This Week in Startups
00:49:33 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:49:33] S2: Right. [00:49:34] S0: For this outside of, like, Windows and the Spark stuff from NVIDIA. And and NVIDIA and Windows are working on that together, Jensen and Satya Nadella. So there's there's a chance, that they are just gonna give everybody a $20,000 Mac Studio for their desktop. I'm sure they're all on Mac Studios and top MacBooks anyway with Apple's products. [00:49:55] S2: Maybe. [00:49:55] S0: So they can run local models. [00:49:57] S2: I mean [00:49:57] S0: They'll be the first to be running local. [00:49:58] S2: That actually makes total sense to me for Apple just to be model agnostic. Like, we we have the platform and the apps, and then you could choose what version of it you wanna run, you know, and Claude through the cloud or run, you know, something through a llama directly on your on your device, whatever. That makes sense to me. [00:50:17] S0: Did you see MacBook release... Speaking of Apple, they released the ProLED XDR display. No. So they say it's gorgeous screen, and then you're gonna be able... It's gonna be a touchscreen apparently. Oh, wow. I believe that's the one that's the touchscreen. It's It does look like touchscreen. Expensive. [00:50:35] S2: It is a touchscreen. [00:50:37] S0: It's crazy. Right? And so, like Wow. I I don't know who needs this. [00:50:40] S2: How much is it to get shorter? [00:50:42] S0: Oh, just put it on the max. 16? Go put it on 16. Boom. You're at 3,400. Click 16. [00:50:48] S2: Yeah. That's Right? Buy from $33.99.
00:50:48 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:50:48] S2: Yeah. That's Right? Buy from $33.99. [00:50:52] S0: Okay. Let's just keep going down here and pick max memory. No. Pick the gray glass. You gotta pick each one or it doesn't let you go to the next. Nanotexture glass. Oh, I know. It didn't let you pick. [00:51:02] S2: Color. Pick... Okay. Silver. [00:51:04] S0: You gotta you gotta pick everything when you go through this. [00:51:05] S2: Nanotexture [00:51:06] S0: glass. Nanotext glass. Okay. Where where we at now? 36MMM5 [00:51:10] S2: pro max chip. [00:51:12] S0: Yeah. Okay. Chip. Go 18444. [00:51:15] S2: Customization, want unified [00:51:17] S0: 5,500. No. Top memory. Oh, yeah. Hit the drop down there. Top memory. What does it give you top memory? Hundred twenty eight days. Let's go. Storage. We'll go for Eight terabytes. 16 terabytes plus $7,000. Keyboard. [00:51:35] S2: We got the right keyboard already. [00:51:36] S0: No trade in. No trade in. We save our stuff. [00:51:39] S2: We're gonna buy it. $14,549. [00:51:44] S0: Hey. Just congratulations. You bought a 15,000 that you could put a... You could buy a used Tesla with hardware full [00:51:50] S2: time. Does look incredible, though. I'm sure it's a beautiful machine. [00:51:53] S0: I don't wanna touch my screen, Subway, John. Who was touching their screen on the laptop? I have an iPad for that. [00:51:57] S2: I don't like that. [00:51:58] S0: Just buy... Do you know what a great deal iPads are? Oh my god. They're close to free. I love a good iPad with keyboard. Yeah. You don't Delicious now.
00:51:58 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:51:58] S0: Just buy... Do you know what a great deal iPads are? Oh my god. They're close to free. I love a good iPad with keyboard. Yeah. You don't Delicious now. [00:52:06] S2: You don't need to be getting your laptop screen. That's silly. Know. Disgusting. [00:52:10] S0: I know. Disgratzia. You're gonna be eating... We're gonna have velvet tacos. You're gonna be touching your screen. [00:52:15] S2: It's no good with velvet tacos. Is no good with it. [00:52:17] S0: You gotta see Lon when he gets those velvet tacos when he's not on the Ozempic. When I move closer to the city, I'm gonna be in the office a lot more. We just gotta do a taco run. [00:52:39] S2: Oh, yeah. [00:52:39] S0: We'll... But we would do two tacos. We were reasonable. Right? Did I ever go three? [00:52:43] S2: No. I don't think we ever did three. Three three at Velvet Taco was too much. You would do... Right. You gotta do the two tacos, then you share a queso. I think that's You [00:52:50] S0: share a queso. You're good. Alright. Well, we're... Are we off duty? Is there something off duty you wanna talk about here? I finished house of... By way, I finished house of dragons. Excellent. [00:52:58] S2: Finally finished. Excellent. This season was pretty good. It started a little slow, but satisfying way. I I got into it. [00:53:05] S0: I'm very sad when dragons die. Yeah. I'm very sad when dragons die. [00:53:09] S2: They're like they're like dogs. They have little emotional connection to them. Well, I did [00:53:13] S0: That's just like... It reminds me of my bulldogs. That's exactly it.
