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Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.
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This Week in Startups is brought to you by… Squarespace. Turn your idea into a new website! Go to https://www.Squarespace.com/twist for a free trial. When you’re ready to launch, use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. OpenPhone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or desktop. TWiST listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at http://www.openphone.com/twist Eppo. Experimentation is how generation-defining companies win. Accelerate your experimentation velocity with Eppo. Visit http://www.geteppo.com/twist * Todays show: Jason kicks off Ask Jason live! Six live guests ask questions on key topics, including prioritizing multiple founders (13:28), advice around moat for a startup (52:42), and whether not focusing on AI in a pitch will affect investment chances (1:02:38). * Timestamps: (0:00) Jason kicks off another Ask Jason with 6 live guests! (1:13) Sean asks about investment firms changing how they invest early on. (11:42) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://www.Squarespace.com/twist (13:28) Pierson of jellypod asks about prioritizing multiple founders for investments or accelerators (22:54) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at http://www.openphone.com/twist (24:47) Ann asks if they should raise venture capital to grow faster even though it means giving up some company ownership. (32:01) Eppo. Accelerate your experimentation velocity with Eppo. Visit http://www.geteppo.com/twist (39:56) Francis asks how to strike a balance between skepticism and enthusiasm when evaluating a company for investment, given that it's impossible to invest in every company. (52:42) Hosum asks if explaining their startup's moat as current execution and future benefits after reaching product-market fit is enough to convince investors. (1:02:38) Thom asks if not highlighting AI in our funding pitch will hurt our chances of getting investment. * Send us your questions for the next episode of Ask Jason LIVE! http://www.thisweekinstartups.com/askjason * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (11:42) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://www.Squarespace.com/twist (22:54) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at http://www.openphone.com/twist (32:01) Eppo. Accelerate your experimentation velocity with Eppo. Visit http://www.geteppo.com/twist * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
This Week in Startups is brought to you by… LinkedIn Ads: To redeem a $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, go to http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups Coda: A new doc that brings words, tables and teams together. All your valuable data, plans, objectives, and strategies in one place. Go to https://coda.io/twist to get a $1,000 credit! Wistia is THE all-in-one video platform for business, with tools that help you create, manage, and measure the impact of your videos. Try Wistia for free at http://www.wistia.com/startups * Todays show: Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news and demos, including a new report about AI and Enterprises (12:28), Gatekeep AI (23:34), Deepgram API Playground (39:55), and more! * Timestamps: (0:00) Sunny joins Jason. (4:33) What the resignation of the CEO of Stability AI signifies. (11:01) LinkedIn Ads - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (12:28) Exploring the a16z report about AI and Enterprises. (20:42) Coda - Get a $1,000 startup credit at https://coda.io/twist (23:34) Sunny demoes Gatekeep AI and get surprising results when Jason asks it to explain a “keystone”. (31:27) Wistia - Try Wistia for free at wistia.com/startups. (39:55) Sunny demoes Deepgram API Playground with a fun clip from a young Jason asking Steve Jobs a question. (50:19 ) Sunny demoes the Claude model Haiku from Anthropic with an image from a famous Michael Jordan dunk. * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * LINKS: Report: 16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI: https://a16z.com/generative-ai-enterprise-2024/ Check out Gatekeep AI: https://app.gatekeep.ai/ Check out Deepgram API Playground: https://playground.deepgram.com/ Check out Antrhopic’s Claude Haiku: https://console.anthropic.com/workbench/01fd2f39-ed95-40e1-9d11-c92f1a5ef26f Claude 3 Haiku announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-haikuplayground: Article about Stability AI CEO resigning: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/22/stability-ai-ceo-resigns-because-youre-not-going-to-beat-centralized-ai-with-more-centralized-ai/ * Follow Sunny: X: https://twitter.com/sundeep LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundeepm * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (11:01) LinkedIn Ads - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (20:42) Coda - Get a $1,000 startup credit at https://coda.io/twist (31:27) Wistia - Try Wistia for free at wistia.com/startups. * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
This Week in Startups is brought to you by… Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal-breaker for startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC 2 report fast. TWiST listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at http://www.vanta.com/twist DevSquad. Most dev agencies only offer developers. Why? Because product management is hard. Get an entire product team for the cost of one US developer plus 10% off at http://devsquad.com/twist. Gelt. It’s time to take control over your taxes. Discover how Gelt can help you to manage and optimize both your personal and business taxes. Visit joingelt.com/twist now. * Todays show: David Weisburd hosts Mamoon Hamid, Thomas Scriven, and Jason Calacanis to discuss India’s startup ecosystem (2:36), Carta’s 2018 startup class data (25:45), IPOs in the tech industry (41:18), and much more! * Timestamps: (0:00) David Weisburd intros Mamoon Hamid, Thomas Scriven, and Jason Calacanis (2:36) India’s startup ecosystem (8:16) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist (9:08) Traction and support for Indian startups (17:29) Sovereign wealth funds and their place in the ecosystem today (24:15) DevSquad - Get an entire product team for the cost of one US developer plus 10% off at http://devsquad.com/twist (25:45) Deep dive into Carta’s 2018 startup class data, loss ratios, and investment strategies (40:04) Gelt. It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit https://joingelt.com/twist now. (41:18) The future of M&A and IPOs in the tech industry (49:51) The rise of the secondary market (1:07:09) Rapid-fire segment on recent investments * Mentioned on the show: https://www.harvey.ai https://codeium.com https://www.ambiencehealthcare.com https://www.glean.com https://tolt.io https://www.argyle.build https://www.podengine.ai * Follow Mamoon: X: https://twitter.com/mamoonha LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamoonha Check out: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/ * Follow Thomas: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-scriven-435281/ * Follow David: X: ⁠https://twitter.com/DWeisburd⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dweisburd⁠ Check out: ⁠https://10xcapital.com * Follow Jason: X: ⁠https://twitter.com/jason⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/jason⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (8:16) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist (24:15) DevSquad - Get an entire product team for the cost of one US developer plus 10% off at http://devsquad.com/twist (40:04) Gelt. It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit https://joingelt.com/twist now. * Check out the Launch Accelerator: https://launchaccelerator.co * Check out Founder University: https://www.founder.university * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
This Week in Startups is brought to you by… Eight Sleep. Good sleep is the ultimate game changer. Now you can add the Pod Cover to any mattress! Go to http://www.eightsleep.com/twist to check out the Pod Cover and get $200 off the pod plus free shipping! Squarespace. Turn your idea into a new website! Go to http://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST for a free trial. When you’re ready to launch, use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Gelt. It’s time to take control over your taxes. Discover how Gelt can help you to manage and optimize both your personal and business taxes. Visit http://www.joingelt.com/twist now. * Todays show: Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news and demos, including Microsoft absorbing Inflection AI (1:29), the new song creation model from Suno (13:28), impressive reflection skills from Deepseek VL (45:57), and more! * Timestamps: (0:00) - Sunny joins Jason (1:29) Big news as Microsoft eliminates competitor Inflection AI by gutting their team. (6:23) Is this a new way to not have regulatory scrutiny like in M&A? (8:14) Apple has been busy acquiring AI companies! (9:14) Eight Sleep - Go to https://www.eightsleep.com/twist for $200 off the Pod plus free shipping (13:28) Sunny demos the new model from Suno v3. (15:58) Surprising punk song from Suno with interesting lyrics. (17:52) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://Squarespace.com/twist (19:24) Implications of Suno bringing everyone access to produce their own songs. (25:24) Sunny demos Coral by Cohere. (28:53) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit http://www.joingelt.com/twist  now. (30:08) Diving deeper into fair use regarding the data and content scraped from the internet. (45:57) Sunny demos Deepseek VL. * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * LINKS: Check out Suno v3: https://app.suno.ai/create/ Check out Coral by Cohere: https://dashboard.cohere.com/playground/chat Check out Deepseek VL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-VL-7B 9to5Mac article about Apple buying AI Startups: https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/08/apple-bought-ai-startups/ Tech Crunch Article about Microsoft and Inflection: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/19/after-raising-1-3b-inflection-got-eaten-alive-by-its-biggest-investor-microsoft/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFUxPOXc4AHnjptN6dxkwFgpZ0kvPL_gTJ1uMicNRJwwtbQbuS1P0AI0MbDZzGawLNTArPSTT6VrWbByv-AyGXGWF_mkTdLG6eBSgiTrJPpqyBvY1y-GZoAE4xzQdq9v8ciP0VfQpKcSr-acjKYZEdwlc0XZV2lP6CeOb9I_QqXl Rolling Stone Article about Suno: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/suno-ai-chatgpt-for-music-1234982307/ * Follow Sunny: X: https://twitter.com/sundeep LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundeepm * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (9:14) Eight Sleep - Go to https://www.eightsleep.com/twist for $200 off the Pod plus free shipping (17:52) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://Squarespace.com/twist (28:53) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit http://www.joingelt.com/twist now. * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
This Week in Startups is brought to you by… Miro. Working remotely doesn’t mean you need to feel disconnected from your team. Miro is an online whiteboard that brings teams together - anytime, anywhere. Go to https://miro.com/startups to sign up for a FREE account with unlimited team members. Hubspot YouTube Network. Whether you're a marketer, a sales rep, or an entrepreneur HubSpot has you covered with its tutorials and AI-powered tools. It’s all guaranteed to make your workday easier. Check out  HubSpot’s AI Content Writer and start using HubSpot’s tools for FREE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmJwJF6ppCo https://clickhubspot.com/zu8 Gelt. It’s time to take control over your taxes. Discover how Gelt can help you to manage and optimize both your personal and business taxes. Visit http://joingelt.com/twist now * Todays show: Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode joins Jason to discuss the evolution of early-stage fund managers (3:00), effective portfolio construction (11:18), qualities of high-performing GPs (38:37), and much more! * Timestamps: (00:00) Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode joins Jason (3:00) Early-stage