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This Week in Startups

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Your thrice weekly deep dive into startups, markets, & tech | Hosted by @jason, @alex, and @lons. We're hiring a producer! Apply @ [email protected]!

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Chamath: “Facebook, Tesla, Google… they almost had an allergic reaction to the traditional software stack. They refused to use it.” Find out why he raised a $135M Series A to redefine development, giving every enterprise the opportunity to build and maintain their own software
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"We are not too scared of the distillation that may happen in our model. We would encourage people to distill it if they want to. The places you can get through distillation are always below the places you can get through owning." In a moment when Anthropic's high key stressed
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Fable Returns, GLM-5.2 Shakes Up AI Costs, and the $18B IPO Week
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Fable Returns, GLM-5.2 Shakes Up AI Costs, and the $18B IPO Week
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🚨 We're LIVE Today with @m2jr, Co-Founder of @floodgatefund, which just filed to raise a $130M Fund VIII. Floodgate wrote early checks into Applied Intuition, Last Energy, and Hadrian before anyone else wanted in. Mike's entire career is betting on the company nobody else sees
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Check out the full docket for today's show!
This Week in Startups Docket for July 1, 2026 | Notion
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🚨 We're LIVE Today at 2 PM CT, joined by @aileenlee, Founder/MP of @CowboyVC. Aileen literally coined the term "unicorn," having built her career finding value before everyone else agreed it was there. Q2 just delivered the most $1B+ startup exits since 2021. Is she buying the
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Check out the full docket for today's show!
This Week in Startups Docket for July 1, 2026 | Notion
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🚨 Going LIVE in 1 hour with @BenjLerer, Co-Founder, and Managing Partner of @LererHippeau. Lerer Hippeau just closed a $200M Fund IX last year and backs Zipline, Palmetto, and ZenBusiness. NYC's oldest seed fund is still writing checks like it's 2010! What's changed, and what
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Check out the full docket for today's show!
This Week in Startups Docket for July 1, 2026 | Notion
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This Week in Startups
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Jun 30
Data centers became the symbol of the wealth gap. This is Mark Cuban's solution: People are mad about a small group of people getting rich while they fear job loss. People don't want to feel powerless. Cuban's solution: AI companies should fund programs for impacted people.
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No one has done it in decades. Most see it as a sign not to try. This founder saw it as an opportunity. There hasn't been a successful new US car company since decades. Elon saw the opportunity anyway, and Tesla is now booming. No one has started a successful fighter jet
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Here’s why Chamath takes 8090 sales calls HIMSELF: Salespeople don’t take what the customer says and immediately go change the product. But he can. Customer feedback doesn't get softened or lost in a CRM like it would with a salesperson. Instead, it goes straight into what 8090
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Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure
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This Week in Startups
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Jun 29
Chamath: “Facebook, Tesla, Google… they almost had an allergic reaction to the traditional software stack. They refused to use it.” Find out why he raised a $135M Series A to redefine development, giving every enterprise the opportunity to build and maintain their own software
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When AI covers your basic needs, no one has to struggle. But struggling is how people develop agency and resilience. Remove all obstacles, and you cancel out growth. Chamath argues that kids need real wins and losses, and to carve out their own path, rather than having their
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Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure
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This Week in Startups
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Chamath: “Facebook, Tesla, Google… they almost had an allergic reaction to the traditional software stack. They refused to use it.” Find out why he raised a $135M Series A to redefine development, giving every enterprise the opportunity to build and maintain their own software
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