This Week In Startups is made possible by: Render - https://Render.com/TWIST Northwest Registered Agent - https://NorthwestRegisteredAgent.com/TWIST LinkedIn Jobs - https://LinkedIn.com/TWIST Today’s show: A beanie that reads your thoughts and turns them into text — no surgery required? Jason grills the Sabi co-founders on their noninvasive brain-computer interface, backed by Vinod Khosla, and calls a cap on the whole thing (until he doesn't). This episode of This Week in Startups covers a lot of ground: Jason's tactical tip of the day on making everyone the CEO of their domain, a deep dive into Sabi's thought-to-text beanie, a live demo of AI-powered podcast sidebars built by the TWiST audience, the announcement of a new $5K bounty for an annotation tool, and Jason's big five wellness framework. Guests: Sabi: https://sabi.com/ Co-founder and CEO Rahul Chhabra: https://x.com/rahulchhabra07 Companies and people discussed: Matt Coffin, founder of LowerMyBills.com Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures Neuralink, a leading BCI company ElevenLabs, a leading voice AI startup Calm, the popular meditation app News stories referenced: The 2026 WHCD shooting DOJ charges against Cole Tomas Allen NYT podcast “The Opinions” featuring Hasan Piker All In podcast: Larry Summers debate Tools discussed during bounty conversation: Deepgram Gemini API OpenAI Whisper Delicious Annotated.com Timestamps: 0:00 Intro & tactical tip: Make everyone the CEO of their domain 1:05 Matt Coffin's "CEO of X" management philosophy 2:20 Community ownership: Deputizing Ricky, Lawn, Bianca, Maddie, Kabir 3:18 Building the Noti Gang: X group chats and community flywheels 4:24 Founder takeaways: Activate your top 1%, make someone the CEO of it 5:34 The streamer trick, parasocial dynamics, and creator ethics 8:50 Guest intro: Rahul Chhabra of Sabi 9:17 What is Sabi? Noninvasive BCI in a beanie with 100,000 sensors 9:18 LinkedIn Jobs - Hire right, the first time. Post your first job and get $100 off towards your job post at https://LinkedIn.com/TWIST 10:18 How it works: From fMRI to EEG, from hospital to hat 13:02 The brain foundation model and thought-to-text decoding 15:11 Vetting the founders: BITS Pilani, Stanford, athlete fatigue AI 16:38 Vinod Khosla's investment thesis: BCI must be noninvasive 18:46 Jason's challenge: Say "Calacanis" or it doesn't count 19:04 Northwest Registered Agent: Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist 20:46 Sabi.com: Reserve your device, release by end of 2026 21:42 Privacy concerns: Does the beanie read everything? 23:03 Jason's Big Five wellness framework: sleep, nutrition, exercise, meditation, socialization 24:57 Bounty #1: AI live sidebar contest — demos from the TWiST audience 25:18 What the bounty asked for: AI personas watching the show in real time 26:20 Oliver's breakdown: What's easy vs. hard about live AI commentary 27:56 Demo #1: Armchair (by Mark Colebrook) — fact-checker + troll personas, live 29:40 Render: Find out why 5 million developers are already using the all-in-one cloud platform, Render. Go to https://render.com/twist and apply for the Render Startup Program to get $500-$100,000 in free credits, depending on your stage and backers. 34:46 Live political violence test: The sidebar in real time on the WHCD shooting 38:01 Demo #2: Pod Commentators / SideCast — browser-based, Gemini-powered 39:51 Jason's revised Bounty #1 spec: Fact-checker + cynic, public stream or Zoom 41:57 Timeline: check-ins May 1, May 8; final winner May 15 44:07 Demo #3: BMD Pat (by Patrick Hughes) — instant URL, all-snarky personas 46:08 Bounty #2 announced: Annotated.com — a fair-use multimedia annotation tool 48:47 Annotated: the delicious.com of media commentary 50:27 Contest rules: Jason owns the domain, winner gets $5K + potential ongoing work 52:29 Wrap-up: Bounty 1 = AI sidebar, Bounty 2 = Annotated Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com