This Week in Startups · 2026-09-09 · 1h 21m
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent - NetSuite - Vanta - Check out a full transcript and summary of today's show, created by Plaud: Today's show: An Anthropic researcher quit this week, saying both leading labs are gambling with everyone's lives. His coworker chimed in and predicts there is a greater than 10% chance that AI will end humanity IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS. Jason and Lon take it to Yohei Nakajima of Untapped Capital, Ben Lerer of Lerer Hippeau, and Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Prime, who cannot decide whether it is the greatest PR strategy in history or some kind of mass psychosis. Learn why Jason says founders should never hand a frontier lab their proprietary data, whether or not they're offered free credits. PLUS, who really solved Navier-Stokes, and what does the OpenAI - Buckmaster fight mean for anyone doing real work inside ChatGPT or Claude?
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Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play