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This Week in Startups

WeRide IPO, Polymarket + Perplexity, the Trump Bump and more! | E1992

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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This Week in Startups is brought to you by…

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Todays show:

Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss the evolution of startup costs and media aggregation (3:17), media's addiction to Trump coverage (13:46), Polymarket and Perplexity partnership (40:08), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show

(3:17) Evolution of startup costs and media aggregation (7:47) Jason and Alex discuss Trump and Elon conversation (10:09) Google Cloud - Accelerate your startup journey with the Google for Startups Cloud Program. Apply at https://startups.google.com/twist (13:46) Media's addiction to Trump coverage

(20:04) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist (21:18) Trump's media strategies and speech analysis

(30:04) AssemblyAI - Get 100 free hours to start building at https://www.assemblyai.com/twist (31:17) Societal resistance to tech and the rise of self-driving cars (37:14) Self-driving technology's impact on Uber and Lyft (40:08) Polymarket and Perplexity partnership (47:34) Hacking capitalism and the FIRE movement (54:12) Perplexity's AI competition and the value of proprietary data (1:00:45) Reddit's traffic and monetization (1:07:35) European venture capital and the rise of unicorns (1:13:00) Work culture: Europe vs. US (1:16:11) Investing in AI startups and consulting opportunities

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Thank you to our partners:

(10:09) Google Cloud - Accelerate your startup journey with the Google for Startups Cloud Program. Apply at https://startups.google.com/twist

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(30:04) AssemblyAI - Get 100 free hours to start building at https://www.assemblyai.com/twist

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Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If they do but one bump of Trump, they will become addicted.

0:05.0

But one Trump of Bump.

0:06.6

Now, if you think about the Trump bump and doing Trump bumps,

0:11.8

what happens is it rewires your brain.

0:14.4

It creates a sense of euphoric.

0:16.6

Now, it'll create a hangover the next day and you will feel brutalized.

0:21.3

But what happens after this bump is your ratings go up and it's going to lean

0:25.8

your coverage to positive because you want more Trump bumps and he brings the bumps you know he comes you know there's

0:34.0

gonna be five bumps per you know every half hour are you gonna be doing 10

0:38.2

bumps an hour it's pretty intense you know like this is gonna make Keith Richards and Kate Moss jealous like this is a lot of bumps

0:44.8

Elton John is going whoa.

0:47.5

This weekend startups is brought to you by Google for startups accelerate your

0:52.2

startup journey with the Google for startups cloud program

0:55.2

get up to 200 k in Google Cloud credits or up to 350 k for AI startups plus training and guidance

1:02.1

apply at startups

1:03.4

Google.com slash twist vanta compliance and security shouldn't be a

1:08.6

deal breaker for startups to win new business vanta makes it easy for companies

1:13.4

to get a sock to report fast.

1:15.6

Twist listeners can get $1,000 off

1:17.8

for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist.

1:21.4

And Assembly AI. get maximum value from voice data with Assembly AI

1:26.4

build powerful products and features for your end users on the industry's

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