00:53:13 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:53:13] S0: That's just like... It reminds me of my bulldogs. That's exactly it. [00:53:15] S2: Yeah. I did I did wanna talk to you about, just to get a little political, but in in more of a fun way. So one of the big memes that's going around post election or ideas that's photoground is that Okay. Woke is gonna come back, and all of the tech CEOs are going to get back in line and resume their [00:53:35] S0: They are. [00:53:35] S2: Their previous woke, ways of talking. And, here's a here's a funny one that I got of Zuckerberg. This is gonna be what Zuck looks like now. That's great. Like I like that. [00:53:47] S0: Rich. I saw somebody did a great video, like, we're all... We were always blue or something. [00:53:51] S2: So this one is a Reid Jackson's predicting Chamath. Tomorrow's gonna be like, there are only two priorities, inequality and climate change. He's gonna be back there. So I wanted to pick your pick your rate. Is it... Is that gonna happen? Do you think... Was this this jump over to Trump and to the right? Is that, like, a sincere... Like, the the... These guys have embraced that philosophy and that worldview, or do you think, oh, now that democrats are back in power, we're gonna see a lot of the tech CEOs and leadership come back to the fold and become democrats again?
00:53:51 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:53:51] S2: So this one is a Reid Jackson's predicting Chamath. Tomorrow's gonna be like, there are only two priorities, inequality and climate change. He's gonna be back there. So I wanted to pick your pick your rate. Is it... Is that gonna happen? Do you think... Was this this jump over to Trump and to the right? Is that, like, a sincere... Like, the the... These guys have embraced that philosophy and that worldview, or do you think, oh, now that democrats are back in power, we're gonna see a lot of the tech CEOs and leadership come back to the fold and become democrats again? [00:54:21] S0: I I think everybody will... I don't know if they'll become democrats. I think if the democrats are smart, they'll invite them, to participate, come to DC, etcetera, and, they should take the invitation. And if we have a Democrat win the White House, they will certainly... The Democrat should absolutely, steal Trump's playbook. This was the best one. [00:54:50] S2: Yeah. This is another good one. [00:54:53] S0: Before we begin, we acknowledge the indigenous people That's NVIDIA. Whose ancestral lands I was doing your bit. Center occupied. [00:55:00] S2: It's it's a Your good lived experience is our most valuable data. You recognize that good intentions That won't [00:55:09] S0: be erase. Right? With the mustache. Who's [00:55:12] S2: that? To redistribute. Is [00:55:13] S0: that Powell? [00:55:13] S2: Andreessen? That's Andreessen. [00:55:14] S0: And we want to lead that work. That's Bezos. [00:55:17] S2: There's a Andreessen.
00:55:17 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:55:17] S2: There's a Andreessen. [00:55:18] S0: Look at Elijah with that thick mustache and [00:55:20] S2: a pop song. [00:55:22] S0: Here we go. They made a pop song. There's Darius. So there's Darius. Karp. Karp. Yeah. Sometimes after the polls closed, values never changed. Just updated This is so great. Always blue. Mhmm. Look how much a founder cares. And look at the real the real hipsters are like, that's not true. [00:55:57] S2: This is gonna this is gonna happen in the culture, but these guys have a really hard road, I think, ahead if they wanna do that because everybody remembers what happened. [00:56:07] S0: I I think you could make a very simple, argument like I did. Hey. Listen. I... I've had my problems with Trump. I said it early on when he... Listen. He's the president. I support the president. I I support whoever's the president of The United States. I'm American, and I hope for the best for them. And then I call balls and strikes along the way. You know, if AOC wins, I'll support her as well. I don't know if I'll vote [00:56:30] S2: for her. I don't wanna vote for a socialist. [00:56:32] S0: I'm like I don't [00:56:32] S2: I don't think taxes to be 60%. Think it's gonna be. I'm an AOC fan. I would vote for her if she ran, but I don't I don't think [00:56:40] S0: Really?