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This Week in Startups · 2025-10-18 · 78 min · 14,944 words

Deel's growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great "momentum is moat" debate | E2194

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But there's been like a little chaos. I can tell when the market is hot because people start acting strange. We are in or we're entering into peak market right now. And one of the things that happens in a peak market is people's morals, ethics, sharp elbows on all sides of the tables. You know, management teams to their founders, founders to their management teams, founders to their VCs, VCs to their founders, lawyers, everything.

Everybody is getting a little chippy and arguing over things that don't matter, that aren't company building, but there's so much money in the system sloshing around. That I'm getting pulled into all kinds of chaos all of a sudden. This Week in Startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Ads. Start converting your B2B audience into high-quality leads today. We'll even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign.

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