Twilio Bets Small, DeepSeek Scares & the GameOn Fraud | E2076
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Today’s show: Jason and Alex cover Twilio’s team size compression, DeepSeek’s scary good AI for only $6M and the GameOn fraud saga that sounds too crazy to be true.
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(0:00) Alex and Jason kick off the show (6:27) Rundown of potential topics (7:10) Twilio's team size strategy and AI's impact on workforce
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| 0:00.0 | So meta has a plan to build a data center that's so large. |
| 0:03.4 | It actually comes with its own map. |
| 0:04.7 | So I don't know if you saw it's on threads, |
| 0:06.3 | but here is Mark Zuckerberg showing a superimposition, |
| 0:10.2 | his future two gigawatt data center on top of the Manhattan map. |
| 0:17.0 | And Jason, just for folks out there, |
| 0:18.7 | how much of Manhattan do you think this is covering? |
| 0:20.7 | 35, 40%. Yes, yeah. I mean, it's all of Central Park. It's, yeah, it's giant. It's going from |
| 0:28.4 | 120th street down to 34th maybe. I mean, this is gigantic. |
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