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This Week in Startups · August 21, 2026 · 1h 9m

Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328

Allan Guo, Ethan Goodhart
Show Notes

Jason Calacanis and Lon Harris discuss the latest in startups and AI. The episode highlights Harvey's release of an open-weight-based legal model as evidence that open source will eventually dominate AI. Allan Guo, co-founder of the free AI dictation app Willow, joins to talk about competing with Wispr Flow and Apple. Later, Stanford student Ethan Goodhart shares the story of building an autonomous golf cart and giving rides to Jensen Huang and Sam Altman around campus.

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Canon

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Systems over goals05:17
Jason and Lon advocate for focusing on systems rather than simply setting goals, a concept from productivity literature.
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Novel

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Willow’s free AI dictation app challenges incumbents35:58
Allan Guo presents Willow, a free AI dictation app designed to compete with established players like Wispr Flow and Apple’s voice input.
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Autonomous golf cart gives rides to Jensen Huang and Sam Altman51:00
Ethan Goodhart built an automated golf cart at Stanford that drove tech luminaries Jensen Huang and Sam Altman around campus.
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Highlights

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Harvey’s open-weight model shows open source will win AI30:52
Harvey, an $11B legal AI company, released its own in-house model trained on the open-weight Kimi K3 base, proving that open source allows companies to build proprietary AI without sharing sensitive data with frontier labs.
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Editorial

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ARR matters less than churn14:19
Jason and Lon argue that top-line annual recurring revenue is a less important metric than customer churn when evaluating a startup's health.
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Misc

✧Jason's Grok bot antics start the show.
✧Lon and Jason express their love for the Toyota Alphard.
✧Stanford student Ethan Goodhart built an autonomous golf cart and gave rides to Jensen Huang and Sam Altman.
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