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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss AI's role in gaming with Decart’s AI-generated video game and its potential impact.(10:31) Viral growth strategies for startups and Runway AI's video creation innovations. Financial topics include NVIDIA's market value and Amazon's nuclear power ambitions.(21:39).
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(3:34) Election security in America and challenges of swinging state votes
(8:41) AI-generated video game by Decart and its potential in gaming and entertainment
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(17:07) Viral growth strategy for startups and collaboration between Decart and Etched
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(21:37) NVIDIA's value, financial speculation, and customer concentration
(29:32) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(44:16) Amazon's nuclear power deal and regulatory challenges
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| 0:00.0 | I wasn't aware of the B story, but I think we need to be thoughtful about this because |
| 0:05.4 | this could come back and sting us if we don't stop buzzing around the issue and get to the |
| 0:11.6 | heart of it, which is whatever happens to this specific type of B, could the B be be moved? |
| 0:17.7 | I mean, to be or not to be, that is meta's question. But there's other, |
| 0:22.5 | I knew if we went down the B Avenue, we'd end up here for a long time. Because we were stuck |
| 0:26.8 | in honey. This week in startups is brought to you by Squarespace. Turn your idea into a new |
| 0:34.1 | website. Go to Squarespace.com slash twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, |
| 0:40.2 | use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
| 0:45.9 | Openphone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your |
| 0:50.6 | smartphone or desktop. Twist listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first |
| 0:55.8 | six months at openphone.com slash twist. And lemon.io, hire pre-vetted remote developers. |
| 1:03.5 | Get 15% off your first four weeks of developer time at lemon.com slash twist. All right, everybody, |
| 1:09.9 | welcome back to this week in startups with me again, Alex Wilhelm. |
| 1:14.3 | How is your weekend, sir? |
| 1:16.0 | You know, Jason, uh, my weekend was actually very rough. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm not going to lie. |
| 1:20.3 | Our newborn is going through a period of colic. |
| 1:23.4 | Oh. |
| 1:24.3 | And, uh, yeah. |
| 1:25.8 | So, uh, going to work today has actually been lovely. |
| 1:29.3 | It's been a respite from just. |
| 1:32.5 | For you. |
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