Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278 | This Week in Startups

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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.

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Guests :

Eragon: https://eragon.ai

Josh Sirota on X: https://x.com/joshua_sirota

IONA: https://ionadrones.com/

Etienne Louvet on X: https://x.com/etienneldva

Relevant Links

Eragon Seed Round coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/this-startup-wants-to-make-enterprise-software-look-more-like-a-prompt/

Neurometric: https://www.neurometric.ai/

Ollama model: https://ollama.com/

Orange Slice: https://www.orangeslice.ai/

Corgi Insurance: https://www.corgi.insure/

Slash Financial: https://www.slash.com/

The Syndicate: https://thesyndicate.com/

FAA Part 108 Explained: https://pilotinstitute.com/part-108-explained/

Zipline: https://www.zipline.com/

Google Wing: https://wing.com/

Joby Aviation: https://www.jobyaviation.com/

Enterprise Ireland: https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/

Éire Composites: https://www.eirecomposites.com/

Kimi K2.6 blog post: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6

Kimi K2 series on GitHub: https://github.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2

NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 work station: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb300-nvl72/

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 https://Plaud.ai/twist 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 https://quo.com/TWiST

11:32 Eragon demo

15:55 Giving agents their own bank accounts

19:07 Inside Eragon's first partnerships

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25:50 How does Eragon make money?

29:11 Pilot - Visit https://www.pilot.com/twist 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