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This Week in Startups · 2026-06-08 · 60 min · 11,227 words

The AI Tutor That Makes Kids Actually Think | E2298

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Lot of VCs behaving badly stories trending all week. Matthew Prince from Cloudflare, I think started this all off. I keep presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair. Oh, I was on the other side of the table raising money myself. I'll give you a couple stories.

This other mother begs a friend of mine to give him the meeting. I'm finding out that the meeting's been canceled, that instead of just letting me pitch, you're so dumb that you would cancel on me when you knew I was flying up from Los Angeles. You're going to be the worst venture capitalist of all time. This week in startups is brought to you by Shopify. Turn those what-ifs into sales with the e-commerce platform powering millions of businesses.

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