This Week in Startups - Video

Today, it’s a special #AskJason: mobile, wearables & Internet of Things (IoT) edition, with special guest Janice Fraser, the Director of Innovation Practice at Pivotal. Jason and Janice lend insights to fans’ pressing questions on m/w/IoT, including why IoT is so important, the states of virtual and augmented reality, what the Apple watch really needs to succeed, whither mobile in emerging, global markets -- and will we still be driving cars in 5-10 years?

Today’s guests for this two-parter: Tyler Cooper, Founder & CEO of TheTake, a platform for identifying people and places in movies, and Alexander Mimran, Founder & CEO of Minbox, a cloud file-sharing and storage software. Both are graduates of the LAUNCH Festival, and Jason sits down with each to hear about their company’s progress since debuting.

News Roundtable with Quentin Hardy, NYTimes & Jeff Bercovici, Inc.: Q3 earnings stunner, Theranos mess, Slack dominance, RedYouTube, journalism's shifting landscape.

At LAUNCH Scale 2015, Jason sits down with Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Joel Simkhai of Grindr.

At LAUNCH Scale 2015, Jason sits down with David Sacks of three-unicorn PayPal, Yammer, and Zenefits fame, Troy Carter of Atom Factory, and Nalden Hans of WeTransfer.

At#STHLMtech Jason sits down with Truecaller Cofounder Nami Zarringhalam; bonus panel on the Future of Finance.

At #STHLMTech Fest, Jason takes a global look at The Future of Investing with Accel, 500Startups, & Telia.

Today's guest is Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor at Stanford Business School, whose new book "Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time" tackles the leadership crisis plaguing companies and stifling true innovation.

At STHLM TECH FEST Jason sits down with Skype and Atomico Founder Niklas Zennstrom and Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski. An amazing conversation spanning: Stockholm v. Silicon Valley breakdown as the best place to start your company, how Niklas came to invest in now-unicorn Klarna, how Sebastian got the #1 VC (Mike Moritz) to not only invest but also join the Board, Niklas' experiences being sued for billions by the music labels over his co. Kazaa in the early 2000’s, how the idea for creating Skype came about, why Niklas decided to sell Skype for $8.5b to Microsoft (and if he regrets selling), how Niklas’s $450m VC fund Atomico provides more value than just money (hint: international growth), how the Stockholm startup ecosystem is booming and has the most unicorns of anywhere in the world per capita, the increasingly urgent topic of immigration -- and much more.

Today, it’s a special #AskJason: mobile, wearables & Internet of Things (IoT) edition! Jason lends insights to fans’ pressing questions on m/w/IoT, including the best wearable safety tech for bicyclists, Apple watch and glanceables, how to coach clients over mobile, whether podcasting and smartphones will take over terrestrial radio, and more.

News Roundtable! Today's guests are Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Carmel DeAmicis, Reporter at Re/code, with a highly spirited take on tech's latest. Ryan and Carmel talk ad-block mania, iPhone fever, Twitter polls, expanding Uber, Slack's morphing into social, SV work culture -- and they take Jason's Definitive Millennial Quiz.

Today’s episode is an incredible two-parter from STHLM TECH FEST. First, a fascinating discussion on the “Future of Transportation” with three companies leading the charge. Jason and Tyler Crowley talk with Uber European General Manager Jo Bertram, Tesla Chief Product Officer Peter Carlsson, and Delivery Hero CEO and Co-founder Niklas Ostberg (online food-ordering service in 34 countries), and Kees Koolen, Founding Partner at EQT Ventures. Among many gems, we learn how leading up to Model S release Tesla was burning $100m per quarter, how the car industry thought they would only sell 3,000 vehicles over their lifecycle (and they now sell 1,200 per week...and are thinking about the future of autonomous cars….); how Uber has legalized ride-sharing in most US cities and is one of the safest transportation options in every city they operate in, but still has a fight ahead in Europe; how Delivery Hero has raised $1b and what their path to profitability looks like (scale!) and why they might start making and delivering its own food. Next up we get a visit from the Prince of Sweden Daniel Westling and hear two pitches in the transportation space from Shipwallet (no-click shipping) and Fidesmo (a connected card).

Daniel Ek started Spotify in 2006 with a vision to revitalize the music industry, by giving consumers unprecedented access to tracks and creating a novel, sustainable business model. Now music-streaming is the norm, every player is in the game — and pioneer Spotify is sitting on top of the world with 20m+ paid subscribers. On stage with Jason at the STHLM TECH FEST, Daniel shares his journey, from starting his first company at 14, to bootstrapping Spotify with his own money, to dealing with competitors, to what’s next for the industry leader. It’s a fascinating discussion on music (and the joy and pain of innovating in this most challenging space), Spotify’s early dark days and hard lessons, startup transparency, thoughts on the Google Apple YouTube Tidal Taylor Swift potpourri, Daniel’s strategy for handling competition (hint: making Spotify better), Europe’s awesome and crazy cheap bandwidth (get with the program, America), breaking the music biz stranglehold, the future of streaming -- and much more.

When Founder Bryan Johnson sold Braintree to eBay in 2013, he decided to build something extraordinary to make the world a better place. So he founded OS Fund to invest in early-stage science companies working on solutions to our planet's biggest problems, in the fields of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, space tools, transportation. What's more, Bryan just created an open-source playbook for others to do the same -- one that demystifies investing in science so that more needed dollars can find these important companies. Bryan and Jason have an amazing conversation that spans science discoveries, religion, ideology, investment challenges and opportunities, our greatest societal threats, the latest in life extension, what's really going on in A.I., paying it forward, striving for peaceful co-existence, nuclear weapons, and (naturally) a sushi bet involving manned drones. Don't miss this!

Today's special guest is Tim O'Reilly, media pioneer, publisher extraordinaire, a hero of Jason and inspiration for many. The Founder of O'Reilly Media stops by the studio to talk about WTF Economy (that's ... What's the Future?) -- specifically, how technology is transforming the workplace, the challenges and opportunities we face as a result, and our best ways to move forward.