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This Week in Startups
When pilots make sense and pricing advice
Jason advises startups to run paid pilots, pick customers, and avoid endless free trials by setting expectations and deployment schedules.
Today’s show:
What is “workslop”? And is it already slowing you down at the office?
On a new This Week in Startups, we’ve got full co-host quorum with JCal, Alex, AND Lon tackling a meaty docket of news at the cross-section of tech, startups, and pop culture.
For starters: A new Harvard/Stanford study suggests that AI isn’t massively improving workplace efficiency because SOME workers aren’t using it properly. Are low-quality, lazily-assembled AI outputs costing US enterprises millions in lost productivity? It’s certainly possible based on these results.
PLUS, why YouTube invited back all those banned creators… a deep-dive into CA’s new social media law that’s dividing tech and civil rights advocacy groups… what we can learn from Stripe’s mega-share buyback… a look at what Polymarket’s sharps think will happen with the US TikTok deal… and much more.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Intro. What will South Park have to say about prediction markets?
(06:06) Alibaba’s new AI model will turn you into any celebrity… can you still believe what you see?
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(21:02) Is CA’s new proposed law a boon for civil rights, or a weapon against free speech?
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(41:24) What is Workslop? And is it costing companies MILLIONS?
(48:42) PolyMarket asks… when will the US TikTok deal go down?
(52:27) Would Jason invest in Tether?
(01:01:29) Why Stripe is buying back so many shares… and what the future may hold.
(01:12:16) Another Reddit Rapid Response: should startups do pilot programs?
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