This Week in Startups Jason Calacanis

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Today’s show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo Figma FigJam (2:08), a product that generates images from real-time drawing (31:05), and more while discussing the implications of IP theft writ large.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:08) Sunny demos Figma’s FigJam

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(10:40) Figma FigJam demo continued

(16:02) Jason shares his AI generated images and discusses how companies navigate copyright issues

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(26:12) Feedback and thoughts for FigJam

(31:05) Sunny demos Fal, an AI that gives generated images from real time drawing

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(41:49) Sunny demos the Real-Time Latent Consistency Model

(47:01) Sunny demos Alibaba’s Animate Anyone

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Check out Animate Anyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCn5hLKNu4

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Today’s show:

DHH joins Jason to discuss a post-SaaS world and Once.com (2:29), the evolving landscape of remote work (21:31), navigating internal culture struggles at Basecamp (32:53), and much more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) DHH joins Jason

(2:29) David discusses his new SaaS alternative Once.com, which charges a one-time fee rather than a recurring subscription

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(11:50) David's philosophy on copyrighting

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(21:31) The evolving landscape of remote work

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(32:53) The state of fundraising and DHH recounts Basecamp's internal culture struggles

(49:03) Should AI progress should be accelerated or slowed down?

(1:08:08) How willful exposure to hardship can build grit and resilience.

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Today’s show:

Adept Co-Founder and CEO David Luan joins Jason to discuss his experience at OpenAI (2:45), demo Adept's AI-powered workflow builder (13:47), what facets of AI he is most excited about, what keeps him motivated (32:33), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Adept founder and CEO David Luan joins Jason.

(2:45) David's experience at OpenAI and the evolution of deep learning

(5:22) DALL-E origins and its "a-ha moment"

(9:24) The next great well of AI training data

(11:21) Brave - Try the Brave Search API at http://www.brave.com/jason

(12:35) Adept's Northstar since day one

(13:47) Demos: showcasing the power of Adept AI

(15:52) The next battlefield for AI

(18:34) A look into Adept AI Experiments – a sandbox for AI enthusiasts

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(21:51) How Adept aims to streamline job processes

(24:54) Strategies to outperform large competitors

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(32:33) What excites David about the future and motivates his daily efforts?

(36:29) The present and expected advancements in AI

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Today’s show:

Induced AI CEO Aryan Sharma joins Jason to discuss the motivation behind Induced AI (3:20), how the product is being integrated into real-world applications (16:42), strategies for mitigating bad actors (32:16), and more!

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Induced AI CEO Aryan Sharma joins Jason

(3:20) The motivation behind Induced AI

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(11:24) The role of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and integration of LLMs

(16:42) Aryan demos Induced AI’s WorkFlow

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(29:31) The impact on business processing outsourcing

(32:16) Strategies for mitigating bad actors

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(44:17) Journey to Induced AI

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Links:

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/shi17a/shi17a.pdfhttps://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/process-automation/what-is-rpa.html

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Today’s show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo Bard’s YouTube summarizer (2:27), an iPhone app that draws apps (41:14), Stability’s Clipdrop (59:20), and much more!

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:27) Sunny demos Bard’s YouTube summarizer

(7:00) Jason's revamping his Substack! First topic; Jason's new ADD management framework: Automate, Deprecate, Delegate

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(29:09) Sunny demos tlDraw and discusses the evolution of low-code environments

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(41:14) Sunny showcases UIDraw, an app to draw and build a web app on your phone with AI

(46:57) Sunny demos Trace, a tool to design a UI via AI

(53:38) Sunny demos Runway TV

(59:20) Sunny demos Stability’s image editing tools, including Clipdrop

(1:05:18) Jason and Sunny’s AI predictions and bet

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Links:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-story-of-pong-excerpt/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Scelsastabilityhttps://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1728848624048853442?s=42&t=79J_alIF_jrz1wn1s5pboQclipdrop

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https://www.trace.zip/https://www.runway.tv/https://makereal.tldraw.com/

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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland

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Today’s show:

Sunny Madra and David Sacks join Jason to break down all the chaos of the past few days at OpenAI including why the situation is so unprecedented (17:46), the board’s failure (30:18), the impact on startups (43:34), and much more!

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Recapping the chaotic past few days at OpenAI plus some immediate impacts from the fallout

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(17:46) David Sacks joins the show and explains why this situation is so unprecedented in Silicon Valley

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(30:18) How the board could have handled this better, Sam Altman's misaligned incentives packages (or lack thereof)

(37:14) Silicon Valley's battle-tested standard structure, and why you shouldn't innovate on corporate structure

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(43:34) Impact on startups reliant on OpenAI's models, a brutal momentum killer for OpenAI

(50:39) Predictions: Return of the King? Mass Exodus? Something else?

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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland

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