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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.

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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: Aug 21, 2026
Catalogue: 1441 episodes

Recent episodes

Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.

Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328Aug 21, 2026
Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI BasicsAug 20, 2026
Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327Aug 19, 2026
Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326Aug 17, 2026
What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325Aug 15, 2026

Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.

3 show-specific steps to pitch This Week in Startups

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Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of This Week in Startups, which publishes a few times a week, currently “Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328”. Listen for how Jason frames the conversation, then make your angle fit This Week in Startups.
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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. This Week in Startups's own site is thisweekinstartups.com, so a booking or about link would be there, and that route needs no account. Get the address for This Week in Startups. Open thisweekinstartups.com.
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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.

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