Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model E2278

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Quo - Vanta - Pilot - Plaud - Today’s show: *Eragon CEO Josh Sirota believes that you should “own your intelligence.” He demos a live enterprise AI operating system connecting email, Slack, calendar, and financial data into a single agentic layer that’s pre-trained to understand any business inside and out. PLUS we’ve got IONA Drones founder Etienne Louvet, a first look at Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6, and a brand new Off Duty with JCal and Lon. FULL SHOW NOTES ON NOTION: Guests : Eragon: Josh Sirota on X: IONA: Etienne Louvet on X: Relevant Links Eragon Seed Round coverage: Neurometric: Ollama model: Orange Slice: Corgi Insurance: Slash Financial: The Syndicate: FAA Part 108 Explained: Zipline: Google Wing: Joby Aviation: Enterprise Ireland: Éire Composites: Kimi K2.6 blog post: Kimi K2 series on GitHub: NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 work station: Timestamps: 0:00 Josh from Eragon AI joins the show 2:01 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 5:07 Why founders should own and control their data sets 8:33 What is a "company world model?" 9:48 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at 11:32 Eragon demo 15:55 Giving agents their own bank accounts 19:07 Inside Eragon's first partnerships 20:14 Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at 25:50 How does Eragon make money? 29:11 Pilot - Visit and get $1,200 off your first year. 39:33 Etienne Louvet of Iona Drones joins the show 42:37 What is FAA's Part 108? 47:13 How innovation in drones impacts the aviation industry 50:26 Working with Enterprise Ireland 58:28 Jason attended the Breakthrough Awards 1:04:10 Doug Liman's AI-powered "Bitcoin" movie 1:09:09 "Love Story" on FX and "Dust Bunny" on HBO Max 1:13:10 Jason's love of tinned fish

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Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model E2278 is an episode from This Week in Startups by Jason Calacanis.

This episode is 01:16:59 long.

This episode was published on Apr 21, 2026.

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