DigitalOcean Holdings ($DOCN) podcast mentions

1. DigitalOcean.

   Thibault Louis-Lucas · This Week in Startups · The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 · 2026-09-11

2. Want to see what building on a true AI-native platform looks like? Head to do.co/twist to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-native cloud today and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%. All right, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. It is Friday, September 11th, 2026. Can't believe it's 25 years from September 11th when I was living in New York and was wondering where my brother was, who was a firefighter at the time for half the day. Really intense memories I have from those days.

   Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 · 2026-09-11

3. They want to own equity in the startup as opposed to just buying its product? Truth is, most of the big popular AI models can handle your workloads just fine, and your performance and your cost, that comes down to your infrastructure more than your model selection. And the best way to keep your system running fast while staying affordable is with DigitalOcean's inference engine. DigitalOcean built their entire cloud platform from the ground up specifically with AI in mind. That means you get a serious performance upgrade without stitching together services from a dozen different vendors or getting hit with the surprise bill at the end of the month, which keeps happening to me. DigitalOcean system is already powering some of the biggest and most popular AI applications, Character AI runs over a billion queries every single day on DigitalOcean, and they cut their cost per token in half while doing so. So here's your call to action. If you want to understand what building on a true AI-native platform looks like, go to do.co/twist. Start building on the DigitalOcean AI-native cloud today and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%. That's do.co/twist.

   Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336 · 2026-09-11

4. So the VM most likely spins up when you use it and then taken down when you're not using it. So the actual compute hours that are associated to anyone but a power user, and of course, very quickly you can wind up spending $20 or $100, and that's enough to just pay for a virtual machine. Like you can go and rent, you know, a true virtual machine to like host your website on DigitalOcean for like $20.

   John Coogan · TBPN · Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN · 2026-09-10

5. So the VM most likely spins up when you use it and then gets taken down when you're not using it. So the actual compute hours that are associated complicated to anyone but a power user. And of course, very quickly you can wind up spending $20 or $100, and that's enough to just pay for a virtual machine. Like, you can go and rent, you know, a true virtual machine to like host your website on DigitalOcean for like $20.

   John Coogan · TBPN · Apple Unveils iPhone Duo, Muse AI Agent, Keith Rabois Joins | David Cahn, Mikey Shulman, David Perell, Jim Reilly, Fletcher Richman · 2026-09-09