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This Week in Startups

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This Week in Startups

@twistartups

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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This Week in Startups
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Jun 18
Sam Altman walked into YC, offering founders $1M in free tokens for a slice of equity. Jason's advice: run. OpenAI is watching your token usage, ranking the winners, then shipping the top 5 as native features. Get off the frontier models, use open source, and own your data.
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Why the Government is Blocking OpenAI’s Best Models
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Why the Government is Blocking OpenAI’s Best Models
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Today the Bay Area. Tomorrow Mars? Many startups are racing to get us to the moon. But our destiny is Mars. The moon is simply a stepping stone. We need to build the infrastructure on the moon first. We can't be dependent on Earth, if we want to get to Mars. There will be
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Today on TWiST, we're joined by @Lyalldavenport, founder & CEO of SKN Systems. The days of using wind tunnels for aerodynamics testing are over. SKN replaces wind tunnels with sensor tape you stick on a car. Stick the tape on a car, and take it for a spin. This collects
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This Week in Startups Docket for June 26, 2026 | Notion
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Board games meet video games. Just one screen for all players. Board is the first face-to-face gaming console. The days of every player staring at their own screen are over. You can control the 24-inch touchscreen with game pieces that unlock hundreds of games. No more buying
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NASA sends 3.5 tons of cargo to the ISS every 60-90 days. So highly trained scientist/astronauts spend 14 out of every 16 duty-cycle days moving things around. Ethan Barajas of Icarus Robotics says "it's kind of ridiculous that they do this," so his company built a robot to fix
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Watch the full Physical AI panel on @ThisWeeknAI Episode 19, live now on X, YouTube, and podcast platforms:
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Jun 25
"Free" tokens are not free. They're a trap. Microsoft and Facebook did it before: Offer you space to build your product. Then steal it and make it better. These companies don't invest in you. They study you, your product and your customers. Then they make it better themselves.
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Jun 25
"A lot of what built the technology industry is people being like, 'Oh my god, I can build something ridiculous in my garage, and it's really, really cool.' I think that soul is valuable." -- @jeffrey_hawke of @odysseyml joins our Physical AI panel on this week's brand new
This Week in AI
@ThisWeeknAI
Jun 25
Physical AI is already eating the world… but it’s probably still years away from having a “GPT-3 moment.” For a special TWiAI roundtable, we’ve gathered the founders, CEOs, and CTOs of three of our favorite Physical AI companies to talk about the hardest challenges, why LLMs
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Jun 25
Catch @AJ_Piplica on @twistartups with @alex talking how we’re rewriting the decades-old development playbook through rapid aircraft iteration and smart risk-taking. Full episode here and on Spotify:
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Jun 24
The last company to start building US fighter jets from scratch showed up in the 1950s… General Dynamics. Since then? Nobody. Everyone treats that as proof for why it CAN’T be done. Hermeus co-founder, @AJ_Piplica thinks the opposite. It's the same bet Thiel made on SpaceX, he
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Jun 25
Logo hunting is peacocking. And the prize is losing credibility. Giving big players in the industry your product for free isn't the social proof you want. Sophisticated investors see through it. They want to know the hard facts: active users, actual revenue. Getting Google on
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Jun 25
This Week in AI this week: 🤖 Boris Sofman (Bedrock, $270M) on autonomous construction equipment 🌎 Jeff Hawke (Odyssey, $310M) on world models 🌕 Ethan Barajas (Icarus) on robots headed to the ISS The best Physical AI panel we've ever done, coming up later today on our sister
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Jun 25
"Today in construction there's an astronomical shortage because it's been systematically under-invested in. Now demand is skyrocketing because of infrastructure, data centers, manufacturing." "You start seeing housing prices go up. You have a world that is fundamentally
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An experts-only AI podcast, hosted by Jason Calacanis Presented by PayPal Open: One Platform for All Business What to expect: - Roundtables: Think the All In Podcast for AI. Jason + 3 CEO-level...
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The last company to start building US fighter jets from scratch showed up in the 1950s… General Dynamics. Since then? Nobody. Everyone treats that as proof for why it CAN’T be done. Hermeus co-founder, @AJ_Piplica thinks the opposite. It's the same bet Thiel made on SpaceX, he
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Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table
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Jun 24
In a brand new episode of TWiST, @Jason sits down with @BrynnPutnam to discuss her startup, @boardisfun, her learnings from building Mirror to a $500M exit, and how her new family gaming startup is taking on the screen time epidemic. Then, @alex interviews @AJ_Piplica of
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Jun 24
This is one of the cleanest tech demos you’ll see today. A toy. No batteries, chips, or wires inside, just a piece of plastic placed on a touchscreen. The screen instantly tracks exactly what it is, which way it's facing, and what it's doing in real-time. @BrynnPutnam ‘s new
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Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table
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This Week in Startups
@twistartups
Jun 24
In a brand new episode of TWiST, @Jason sits down with @BrynnPutnam to discuss her startup, @boardisfun, her learnings from building Mirror to a $500M exit, and how her new family gaming startup is taking on the screen time epidemic. Then, @alex interviews @AJ_Piplica of
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