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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Inception comes up on Founders, TBPN, 20VC, David Senra, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital Aug 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan Jul 25, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 2:54 David Senra People will say to me, there are people online who are obsessed with Inception, or obsessed with Mento.
  • ▶ 8:42 David Senra I've watched Inception, you know, I don't know, six times.
  • ▶ 11:24 David Senra Inception. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:07 David Senra So this is pretty crazy, because I think before Dunker came out, and I would say Inception is probably my favorite, uh, Christopher Nolan movie, but he worked, he had the ideas from the, the, the coming up with the idea for Inception. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:06 David Senra Inception. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:21 David Senra You're gonna get stuck, and in Inception you get stuck, and almost all these movies get stuck, but 2 times in the scene

Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN Jul 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:28 unnamed speaker Inception. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:02 John Coogan Along with the hugely successful Dark Knight trilogy, he made his original hit movies, uh, like Inception and Interstellar.

How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 1, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:52 David Baszucki And so if I was a user and I, an infinite AI was available to a user is almost as if we can't imagine what that game would look like, you know, in the movie inception, when they go down to level three or something, they're,

Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:27 Lenny Rachitsky It's like Inception where just everything gets slower every time you go deeper into someone, every layer.

Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America Oct 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12) Nov 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:47:55 John Coogan Like, even in Inception, like, like, the dream technology is not really, like, the problem that they're working against.

The Biography of Christopher Nolan Mar 31, 2024 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 4:25 David Senra He says, people will say to me that there are people online who are obsessed with inception or obsessed with memento.
  • ▶ 16:18 David Senra Throughout Christopher Nolan's entire career, his version of watching game tape is he's constantly influenced and inspired by past filmmakers, and so he'll find a film that maybe came out 50 years ago that gives him an idea for, like,… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:52 David Senra And I've always wanted to do inception. 8 times in the scene

5 Internet Goldmines To Spot The Next $1B Trend | Steph Smith (#529) Dec 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions! Jan 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired Feb 22, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:27 Ben Gilbert Of course, you know his previous work too, Inception, Looper, recently Mr.

Live Episode! Wellness Coach and Podcaster: Jay Shetty Apr 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:50 Jay Shetty Yeah, so one of the things that we, we didn't touch on was that I started a society or a club at university called Think Out Loud, and every single week I would give a talk on philosophy, media, and psychology, so I would take a movie like…

20VC: HitRecord's Joseph Gordon-Levitt on How Show Business Prepared Him For Life As An Entrepreneur, What Founders Should Look For Most In Their Investor Base & Why The Current Ad Model of Social Is Harming The World's Creative Spirit Jul 12, 2019 · 2 mentions

#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08 Shane Parrish Movies like Straight Outta Compton, Godzilla, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, and so much more.

#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success Apr 16, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:13 Daniel Gross You know, it goes back to that wonderful Chris Nolan film, Inception, where I think there's that, you know, scene where DiCaprio is like, an idea is the ultimate, you know, virus or something.

Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) Mar 19, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:34 Martin Casado It's the whole, like, Leonardo DiCaprio, like, inception thing, where you're, like, putting an idea in somebody's head, which is a fundamentally difficult thing to do, so you want to create this object in their head, but that's not enough.

Going to Market When No Market Exists Oct 26, 2018 · 1 mention

Make AI Less Mysterious // Serkan Piantino, Spell (FirstMark's Data Driven) May 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:08 Serkan Piantino You have Inception, which is, um, you know, something that came out of Google, and, uh, the metrics for their accuracy on the right.

Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley · Y Combinator Jun 7, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:09 Ryan Ridley I think it is impossible to avoid, and I, I, we haven't done a good job all the time, because I remember we were doing the, the episode Lawnmower Dog, which had the, the Inception thing, and there's Scary Terry, who's the Freddy Krueger… 2 times in the scene
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