Databricks' Record Raise, TikTok goes to the Supreme Court, and all about the Grammarly-Coda Deal | E2063
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex and Jason discuss Databricks’ record raise, TikTok’s big day at the Supreme Court, Shishir Mehrotra on the Coda-Grammarly merger, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show (3:38) Insights on Databricks' private fundraise and venture capital trends (8:37) Predictions on unlimited free energy, water, and food
(9:41) Coda - Empower your startup with Coda’s Team plan for free—get 6 months at https://www.Coda.io/twist (14:25) The declining costs of cloud computing (17:12) Evaluating growth rate for startup valuations (19:46) Competitive landscape: Databricks vs. Snowflake
(20:48) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist 22:07 The strategic importance of selecting the right customers 26:34 Venture capital communication and the ghosting phenomenon 28:43 TikTok's ongoing legal challenges
(31:25) Gusto - Get three months free when you run your first payroll at http://gusto.com/twist (32:33) Shashir Mehrotra on the Coda-Grammarly merger (37:16) Vision and applications of the Coda-Grammarly partnership (42:35) Future of AI agents and Grammarly's role (45:13) SaaS industry dynamics and AI's role in upselling (49:10) The impact of AI on job automation and workforce productivity (54:40) Team sizes and AI-driven productivity debate (57:18) The future interaction with AI agents (1:00:40) Efficiency gains from combining Grammarly and Coda (1:02:02) The role of ChatGPT and AI in social media (1:03:46) Tailoring AI tools for business needs (1:06:26) Lessons from mergers and acquisitions in the tech sector (1:08:08) Strategic acquisitions and their importance in the tech industry
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| 0:00.0 | You're always trying to upsell me on AI. |
| 0:02.5 | Stop with this upselling. |
| 0:04.4 | Just put the best out there for everybody. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm like, oh, my God, I got to pay another $2,000 a year, |
| 0:09.5 | Grammali or Cota or Notion or whoever wants this upsell on AI. |
| 0:13.6 | Just include it. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:15.9 | Can you fix the entire SaaS industry for Jason? |
| 0:18.2 | Please. |
| 0:18.9 | Just go talk to everybody. |
| 0:20.3 | It's enough with the upselling on the AI. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm going to start with your two favorite products and then I'll work from there. |
| 0:25.6 | Are you going to do that? |
| 0:26.4 | Will you promise me right now? |
| 0:27.5 | We'll stop with the two different. |
| 0:29.5 | Well, I just need a non-AI ghetto and then the AI elites. |
| 0:36.2 | This week in startups is brought to you by Coda. Coda empowers your startup by bringing words, |
| 0:42.5 | tables, and teams together. Strategize, plan, and track goals effectively with all your valuable |
| 0:47.8 | data in one place. Go to coda.io slash twist to get started for free and get six free months |
| 0:53.9 | of the team plan. Lemon.io, hire to get started for free and get six free months of the team plan. |
| 0:55.7 | Lemon.io, hire pre-vetted remote developers and get 15% off your first four weeks of developer |
| 1:01.6 | time at lemon.io slash twist. And gusto. Gusto is easy online payroll, benefits, and |
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