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20VC: The Pro-Rata Battle: Valar Atomics Sues Day One Ventures | Meta Returns to the AI Frontier With Muse Wonder | NVIDIA Eyes $30B Reflection Deal & Jev Raises $870M at a $7.5B Valuation
AGENDA: 04:00 Valar Atomics Sues Seed Investor Day One Ventures Over Pro Rata 17:00 Meta Returns to the AI Frontier With Muse Wonder 20:00 NVIDIA Eyes $30B Reflection Deal as Amazon Circles Decart 26:00 Jev Raises $870M at a $7.5B Valuation—Weeks After Launch 31:00 42 New Decacorns: The AI Boom Overtakes 2021’s Record 36:00 Isomorphic Labs Eyes $50B Valuation in New Funding Talks 46:00 Anthropic Slashes Haiku Prices by 90% as AI Price War Intensifies 52:00 Bending Spoons Slashes Airtable’s Team: What Do Founders Owe Employees?
California’s Prop 45 aims to speed construction projects. Opponents say data centers will benefit
Supporters of the initiative on the November ballot say it will speed up environmental review for "essential" projects, but opponents believes potentially polluting ones will be covered too — including data centers.
Meta’s new ‘Muse Wonder’ model: good for AI agents, bad for design
Watch now (24 mins) | 🎙️Meta launched Muse Wonder with claims of frontier agentic performance, so I ran it headlessly through Claude Code against nearly 20 tasks to find out if any of it is true
191 Haiven: AI Protection for Young Gamers
Luke & Jen Ritchie sold three companies and built games for Pokémon GO and Barbie. Now these married founders are tackling a darker problem—protecting kids from the predators and bullies lurking in the in-game chat. But will the VCs back Haiven when its business model has yet to be tested?
Disney strikes $20-million deal for Character.ai’s assets as AI startup files for bankruptcy
The AI company has faced lawsuits over child safety and copyright issues involving Disney.
Discovery+ now costs up to $11.99 a month as Skydance takes over
Discovery+ is getting more expensive just a week after Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery became Skydance. Here's what subscribers will pay, and when.
‘Human vs. Robot’ cage match was a hit. State says event was illegal, but organizers aren’t concerned
A human beat two out of three robots, including one inspired by 'Terminator,' during a recent cage match in San Francisco. The California State Athletic Commission says the event shouldn't have happened.
Episode 854 | How to Find Startup Ideas (Sneak Peek Chapter from My New Book)
Where do the best SaaS ideas actually come from? In this episode, Rob reads a chapter from his new book, Idea to Traction: Stop Building SaaS Nobody Wants in the Age of AI. He walks through the five places problems tend to show up, eight strategic approaches for finding and shaping a product idea (with real examples), and when it makes sense to replicate an existing idea.
The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud: https://Plaud.ai/twist Northwest Registered Agent: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain NetSuite: https://netsuite.ai/twist The Conservation Fund: https://conservationfund.org. Today’s show: At packed concerts, festivals, and stadiums, your phone gets WORSE with every person who shows up. Totem gets better. Carter Fowler of Totem joins Alex to explain how his screen-free compass points you straight to your friends without relying on cell towers.
Meta Unveils New Series of Advanced A.I. Models
The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are meant to compete with cutting-edge A.I. models from rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Listen now | 🎙️Alex Cornell explains how Muse serves your mom and an engineer with the same interface, and demos a SkyMall-style catalog, golf recaps, and a blog turned podcast
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League (2023)
In the early 1990’s, Tim League spent $50,000 in savings to lease an abandoned movie theater on the wrong side of the tracks—a shaky experiment that eventually grew into a thriving national chain. As Tim and his wife Karrie built theaters in Austin and beyond, they made a name for themselves by offering dinner with the movie, creative pairings (like sake with Godzilla), and roadshows where movie-goers could watch Deliverance in canoes, or Rocky on the famous steps in Philly.
20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Agents Won't Replace Interfaces | Why Enterprises Won't Trust Chinese Models | Why The Jury Is Still Out On The Benefits of Specialised Models with Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, the company behind Jira, Confluence, Trello and Loom. Atlassian generated $6.5BN in ARR in 2026, and serves more than 350,000 customers, including over 85% of the Fortune 500. Today, Mike is leading its expansion into enterprise AI through Rovo and the Teamwork Graph, connecting company knowledge with AI agents. AGENDA: 03:00 Do AI Agents Turn Traditional Software Into Just Databases? 16:00 Will Enterprises Ever Trust Chinese AI Models?
Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
Listen now (62 mins) | Josh Woodward of Google Labs on where great ideas come from, knowing when to kill them, and building for a world where what’s possible changes every week
Nicolas Cage says he won’t work with Amazon again over AI dispute
Nicolas Cage, who recently starred in "Spider-Noir," said he won't work with Amazon again after a disagreement over an AI waiver.
20Sales: Inside Ramp's Sales Playbook: How to Build a Sales Machine with Max Freeman, SVP Sales @ Ramp
Max Freeman is SVP of Sales at Ramp. He joined the company as its first sales hire. By 2025, he was leading more than 300 salespeople, helping build Ramp’s sales organisation from the ground up. Ramp’s latest reported revenue exceeds $1.7BN, with a valuation of over $40BN. AGENDA: 00:00 Inside Ramp’s Sales Playbook 05:00 How Do You Find Exceptional Sellers—and Why Bankers Make the Best? 18:00 How Do You Build an Outbound Machine That Scales Beyond Your SDR Team? 24:00 How Do You Shorten Sales Cycles Without Slashing Your Price?
Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Lightfield: https://lightfield.app/ Rippling: https://Rippling.ai/twist Upwork: http://upwork.com Today’s show: AssetHub built an AI agent that recreates licensed characters in 3D while respecting copyright rules... But Jason says he needs to think BIGGER. 11 founders pitched their companies to Jason and Yuki Shirato of Techstars Tokyo at our Osaka event this week, and neither investor held back.
White House targets Stanford, Caltech and tech giants in visa crackdown
The White House is expanding its campaign against international workers, targeting elite study and work visa holders with restrictions and a new investigation.
8 GitHub Repos To Go Viral and Make Money
In this solo episode, I walk through eight GitHub repos and AI skills that I test at night and on weekends. The list covers launch videos, social research, local voice and dubbing, editable decks, agent teams, lead-magnet tools, idea stress-testing, and design guidance. For each one, I explain what it does, how I'd set it up, and one concrete way to use it to make money or run a business more easily. Most are free to download, and you pay for the model you run them with. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:25 – Brag: Launch Videos From a Link
Jaan Tallinn would like us to survive
Listen now (67 mins) | An early backer of DeepMind and Anthropic makes the case for an AI pause.
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