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LMArena Goes Startup, AI App Wars Begin, Scott Bair’s Design Playbook | E2114

4/18/2025 • 61 min

Today’s show: Jason, Alex, and Lon discuss the rise of LMArena as it spins out into a full-fledged startup, what that means for AI benchmarking, and how it could monetize its growing community. They also dive into the emerging value of application-layer AI startups and why OpenAI’s acquisition spree is just beginning. Plus, branding expert Scott Bair drops tacti… Play episode

AI Progress and Impact on Ecosystem Players with CapitalG’s Jill Chase | A…
Cuts CEO Talks Tariffs, Figma's IPO Buzz, and a Nerd Crawler Update | E2113
Vertical AI Innovations: Abacus LLM in Finance & Synthesia's Video Avatars…
HuggingFace Buys Pollen Robotics, DHH & Bezos Founder Advice & a JCal Orig…
Palantir's Fellowship, Coco Robots & Startup Office Hours | E2110
70mph Drone Deliveries, 125% Tariffs & What $10M Exits Really Mean | E2109
Economic Chaos, More Pitch Madness & the Shopify AI Manifesto | E2108
Rippling Targets $16B, Market Chaos, TikTok Timeout, and Office Hours | E2…
Spycraft in SaaS, Rabbit’s Comeback, and Startup Pitch Madness | E2106
M&A Mania, Palantir Meme Crash + Office Hours with Hookhub | E2105
AI Revolution Gains, Non-Consensus Startups & Prosperous AI | E2104
11x in Trouble and China's AI Acceleration | E2103
23andMe BANKRUPT, Saylor Still Buying Bitcoin, + Founder Interviews | E2102
Fact-Checking Mark Rober, and the Fall of TechCrunch | E2101
Tesla vs. Mark Rober, Google’s $32B M&A Bet, & XRP’s SEC Victory | E2100
AI-Powered Coding & Space Tugboats? Inside the Future of Software & Satell…
Self-Driving Car Myths, Klarna’s Big IPO & Netflix’s $300M Gamble | E2098
Europe’s Startup Future with Harry Stebbings | E2097
Is Project Europe a YC Riff? Nick Denton is Back! And more! | E2096
The Future of AI Customer Support with LiveX AI’s Jia Li | AI Basics with …
Student Roy Lee Hacks Amazon, SBF's Jailhouse Chat + more! | E2095
AI’s Next Leap: Hyper-Realistic Agents & Unlimited Power | E2094
Coreweave IPO, AVRide & Digg is Back! | E2093
AI Agents & the Future of Work with LangChain’s Harrison Chase | AI Basics…
US Crypto Reserve Bombshell, Ramp’s $13B Climb, & more | E2092
Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin …
The Incredible Double Interview: Superhuman and Robinhood | E2090
Apple Drops $500B on AI while Google Gemini Eyes Your iOS Devices! | E2089
Castelion Hypersonic Missiles and Crunchbase’s AI Powered Predictions | E2…
EV Truck Startup Nikola Runs Out of Juice | E2087
Is $LIBRA the End of Memecoins? with Coffeezilla | E2086
IPO Shakeups, NVIDIA’s Big Bets & Must-Know Founder Hacks | E2085
Slow Ventures' Creators Fund and Helion Energy's Fusion Reactors | 2084
Tech's Super Bowl, Huge Earnings Week, Lon Returns and more! | E2083
Gas Stations in Space and Carried Interest on the Chopping Block | E2082
Is Palantir's Surge Just Hype | E2081
Lovable's Anton Osika on Revolutionizing Software Development and OpenAI D…
Is OpenAI Really Worth $300B? ElevenLabs’ Series C & YC’s Funding Focus | …
Boom Supersonic's Milestones, OpenAI Ethics, and Startup Tools | E2078
DeepSeek Rattles Markets + SailPoint's Going Public… again? | E2077
Twilio Bets Small, DeepSeek Scares & the GameOn Fraud | E2076
Created By Humans | Sila’s Battery Evolution | E2075
Trump, Memecoins, and What to Expect from the New Administration | E2074
TikTok Ban, Data Centers in Space… and What's a Vector? | E2073
What’s Going On With Google Gemini Deep Research? | E2072
Profound, Resistant AI & OpenAI’s Economic Pitch | E2071
The LA Fire's Cost and the U.S. Jobs Report | E2070
Meta's Moderation and Nvidia's Domination | E2069
Twist News: Fusion, Rural Investment, and Applied AI | E2068

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