TWiST News: Serve Robotics, High Skill Immigration, and the Trump Trade | E2042
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss Serve Robotics’ self-driving robots, delivery economics, and building while public with CEO Ali Kashani. Then, the pair dug into high-skill immigration under the upcoming administration and massive price gains in stocks and crypto assets. Alex wondered if the stock market isn't overvalued, full-stop, but both hosts agreed that enthusiasm is hot heading into the new year.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show (7:27) Serve Robotics' Ali Kashani joins to discuss Serve's latest developments (10:38) Beehiiv - Get 30 days free and 20% off your first 3 months at https://www.beehiiv.com/twist (12:37) Expansion challenges and navigating regulations (20:42) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist (22:19) Business model, future plans, and partnerships (29:14) Cloud Devs - Visit https://www.clouddevs.com/twist for an unbeatable offer on hiring elite Latam talent today. (30:41) Coopetition in the robotics and delivery space (35:16) Autonomous deliveries forecast for 2030 (49:17) High skill immigration and global talent competition (54:19) Leadership styles and labor market shifts (1:07:16) Government's stance on cryptocurrency (1:13:25) Blockchain innovation and tokenizing venture capital
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Mentioned on the show:
https://investors.serverobotics.com/static-files/96eeebc1-712f-46fe-9aee-c1242bddea38
https://www.vebulabs.com/autocado
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-positive-path-forward
https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett-indicator
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/nx-s1-5186522/tom-homan-border-czar-trump
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Website: https://www.serverobotics.com
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| 0:00.0 | So the robots have, you know, the same kind of sensors you have on self-driving cars, like |
| 0:03.6 | LiDAR and cameras and more. |
| 0:06.0 | So they're actually quite smart by themselves. |
| 0:08.5 | The video you just showed, by the way, I should say that was my brand new car being used |
| 0:14.7 | as a test subject. |
| 0:15.7 | So I have a lot of confidence in this. |
| 0:17.4 | This weekend startups is brought to you by Beehive. |
| 0:21.0 | Power your newsletters with AI tools, referral programs, and ad network features, all in one |
| 0:28.0 | platform. |
| 0:29.4 | Get 30 days free and 20% off your first three months at Behive.com slash twist, Vanta. |
| 0:37.2 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for |
| 0:39.9 | startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC2 report fast. |
| 0:46.4 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at Vanta.com slash twist and cloud devs. |
| 0:55.4 | Building the best remote team is tough, but you don't have to do it alone. |
| 1:00.2 | Visit cloud devs.com slash twist for an unbeatable offer on hiring elite Latam talent today. |
| 1:07.7 | All right, everybody. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome back to this week in startups. I'm Jason Kalakanis. And with me, |
| 1:13.2 | my co-host, Alex, Alex, did you have a good restful weekend? How are we doing in Babyland? Tell me. |
| 1:19.1 | I hosted my lovely parents for the weekend, Jason. So while I did mini-family oriented things, |
| 1:25.6 | rest was not one of them. But good news. My soccer team |
| 1:29.8 | won yesterday. So I'm wearing my New York, New Jersey, Gotham shirt because go team. |
| 1:35.2 | Is it male or female soccer? This is female soccer. So it's the National Women's Soccer League. |
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