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This Week in Startups · 2026-10-24 · 93 min · 18,636 words

OpenAI’s $1.25T Raise, Starlink Mobile & Zuck’s Tax Deal | EP 2354

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All right, everybody, welcome back Friday. Afternoon. I'm in San Francisco. Uh had a great trip. We had uh Lon Launch Accelerator class thirty seven graduating. Oh thirty seven and uh founder university Cohort two.

From Japan. Right. Tokyo. Yeah, Tokyo. And but anybody from Japan can join that just to be clear, it's not just city specific. And so we had thirty graduates from the founding university in Japan. The top ten. as selected by our teams.

Uh got to come to uh an immersion week here in the United States where they did You know, tons of meetings that we set up, met entrepreneurs, met venture capital firms, and just explored and got to really soak in San Francisco. So I'm having a little graduation dim sum with them this afternoon here on a Friday, October twenty third. Yeah, great dim sum place. I love uh Yang Singh. Yang Singh. Get the duck. Um Get the soup dumplings. Then the Launch Accelerator class graduated and we did uh something new for them.

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