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This Week in Startups has produced 1,444 episodes. 297 of those episodes have been sponsored by 94 companies. We last recorded an episode on Jul 10, 2026.
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Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310
Jul 10, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by: NetSuite https://NetSuite.ai/TWIST Squarespace https://squarespace.com/twist YSecurity https://YSecurity.io/TWIST Today's show: *America posted 400,000 farm jobs last year, and fewer than 1% got a single domestic applicant. Danny Bernstein of Reservoir believes it's time to start automating this backbreaking labor, like picking stone fruit in 110°F temperatures. So he built the world's first on-farm robotics incubator on 40 acres of California...
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Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market
Jul 8, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by: Digital Ocean - do.co/twist Agree.com - agree.com Every.io - every.io. Today's show: How many startups matter in tech? Fewer than you think. That's why venture capitalists are tripping over themselves to get onto their cap tables, no matter the cost. Why? Footwork's Nikhil Basu Trivedi argues that the Valley has never been more "power-law-pilled" than it is today. Basu Trivedi joined Cendana Capital's Michael Kim and TWiST's Alex Wilhelm to go deep...
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$100T is managed by “human duct tape” | E2308
Jul 6, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Northwest Registered Agent https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twistVanta https://www.vanta.com/twistSentry https://sentry.io/twistToday’s show:*There are $100 trillion in global assets sitting on top of what Hanover Park co-founder/CEO Chris Hladczuk calls “human duct tape”: armies of accountants in offices patching together work from various legacy tools (QuickBooks, Excel) that are holding funds’ own data hostage. Can all of this be replaced with...
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Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307
Jul 1, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:CLA - www.claconnect.com/withyouNorthwest Registered Agent - www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistAgree.com - www.agree.comToday’s show:Forget the triple-triple-double-double-double; the new bar for startups hoping to raise venture capital has reached the stratosphere, though our venture panel is worried that startups are focusing too much on today’s problems that may not become companies tomorrow. During a lively VC roundtable, Cowboy’s Aileen Lee,...
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Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure
Jun 29, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Plaudhttps://Plaud.ai/twistShopifyhttps://shopify.com/twistLinkedIn Jobshttps://LinkedIn.com/twistNorthwest Registered Agenthttps://northwestregisteredagent.com/twistToday’s show:*It’s another All Star Summer, as we welcome back some of our favorite guests from throughout “This Week in Startups” history.Chamath Palihapitiya’s development platform 8090 just raised $135 million, and he’s using it to go after a $4 trillion market: the software...
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Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305
Jun 27, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Plaud - https://Plaud.ai/twistSentry - https://sentry.io/twistNorthwest Registered Agent-https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twistDigitalOcean - https://do.co/twistToday’s show:F1 teams spend up to a third of their budgets on aerodynamics, often utilizing wind tunnels to simulate what happens on the track.But Lyall Davenport of SKN Systems created a sensor-embedded tape that sticks directly to race cars as they drive around the real world, generating...
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Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table
Jun 24, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Deel - deel.com/twistNorthwest Registered Agent - northwestregisteredagent.com/twistLinkedIn - linkedIn.com/twistToday’s show:Jason sits down with Brynn Putnam, CEO and founder of Board, to learn more about her company’s tabletop gaming console. The pair talks about how to raise capital for yet-to-launch hardware projects, the screen-time debate, and how Board is approaching building or buying IP for its family-friendly games. Next, Alex got Heremus’s...
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The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303
Jun 22, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Agree - https://agree.comQuo - https://quo.com/TWiSTSuperhuman - https://superhuman.comToday’s show:In this double-header, Jason and Lon chat with Louis Phillips, founder of the gamified running app INTVL, which turns a quick job around the block into a worldwide turf war competition. Find out how he grew the app to over 1 million downloads without any paid ads, just making videos from his home office.PLUS Alex sits down with Alice Zhang, CEO of Verge...
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Why SpaceX Buying Cursor Changes Everything
Jun 18, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Deel - deel.com/twistLinkedIn - linkedIn.com/twistNorthwest Registered Agent - northwestregisteredagent.com/twistPlaud - https://Plaud.ai/twistToday’s show:Anthropic stabbed Cursor in the back. Then SpaceX swooped in with $60 billion. Today, TWiST connects the dots on the biggest deal in AI since the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, and why it's a warning sign for every startup building on top of a frontier model. Jason is joined by Bling Capital’s Ben...
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The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon…
Jun 15, 2026This Week In Startups is made possible by:Every.io - visit every.ioSentry.io - sentry.io/twistVanta - vanta.com/twistToday’s show:The next SpaceX won't be building rockets; it'll build the first hotel on the Moon. Today on TWiST, GRU Space founder Skyler Chan brings a brick made from lunar soil into the studio and lays out a plan to manufacture on the Moon as early as next year. We get into the science, the business model, and the regulatory land-grab ahead!Then, the US government forces...
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