Episode · This Week in Startups · 2025-05-21
Books mentioned on Jony Ive Joins OpenAI, Waymo Hits 10M Rides, and How to Launch a Marketplace from Scratch | E2129
Today's show: Jason and Alex dicsuss Jony Ive's $6.5B deal with OpenAI and what it means for the future of AI hardware, Tesla's push into robotaxis vs.
Jason Calacanis discussed Dilbert Gives You the Business by Scott Adams.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dilbert Gives You the Business
Dilbert Gives You the Business by Scott Adams is a comic strip collection that lampoons corporate culture, management styles, and workplace absurdities through the adventures of the engineer Dilbert.
Discussed“I had like like a stack of like the compendiums. And I I learned words like paradigm from him because I thought it was pronounced paradigm cuz I'd never said it out loud.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Thinking in Bets
“Well, I mean, the the really interesting thing I think about this is you're you're making some sort of a bet, and if you think in bets as um Annie Duke would say in the poker world, thinking in bets is her book.”