This Week in Startups · Jason Calacanis

INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225

December 18, 2025·1 hr 27 min·5 clips
Mikey Shulman explains why Suno's focus on AI and creativity attracts talent despite lower pay than tech giants.
Jason Calacanis hosts an AI roundtable with Wade Foster (Zapier), Ali Ansari (Micro One), and Mikey Shulman (Suno) discussing AI startup hiring challenges, training data scarcity, and societal impacts. They explore talent wars with Meta and OpenAI, the rise of AI training jobs, and counterarguments to Bernie Sanders' AI deceleration proposals.

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A fast AI discussion that stays close to how the tools actually work.

It treats AI as a practical question, not a shiny one: what changes in work, and where does the help stop? The panel starts with isolation and the promise of assistance, then turns to the harder tests in finance, medical, legal, and coding work.

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Want an AI debate that moves from social isolation to where models still break?

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