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This Week in Startups is a startups podcast hosted by Jason Calacanis with 1441 episodes. Your strongest route into This Week in Startups starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
This Week in Startups is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What This Week in Startups is about
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.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- a few times a week
- Latest episode
- Jul 15, 2026
- Catalogue
- 1441 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312
- Jason turned $11 and one tweet into 1.1M views | E2311
- Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310
- Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market
- $100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-07-16.
3 show-specific steps to pitch This Week in Startups
- 1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of This Week in Startups, which publishes a few times a week, currently “A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312”. Listen for how Jason frames the conversation, then make your angle fit This Week in Startups.
- 2
Send it to the address This Week in Startups publishes
This Week in Startups's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print This Week in Startups's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for This Week in Startups in your mail app; we never send it. Get the address for This Week in Startups.
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Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want early-stage specifics: fundraising, product bets, and go-to-market experiments others can learn from. Open with one sentence on why you fit This Week in Startups and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for This Week in Startups, then grade the draft against This Week in Startups.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. This Week in Startups is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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