Jason Calacanis

This Week in Startups

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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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Jason Calacanis

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E1144: How Income Share Agreements (ISAs) are solving education financing & aligning incentives in a broken system with Meratas CEO Darius Goldman | Rising Stars of SaaS 7 25.11.2020 1:03:08

Check out Meratas: https://www.meratas.com FOLLOW Meratas: https://twitter.com/meratas FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

All-In E13: SPACsgiving Special! Plus: More promising vaccine news, innovation vs. regulation, reforming higher ed, morality of challenge trials 25.11.2020 43:54

Negotiating a Term Sheet: Deal killers, what terms are worth fighting for & more with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics 24.11.2020 22:43

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E1143: Indie Hackers Founder Courtland Allen is creating a community for the next generation of builders to chase the "new American Dream" 23.11.2020 1:25:11

Check out Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com FOLLOW Courtland: https://twitter.com/csallen FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 16th, 2020 21.11.2020 18:42

E1139 featuring Loop's Brian Gannon: https://rb.gy/6cgsyn E1140 featuring Dishcraft Robotics' Linda Pouliot: https://rb.gy/17iftk E1141 featuring CircleUp's Ryan Caldbeck: https://rb.gy/9mntnq E1142 Emergency Pod!: https://rb.gy/mmmn7d

E1142: Emergency Pod! Jason breaks down & ranks his top 4 IPO candidates: Airbnb, Affirm, Robinhood & Roblox! 21.11.2020 28:09

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E1141: CircleUp's Ryan Caldbeck on the mental & physical toll of being a founder, why he stepped down as CEO & shared his struggle publicly 20.11.2020 59:33

Read Ryan's Medium post: https://rb.gy/zep70h Check out CircleUp: https://circleup.com FOLLOW Ryan: https://twitter.com/ryan_caldbeck FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

Avoiding Co-Founder legal disputes & C-Corp vs. LLC with Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics 20.11.2020 22:48

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E1140: Dishcraft Robotics CEO Linda Pouliot on scaling Robots-as-a-Service | Rising Stars of SaaS 6 19.11.2020 50:24

Check out Dishcraft Robotics: https://dishcraft.com FOLLOW Linda: https://twitter.com/TheRoboLinda FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1139: Loop CEO Brian Gannon shares secrets to scaling a hardware startup & launching the Loop 2 + bonus Ask Jason! 18.11.2020 49:44

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Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 9th, 2020 14.11.2020 19:14

E1136 featuring SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce: https://rb.gy/pndfna E1137 featuring Repl.it's Amjad Masad: https://rb.gy/ypwjd2 E1138 Ask Jason!: https://rb.gy/hzsutw Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1138: Ask Jason! Benefits to growing a company internationally, Apple's new chip impact, investing in solo founders & more! 13.11.2020 52:58

To be featured on a future Ask Jason episode, email your video question to askjason@launch.co FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1137: Making coding accessible for all with Repl.it CEO Amjad Masad | Rising Stars of SaaS 5 11.11.2020 57:59

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All-ln E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more 11.11.2020 43:11

E1136: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on evolving accreditation laws, SPACs, importance of capital markets in wealth creation, spotting fraud & more 10.11.2020 1:09:02

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Best of This Week in Startups: Week of November 2nd, 2020 07.11.2020 18:38

E1133 featuring podcasting pioneer Dave Winer: https://rb.gy/pwpmiy E1134 featuring ChowNow's Chris Webb: https://rb.gy/ioevs2 E1135 featuring Density's Andrew Farah: https://rb.gy/julse0 Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1135: Density CEO Andrew Farah on launching the Open Area sensor, $51M Series C, impact of increasing spatial efficiency, risk-taking & more 06.11.2020 1:31:46

Check out Density: https://density.io FOLLOW Andrew: https://twitter.com/andrewfarah FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1134: Deep dive on the food delivery wars with ChowNow CEO Chris Webb | Rising Stars of SaaS 4 05.11.2020 1:14:12

Check out ChowNow: https://chownow.com FOLLOW Chris: https://twitter.com/chrischownow FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

All-In E11: Election Night Special featuring surprise guests! 04.11.2020 1:18:52

Follow the crew: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Follow the bestie guesties: https://twitter.com/bgurley https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth https://twitter.com/altcap https://twitter.com/jcpolls

E1133: Podcast & blogging pioneer Dave Winer on inventing new forms of media, tribalism on social media, tales from Silicon Valley's Golden Age & more 03.11.2020 1:15:27

Check out Scripting News: http://scripting.com FOLLOW Dave: https://twitter.com/davewiner FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 26th, 2020 31.10.2020 27:46

E1130 featuring Billion Dollar Loser author Reeves Wiedeman: https://rb.gy/o9oplx E1131 featuring Squire's Songe LaRon: https://rb.gy/vzyrwc E1132's News Roundtable featuring Acquired FM: https://rb.gy/ryvuvd Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1132: News! Jack Dorsey vs. Ted Cruz, Google's antitrust lawsuit, Expensify email, Amazon deep dive & much more with Acquired's Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal 30.10.2020 1:44:55

Check out Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm FOLLOW Ben: https://twitter.com/gilbert FOLLOW David: https://twitter.com/djrosent FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1131 Bringing barbershops into the digital age with Squire CEO Songe LaRon | Rising Stars of SaaS 3 29.10.2020 50:11

Check out Squire: https://getsquire.com FOLLOW Songe: https://twitter.com/songelaron FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

E1130: "Billion Dollar Loser" Author Reeves Wiedeman on WeWork's epic rise & crazy collapse, Adam Neumann's unique behavior, hypocrisy, red flags & more 27.10.2020 1:13:25

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Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 19th, 2020 24.10.2020 33:26

E1126 featuring Capital Allocators' Ted Seides: https://rb.gy/bsiinm E1127 featuring Transcend's Ben Brook: https://rb.gy/txkmav E1128 Emergency Pod - Quibi postmortem: https://rb.gy/boh8gv E1129 featuring Ring's Jamie Siminoff: https://rb.gy/3okxvb Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis