Reacts Episodes

Nov. 27, 2023

Reacts: Sam Altman Is Back! Move Fast & Break Things

He’s back! Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI, less than a week after being fired by the board. Today on The Startup Podcast, Emil Michael also returns to the pod with Chris and Yaniv to discuss the latest OpenAI drama. Toge...

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Nov. 20, 2023

Reacts: How Firing Sam Altman Might Lead To The End Of The World - Se…

On the 17th of November OpenAI announced on their blog that Sam Altman was fired. This sent shockwaves throughout the startup ecosystem worldwide. What happened next was even more fireworks. Greg Brockman, the other co-founde...

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Nov. 14, 2023

Reacts: AI Insiders Discuss OpenAI DevDay 2023 - Everything You Need …

OpenAI DevDay 2023. A conference that sent reverberations throughout the startup ecosystem worldwide. Welcomed back on The Startup Podcast to discuss and debate it all are Jeremiah Owyang, general partner at Blitzscaling Vent...

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Oct. 13, 2023

Reacts: Palestinian & Israeli Debate War In Gaza

Gaza Strip. Events are evolving rapidly. The Startup Podcast is fortunate to be hosted by Chris and Yaniv who’s personal backgrounds provide a unique opportunity to share both sides of the Gaza War. This is a raw and unfilter...

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Sept. 27, 2023

Reacts: Founder Mental Health - Silent Struggles Of Startup Leaders

Today is a very special episode. This week on The Startup Podcast, Chris and Yaniv are joined by Mike Filbey, founder of Pepper and former co-founder of ButcherBox. Mike's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. He catapul...

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July 26, 2023

Reacts: Twitter Rebrands To X - Mad Genius or Just Mad?

🚨Twitter Rebrands to X 🚨 Elon Musk wants to blow up the Twitter brand & replace it with 'X' - but why? Listen to this bonus episode of The Startup Podcast, hosted by Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein to hear their 🌶️🌶️🌶️ takes! ...

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June 14, 2023

Reacts: Apple Vision Pro - A Masterclass in Product Development and M…

Apple on your face, or a big disgrace? 🤔 On the 5th of June, an auditorium sat patiently waiting for Apple’s 2023 Worldwide Developer Conference. Rumours had been floating for a while that there was a new product under develo...

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June 8, 2023

Reacts: New Mother vs Founder: Are the two incompatible? w/ Amy Sun

🚨WARNING: Controversial topic alert!🚨 Historically, startup culture has forced people to create a professional facade. A facade that inhibits the ability to reveal any kind of distraction or humanity that might weaken your po...

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May 11, 2023

Reacts: The VC Slaughterhouse -- Don't Let Investors Kill Your Dreams

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episode. Yaniv and Chris are fired up about bad VC investors, and they can't hold it in any longer! Good Venture Capitalists help founders make the impossible, possible. They are the fuel that allows rocketships to...

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April 27, 2023

Reacts: ChatGPT - A Billion Dollar Company with Only 3 Employees? w/ …

About The Episode All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. But how do you pick through the hype to understand the real impact? And importantly, as a founder how should you react to the rapid emergence of LLM-based AI? Chris is join...

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April 13, 2023

Reacts: Chris is Back With Controversial Thoughts on the Last Few Epi…

About The Episode Chris has had to watch from the sidelines for the last four episodes while he rested his voice, and it almost killed him! This week he is BACK and can’t wait to share his spicy takes on everything we discuss...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Reacts: Why Elon Musk Killed Twitter’s Developer API – According To T…

Amir Shevat was in charge of Twitter's developer platform, until he was fired (along with his whole team) by Elon Musk. Twitter no longer has a developer platform. In this episode, Amir talks with Chris and Yaniv about Twitte...

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Nov. 21, 2022

Reacts: Downturn Fundraising - How to Raise Money in the Current Clim…

It’s no secret that the investment environment has changed quite drastically in the last six months, and for many founders out there it has become much more difficult to raise the needed funds. We have recently had the privil...

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Aug. 25, 2022

Reacts: Adam Neumann's Big Raise - And What We Can All Learn From It

The founder of WeWork, Adam Neumann, spent countless billions of investor money on the way to a failed IPO that values the company at over $50 Billion. Now, it is worth just one-tenth of that amount. The WeWork story was pres...

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July 21, 2022

Reacts: The Uber Files - Tech Industry Narratives and the Media

Uber has been in the news recently thanks to a fresh trove of emails discussing some of the early practices at the company. Chris and Yaniv use this news as a jumping-off point to discuss the social obligations of tech compan...

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