fund managers today, spray and pray vs. concentrated bets, and importance of GP market fit (10:11) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups (11:18) Effective portfolio construction, investing in startups that are creating new sectors, and finding the right fund managers (17:28) Why seed stage investing attracts fewer GPs than series A or B (23:08) Hubspot - Sign up for HubSpot's FREE CRM and get access to the AI Content Writer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmJwJF6ppCo https://clickhubspot.com/zu8 (24:28) Quantity of GPs to invest in and Screendoor’s approach to the DEI landscape (32:22) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit http://joingelt.com/twist now. (33:35) Carry, Fees, and the percentage of a fund that Screendoor targets (38:37) Qualities of high-performing GPs * Check out Screendoor: https://www.screendoor.co * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Follow Jamie: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrcfa/ * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (10:11) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups (23:08) Hubspot - Sign up for HubSpot's FREE CRM and get access to the AI Content Writer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmJwJF6ppCo https://clickhubspot.com/zu8 (32:22) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit http://joingelt.com/twist now. * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
This Week in Startups is brought to you by… OpenPhone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or desktop. TWiST listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at http://www.openphone.com/twist Lemon.io - Hire pre-vetted remote developers, get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist Gelt. It’s time to take control over your taxes. Discover how Gelt can help you to manage and optimize both your personal and business taxes. Visit joingelt.com/twist now. * Todays show: Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason to discuss how his startup is building the future of AI-Powered enterprise search (2:35). The two also discuss Google Gemini (42:45), Open-Source vs Closed models (45:17), and much more! * Timestamps: (00:00) Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason (2:35) Glean’s beachhead market and primary focus (5:13) Glean’s approach to data confidentiality (11:57) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at http://www.openphone.com/twist (13:13) Competition against native tools and building language models in SaaS companies (17:00) Glean’s approach to permissions (24:20) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (25:23) Compliance and the "CEO God Mode" feature (29:28) Potential of productivity software, and people analytics in tech businesses (38:50) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. https://joingelt.com/twist now (40:04) Impact of AI on business models (42:45) Arvind’s thoughts on Google Gemini (45:17) Open source vs closed models in AI development and the progress of OpenAI (47:49) AGI and the limitations and potential of AI as an assistant * Check out: https://cybernews.com/security/chatgpt-samsung-leak-explained-lessons/#google_vignette * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Follow Arvind: X: https://twitter.com/jainarvind LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvind-jain-5935161 * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (11:57) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at http://www.openphone.com/twist (24:20) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (38:50) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit joingelt.com/twist now * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
This Week in Startups is brought to you by… LinkedIn Ads. To redeem a $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, go to http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups Gusto is easy online payroll, benefits, and HR built for modern small businesses. Get three months free when you run your first payroll at Gusto.com/twist. Attio - A radically new CRM for the next era of companies. Head to attio.com/twist to get 15% off for your first year. * Todays show: Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news, including the CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora (5:11), the FIgure AI robot (12:26), Devin, the first AI software engineer (38:17), and more! * Timestamps: (0:00) Sunny joins Jason for a fun AI day! (2:08) Elon and open source Grok vs “Closed” AI. (5:11) The CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora. (9:28) Exploring the fascinating AI robot from Figure. (10:57) LinkedIn Ads - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (12:26) Comparing the FIgure AI robot and what we have seen from Boston Dynamics and why this is impressive. (19:47) Gusto - Get three months free when you run your first payroll at http://www.gusto.com/twist (21:10) Thinking about how humans learn and applying that to AI. (28:28) The idea that robots may one day be 1:1 with humans. (30:50) Attio - Head to http://www.attio.com/twist to get 15% off for your first year. (32:01) New bet alert! And it’s a major one. Sunny and JCal bet on how soon we will all have access to AI robots in our homes! (38:17) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer! (40:24) The “maestro” concept when working with AI. (47:21) Hot news: Apple in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone AI Features. * Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * LINKS: Cognition’s Devin: https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin Figure AI Robot: https://www.figure.ai/ * Follow Sunny: X: https://twitter.com/sundeep LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundeepm * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (10:57) LinkedIn Ads - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (19:47) Gusto - Get three months free when you run your first payroll at http://gusto.com/twist (30:50) Attio - Head to attio.com/twist to get 15% off for your first year. * Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast
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Paja Storec

