2024 TWISTY Awards | E2066
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Todays show: The 2024 TWISTY Awards are here! Jason and Alex look back at the year and dole out awards for Best CEO, Bag Securer of the Year, and more; plus a look back at the best TWIST moments.
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the episode (1:36) Twisty Awards 2024 Overview (2:06) Breakout Startup of the Year Nominations and Winner (5:53) Pre IPO Startup of the Year Nominations and Winner (10:03) Squarespace. TWiST listeners: use code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain: https://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST (15:06) Main Character of the Year Nominations and Winner (19:10) Bag Secure of the Year Nominations and Winner
(20:07) OpenPhone. TWiST listeners can get 20% off your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist (22:05) CEO of the Year Discussion (not Elon Musk) (24:43) Twist Interview of the Year Highlight (29:34) Notion: TWiST listeners can try it for free at https://notion.com/twist (31:07) Best Venture Capital Guest Feature (33:32) Defunct Startup of the Year Category (35:46) News Topic of the Year Debate (43:00) Best Tech Product of the Year Nominations (45:07) Funniest Twist Moment of the Year (48:05) Episode of the Year
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| 0:00.0 | And Bench. Oh, my God. That just happened last week, and that's a big blowout. And they did it in spectacular fashion by screwing over all of their customers, apparently, allegedly, according to reports. I've got to put all these caveats in here, so I don't create another Palmer Lucky situation. But if that's true, I got to give it to bench because, my God, what a flame out. |
| 0:22.4 | And InVision, what a great product that was. |
| 0:24.4 | Everybody loved it. |
| 0:26.0 | They were up against Figma. |
| 0:27.0 | They were up against Adobe. |
| 0:28.1 | Really hard to make it work. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm not sure exactly how that one went out. |
| 0:31.5 | But I got to give it to bench, man. |
| 0:33.7 | Man, man, they just blew up in spectacular fashion this past week. At the end of the year, people doing their taxes. |
| 0:40.0 | Taxes. |
| 0:40.6 | God, damn it. |
| 0:41.4 | End of the year. |
| 0:42.3 | Bookkeeping company went up in flames. |
| 0:44.2 | And then the founder went on like a tweet storm about his ousting. |
| 0:48.4 | And now people are trying to figure out which VC took him for the death walk. |
| 0:51.4 | Somebody took him for Afraid a walk. |
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| 1:05.8 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
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