Slow Ventures' Creators Fund and Helion Energy's Fusion Reactors | 2084
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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(0:00) Episode Teaser(1:16) Welcome Alex Wilhelm & Sam Lessin; Slow Ventures Creator Fund(3:49) Significance of the $60M creator-focused fund(5:47) Community-building and product development strategy(7:02) Mr. Beast's success as a case study(9:41) Vanta. Get $1000 off your SOC 2 athttps://www.vanta.com/twist(11:17) Financial structures and strategies in creator investments(14:14) Addressing challenges in creator-focused investing(19:46) Northwest Registered Agent. Form your entire business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. Get more privacy, more options, and more done—visitnorthwestregisteredagent.com/twist today!(22:24) Startups optimizing operations in challenging climates(24:50) Transition to fusion energy and Helion's technology(27:46) Helion's fusion technology and CEO David Kirtley(29:16) Commercial fusion power timeline(29:43) LinkedIn Ads. Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit athttp://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups(32:12) Fusion energy's market potential and agreements(33:39) Comparing fusion to other energy sources(36:10) Safety and environmental considerations for fusion(43:00) Helion's upcoming milestones and team expansion(44:00) Lon Harris on AI, copyright, and fair use(47:00) Exploring fair use and IP infringement in AI(53:00) Market impact and licensing for AI technologies(56:00) Financial implications for AI and copyright(58:00) Distinguishing personal vs. commercial use of copyrighted material
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| 0:00.0 | How do you get Microsoft on board? |
| 0:02.3 | Because this is a paid partnership. |
| 0:04.9 | They're giving you money. |
| 0:06.2 | This isn't like a letter of intent. |
| 0:08.5 | My understanding is they wrote a check. |
| 0:10.5 | They put a deposit down. |
| 0:11.5 | Am I correct? |
| 0:12.5 | So no, this is a power purchase agreement is that they pay as the electrons come off the grid. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay. |
| 0:18.1 | But if we can't meet those timelines, we pay them. |
| 0:21.3 | And so there's penalties. |
| 0:22.5 | You have a dagger over your head dangling. |
| 0:25.0 | I love it. |
| 0:25.7 | That's going to, your sleep score is going to suck. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.0 | There it is. |
| 0:29.7 | Yeah, sleep score is going to go. |
| 0:31.6 | Sleep score is going to be variable. |
| 0:33.5 | 0.91. |
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