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Jan 15th
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Bethel chase

im a future creator and inventor and i want be creating anything around trap or hiphop music not even a beat nor tech nothing professor i dont wanna talk about that music

May 23rd
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Bethel chase

what does this have to do with technology first of all anybody like music called trap is an idiot cut that out

May 23rd
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saber fun

very goodf

Jan 16th
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saber fun

very good

Jan 16th
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Maciej Czech

Podcast about startups and technology turned into gossips and smirks, sad

Oct 21st
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Golden boy

Hard left dark cash

Jul 2nd
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Maciej Czech

Amount of ads is offensive, Jason you would never listen to your own show :/

Jun 8th
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Maciej Czech

Why we have to listen to so many ads if you/TWiST doesn't need money as you said here ;(

Apr 30th
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Maciej Czech

Amount of ads is absurd. Specially that he few times said that he tries to avoid ads by paying etc. But we are forced to listen over and over to the same ads.

Feb 20th
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Maciej Czech

This podcast has nothing to do with startups and technology :{

Feb 15th
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Maciej Czech

Jason: I would pay for no ads at YouTube, Twitter etc etc Also Jason: we need ads on Allin TWiST is already so watered down just because they had to squeeze more ads ;( Few months ago he talked about this in podcast which is absurd. It was such a great podcast few years ago :(

Feb 13th
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Reza Sheykhi

Would please enable video feed in Castbox too? I've seen that you've done it for at least one of the episodes here. That'd be very much appreciated.

Feb 13th
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Maciej Czech

You had sucha great podcasts - great guests and real knowledge, timeless interviews. Now it's watered down with news, co-hosts, small talk. 20% of these episodes is just talking about this show. I'm done. Who has time for that?

Dec 31st
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Maciej Czech

Nothing changed in 2021 - disgusting sounds of lips, nose louder than human voice

Dec 24th
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Cristian Concha

Great episode as always. Thanks Jason.

Dec 22nd
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Maciej Czech

Finally real episode like it was always 300 episodes ago. No "OK boomer", other hosts, short term news, talking about this podcast etc.

Dec 22nd
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Maciej Czech

Another co-host, Molly Wood - please noooo, stop watering down this podcast ;( Thank you for improving audio quality again, now it's clear :) But really please slow down with the short term news, co-hosts, "OK boomer" segment etc

Dec 9th
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Noushin Mansouri

I found your podcast by kooshiar

Dec 7th
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Maciej Czech

More episodes and even more commercials :/ Please stop watering this down :/

Oct 2nd
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