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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
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Todays show:
True Anomaly’s Even Rogers joins Jason to discuss US competitiveness and innovation space and defense tech (8:53). They also dive into True Anomaly’s innovations (26:41), securing government contracts (31:41), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) True Anomaly’s Even Rogers joins Jason
(4:35) Space innovations and True Anomaly's tech
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(8:53) Space defense, treaties, and infrastructure resilience
(17:01) Space warfare challenges and scenarios
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(23:41) Securing government contracts for space and defense startups
(26:41) True Anomaly’s Jackal deployment
(31:41) Defense contracting: cost-plus vs. fixed price models
(34:19) International sales of defense technology and regulations on defense tech exports
(36:28) DevSquad - Visit https://www.devsquad.com/startups, book a call, and mention TWIST for 10% off!
(37:57) Defense industry's role in capitalism and global politics
(43:19) Taiwan-China conflict and its global impact
(46:49) The major concern with new weapons technology
(50:29) Jam With JCal contest winner Ana Malhotra from Rome joins Jason
(54:24) Jason’s feedback for Rome
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| 0:00.0 | really innovation engine that exists between private capital allocators and government buyers is the source of US competitiveness in a lot of way, just the relationship between financial leverage and operational leverage |
| 0:14.4 | that positive feedback loop can provide is pretty astounding. |
| 0:17.9 | The source of that thesis as a credible thesis for venture investors to engage in, started with Palantir, and then had |
| 0:26.2 | the really picked up a lot of momentum with companies like Andrual that showed that these are worthwhile |
| 0:31.2 | investments to make, and as soon as sort of you can make that argument |
| 0:34.1 | that there is a financial return and that's a meaningful financial return with the venture scale that a lot of investors come out of the woodworks. |
| 0:41.2 | This week in startups is brought to you by |
| 0:44.1 | Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for startups to |
| 0:48.8 | win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. |
| 0:55.0 | Twist listeners can get a thousand dollars off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. |
| 1:02.0 | Dot-tech domains |
| 1:03.0 | don't miss our Jam with J-Cal contest to apply and get more details go to jam with |
| 1:08.4 | jacal dot-tech brought to you by dot- tech domains and Dev Squad help startups design better products. If you |
| 1:18.9 | need UI and uX expertise and don't want to hire an entire design team, head to Dev Squad.com |
| 1:24.9 | slash startups and book a call. |
| 1:27.3 | Mention that you're coming from Twist to get 10% off. |
| 1:30.3 | All right everybody welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 1:33.2 | Over the last couple of years, we've seen a lot of fundraising go to AI. |
| 1:37.1 | Obviously, you're seeing that everywhere. |
| 1:39.2 | And of course, since SpaceX has become such a huge hit, we're seeing a ton of people investing in space-related startups |
| 1:46.0 | in the venture community. |
| 1:47.5 | Finally, in a multipolar world with advanced technology, dare I say, guerrilla tactics affecting the battlefield, |
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