Ashlee Vance
Founder & Host, Core Memory. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ashlee Vance is a veteran technology journalist and author of the biographies Elon Musk and When the Heavens Went on Sale. A former writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times, he founded and hosts the frontier tech media company Core Memory.
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Vance: SpaceX has lapped Blue Origin for 20 years, taking over rockets
“The difference between SpaceX and something like Blue Origin that started about the same time you know, I think Blue Origin's, like, coming on now, but they've had 20 years where SpaceX has just been lapping them, it's, like, taken over the entire rocket busin…”
SpaceX and Rocket Lab are the only launch companies succeeding, says Vance
“There's like space X and rocket lab and they're the only two have figured it out and they figured it out on a scale that like nobody else has even got close to yet.”
Ashlee Vance: Worthwhile Hardware Breakthroughs Require 10 to 12 Years
“It seems like all the really good, the biggest things I've ever covered, they all take 10 to 12 years. I think Silicon Valley, sometimes you have this overnight sensation kind of thing where you see Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg turn up when they're 26 and the…”
Vance: Bryan Johnson genuinely revels in public criticism rather than acting
“He was actually when I first met him, I mean, he was so, you know, the reputation was he was really sensitive to criticism and he was kind of like thin skinned and since he got famous, he just like revels at all these people crapping on him. And I don't actual…”
Vance: Bryan Johnson genuinely understands the science behind longevity
“And so I think some people sometimes question like, Does he know the science at all? He, like, really does. I mean he can, like, it's impressive. He can talk at length about all this stuff.”
Vance: Quantum and fusion founders often overconvince themselves of their progress
“They're probably like the two areas where I feel the least comfortable trying to tell what's real from what's not real, because everybody's raised a ton of money, and it seems like serious people that are doing it, and they're smart people, and then you just c…”
Vance: Fabricating qubits is now something almost every quantum startup can do
“Now it seems like just about everybody can, Make cubits. They can make quite a few of them.”
Vance: One million physical qubits yield roughly one thousand useful logical qubits
“There's this weird thing with quantum computing where you have to use all these funky software techniques to do this error correction stuff, and so if you have a million qubits, it comes down to about, like, A thousand are really, really useful for what you're…”
Vance: Silicon Valley went from ignoring Bryan Johnson to actively seeking him out
“Like he used to come to Silicon Valley and nobody would meet with him and he could never raise money for everything. And then now I see him walk into these rooms and everyone's like wants to talk to Brian, but they also, they're all trying to learn how to live…”
Vance: George Hotz built a self-driving car alone in one month
“George Hotz built, like, a self-driving car on his own in, in, like, a month.”
Traditional media subtly shapes writers' voices without them realizing, says Vance
“As you get into more traditional media, there's a lot of fantastic stuff that comes with it and you learn a lot, but you don't, I, you don't fully kind of realize how your voice is getting shaped by the platform until, until I started this”
Ashlee Vance is writing a book on OpenAI; movie rights sold
“I'm doing a book on open AI and AI more broadly. And I've been working on that for like 18 months and penguin random house is going to publish that and sold a movie rights to it already.”
Figure made robotic progress far beyond expectations, says Vance
“When I went to figure They had made so much progress in 18 months to two years, way beyond what I would have thought.”
Tesla Optimus made incredible progress after initial smoke and mirrors, says Vance
“Optimus, you know, to be honest, like when I first saw Optimus, I thought it was like very heavy on the smoke and mirrors and like they've made incredible progress as well.”
Vance: Musk Left Neuralink at 1 AM for xAI with a 4 AM Meeting
“We were at Neuralink filming something for a movie I'm making, and we were there until Like one in the morning, and then he went straight from there back to XAI. And then I had a friend who had a meeting with him at like four AM, I think.”
Ashlee Vance left Bloomberg due to lack of speed and flexibility
“I just kind of like reached a point where couldn't really move fast enough for all the different things that I wanted to do within the confines of Bloomberg. I felt like there was Kind of lacking some flexibility, a whole bunch of things.”
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2026 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
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- SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN
- SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN
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- The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN
- BREAKING: DOGE Just Added a GAME CHANGER
- Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
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- Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Continues (WHO’S WINNING?)
- DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
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2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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| SOURCERYLEDGER | Founder & Host, Core Memory | 2 | 10 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Sourcery → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Founder & Host, Core Memory | 1 | 7 | — | full record on TBPN → |