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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Todays show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss the potential of new search engines (16:44), the future of SEO(37:35), and demo innovative AI products (48:37).
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(2:42) Deep Dive into the cost of running queries and the decrease in the price of hardware storage
(11:41) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist
(12:33) The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
(16:44) Modern Answer Engines: You.com and Perplexity
(28:53) Eight Sleep - Go to https://www.eightsleep.com/twist $200 off the Pod plus free shipping
(30:22) Potential and challenges of new search engines
(36:30) Equinix - Join the Equinix Startup Program for up to $100K in credits and much more at https://deploy.equinix.com/startups
(37:35) Future of SEO and data sources in the context of new search engines
(48:37) Sunny demos Infinity AI
(54:35) Sunny and Jason discuss Hume AI’s Empathic Voice Interface
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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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| 0:15.9 | Wow it did it in maybe five like a couple of minutes not bad I mean it's pretty great when you think about it because it did the |
| 0:26.3 | video the audio and the script is what you're saying yes yes so this is like the whole |
| 0:30.9 | complete and it didn't do a full episode, but if it could do nine seconds, |
| 0:35.7 | it'll be able to do 90 seconds next year and nine minutes a year after and then 90 minutes a year after that. |
| 0:40.8 | So this is unbelievably good. This week in startups is brought to you by |
| 0:46.8 | Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:54.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a Sock 2 report fast. |
| 1:00.0 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. |
| 1:07.0 | 8 sleep. |
| 1:08.9 | Good sleep is the ultimate game changer. |
| 1:12.0 | Now you can add the pod cover to any mattress. Go to |
| 1:15.8 | 8Sleepe.com slash twist to check out the pod cover and get $200 off the pod plus |
| 1:22.2 | free shipping. |
| 1:24.0 | And the Equinix startup program offers a hybrid infrastructure solution for startups, |
| 1:31.0 | including up to $100, dollars in credits and personalized consultations and guidance from the |
| 1:36.6 | equinix team. Go to equinix startups to apply today. |
| 1:41.4 | All right everybody welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 1:44.4 | It's AI Tuesdays. |
| 1:45.9 | Record on Monday. |
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