Profound, Resistant AI & OpenAI’s Economic Pitch | E2071
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today’s show: Alex covers Mark Zuckerberg’s Joe Rogan interview, OpenAI’s economic pitch and the pending IPO of India’s Groww. Our guests include two companies freshly added to the TWIST500: James Cadwallader from Profound and Martin Rehak from Resistant AI.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Alex kicks off the show! (2:51) A look at key moments from this week’s Mark Zuckerberg interview on Rogan. (8:08) James Cadwallader, Co-Founder and CEO of Profound join Alex. (10:05) Northwest Registered Agent. For just $39 plus state fees, Northwest will handle your complete business identity. Visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist today. (11:23) Comparing Profound’s approach to SEO and looking and how problemism impacts search.
(20:21) Paddle. Go to https://www.paddle.com/twist to get started with your exclusive listener fee-free period. (24:48) Building Profound in NYC, business model, and managing LLM costs (30:51) Squarespace. TWiST listeners: use code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain: https://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST (32:15) Introduction to Resistant AI's mission and building an AI startup (34:18) Resistant AI's approach to fraud detection and criminal techniques evolution (41:17) Shift in the landscape of digital threats and security solutions ROI (51:39) Synthetic fraud detection demonstration and business growth (58:01) The Biden administration's AI diffusion plan and OpenAI's policy recommendations (1:04:25) Groww: India's largest retail stock broker and tech IPO landscape
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to this week in startups. My name is Alex. I'm Alex over on X, |
| 0:05.5 | and I'm also on LinkedIn and all those other fine places. And today on the program, we have a |
| 0:10.1 | quick look at the two segments from Mark Zuckerberg's interview over the weekend that you |
| 0:14.2 | absolutely must need to know. We have two founders of Twist 500 companies on the podcast today, |
| 0:20.0 | profound and resistant AI. Then we're going |
| 0:23.2 | to talk a little bit about the Biden Chips Rule and what Open AI is saying about future |
| 0:27.4 | AI development here in the U.S. And if time allows, we'll do it just a little bit at the end |
| 0:32.4 | about the Indian IPO market and how one company could help kick open the 2025 IPO calendar. |
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