it's your first time here, |
| 0:12.1 | with the team of 20. |
| 0:13.4 | We also have a podcast called This Week of Startups. |
| 0:15.2 | We've done almost 2,000 episodes. |
| 0:17.3 | And my co-host is Alex Wilhelm. |
| 0:19.3 | He is formerly of a little publication called Tech Crunch |
| 0:22.6 | and an amazing database called Crunchbase. |
| 0:25.9 | And is the guy who in high school |
| 0:30.7 | was excited about stocks and startups. He confessed to me. He was Alex P Keaton. |
| 0:36.5 | And you know what? I was running all kinds of great businesses. Jason's hot |
| 0:40.2 | date, my first business when I was making copies of the Empire Strikes Back from a guy from, I think |
| 0:45.2 | it was a Gambino family and I don't know, I don't want to be a rat here and eat cheese, but anyway, |
| 0:50.8 | we're both into it. We're both really into startups, technology, and business. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much my three favorite things to talk about, |
| 0:57.9 | and it's what I've talked about for a long time. |
| 0:59.6 | So it is always lovely, Jason, to see you. |
| 1:01.5 | I am Alex overon X slash Twitter. |
| 1:04.0 | We're also on LinkedIn, and we stream this show live |
| 1:06.2 | when we do it. |
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