El Segundo
other on 8 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 54 times in 36 episodes since 2024
TBPN 35 
Sourcery 12 
the a16z Podcast 3 
American Optimist 1 
Latent Space 1 
No Priors 1 
20VC 1 
My First Million
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2026 15 mentions in 12 episodes 1 per episode
- Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory
- Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
- Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
- Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
- Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
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2025 25 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Augustus Doricko talks Cloud Seeding, Christianity, The Gundo Boys and the future of Rainmaker.
- Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- Augustus Doricko (Rainmaker) Talks Terraforming, Regulation Battles, and Climate Tech
- Defense Tech vs. Silicon Valley
- What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 14 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- Cyan Banister & Lee Jacobs: Investing in 'The Magically Weird' | SpaceX, Uber, Anduril · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale
- The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
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4 statements about El Segundo, every show
Doricko: El Segundo engineered high-production aesthetics to make hard tech appealing
“It's been a very deliberately engineered aesthetic effort to make hard tech sick, because if it's not, then everybody's going to end up in finance again. The next generation, the lower class of zoomers, they're going to end up doing software engineering.”
Coogan: El Segundo Defense Tech Ecosystem Started as Counter-Cultural and Independent
“The gundo really was like very punk rock and very counter-cultural and very independent. And very not an industry plant.”
El Segundo is a concentrated hard tech hub including SpaceX and Varda
“There's 10 interesting companies all in this, like one block. Our buddy John Coogan did an amazing Video worth watching, 17 minutes, and it's basically, he goes to this area of El Segundo where he's like, you got SpaceX, Radiant Nuclear, Varda, ABL Space Syste…”
'Gundo bro' culture is off-putting to women and limits talent pools
“I find some of the, like, you know, sort of you know, gundo bros or gundo boys, you know, culture you know, a bit off-putting to, you know, people that are not of the male gender, and it's something that I've, you know, heard validated, you know, sort of acros…”