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Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
- ▶ 11:32 Ofir Ehrlich I just need to bring to, I know all of those new cool things that come out every day in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 31:10 Ofir Ehrlich And the only way they can actually getting deployed and, and, and become AI much faster is by letting a, a, a, a, a strong engineers who understand what they're doing and coming with the, uh, um, toolbox that they've created in top Silicon…
From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
- ▶ 49:38 Isaiah Taylor That is how Silicon Valley has come to be what it is.
Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak
- ▶ 14:15 Melisa Tokmak So I don't think enterprises are at least enterprise in these industries looking for that really fast, or in Anthropics case, you know, Silicon Valley converged in the idea that, you know, they pulled ahead and coding agents, um, or like…
Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel
Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan
- ▶ 25:26 Lip-Bu Tan That's why I'm really interested in US and then Silicon Valley
Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan
The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman
- ▶ 2:22 Andrew Feldman And then what happened was, at the end of the year, we signed a deal with, with OpenAI, sort of one of the biggest deals ever in Silicon Valley, sort of north of twenty billion dollars.
- ▶ 21:13 Elad Gil Option package timeline from, so for Silicon Valley comes from, it's like a four year time.
Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with Jacob Helberg
- ▶ 35:33 Jacob Helberg And I think it's something that really hits close to home for Silicon Valley because it really, Silicon Valley embodies, you know, the quintessence of the underdog mentality. 4 times in the scene
Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman
Scaling Global Organizations in the Age of AI with ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott
- ▶ 13:36 Bill McDermott Now, people don't often know, especially in Silicon Valley, what Korbel is.
Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
The Largest Untapped Market Inside U.S. Defense | Emil Michael
- ▶ 1:40 Emil Michael Because I get to work on the stuff that I used to work on where I was in Silicon Valley, like with work with entrepreneurs, work with new companies.
- ▶ 17:15 Emil Michael You know, you're like, it's sort of boring for Silicon Valley people.
- ▶ 17:55 Sarah Guo You mentioned that one thing you have to have, uh, to get these changes to happen is like some talent from Silicon Valley or just talent that is excited about this pace.
- ▶ 25:00 Emil Michael And that's not something that goes back to the hardware is hard, uh, in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 39:19 Sarah Guo Um, obviously, you know, you spent a long time in Silicon Valley, a lot of innovation is going to happen in, you know, in Southern California and Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
- ▶ 33:30 Jensen Huang This is, you know, let's face it, Deep Seek was probably the single most important paper that most Silicon Valley researchers read from in the last couple years.
No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- ▶ 22:33 Elad Gil And I think in Silicon Valley, people almost forgot because of the SAS era,
- ▶ 41:01 Gabe Pereyra I think people in Silicon Valley, I think people have a good sense of where these models are going, but I think generally people
No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
- ▶ 36:47 Sajith Wickramasekara Like, again, it goes back to needing to translate some of these amazing things that come out of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley into, like, useful vertical applications in, in very complex regulated domains that we felt like we're, we're…
- ▶ 46:08 Sajith Wickramasekara I think in Silicon Valley, sometimes it's a little bit easy to, like, oversimplify other people's jobs.
No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
- ▶ 56:59 Nikesh Arora You know, you've been in Silicon Valley for a long time. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
No Priors Ep. 131 | With Jared Kushner
- ▶ 9:20 Elad Gil And then there's, at least in Silicon Valley, some perception that some areas are increasingly really engaging with sort of being pro-tech or pro-progress.
- ▶ 15:49 Jared Kushner Uh, what we saw in Silicon Valley is that they're amazing at solving problems. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 Jared Kushner You guys are in Silicon Valley where everyone who comes into your office every day is saying,
- ▶ 49:24 Elad Gil Right now, there's a lot of different people that I know in Silicon Valley who are moving out to help with different aspects of government in a way that I haven't seen people show up before, and these are really exceptional people who I…
No Priors Ep. 129 | With U.S. Under Secretary of State (E) Designate Jacob Helberg
No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
- ▶ 13:51 Elad Gil I think that's like old-school Silicon Valley even.
- ▶ 19:27 Elad Gil Because I was talking to, uh, one of the best known sort of tech public company CEOs, and his view was that in all of Silicon Valley, or in all of tech kind of globally, there's probably a few hundred at most great product people.
No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
- ▶ 1:00 Elad Gil So, you know, for our audience, Hiram has been a well-known Silicon Valley individual. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Sriram Krishnan And you're going to get this flywheel effect where who winds up getting ahead could wind up really accelerating ahead in kind of a classic network effect ecosystem way that all of us in Silicon Valley will understand.
- ▶ 16:58 Sriram Krishnan You and I know that's not how Silicon Valley thinks. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 124 | With SurgeAI Founder and CEO Edwin Chen
- ▶ 2:48 Edwin Chen And like, one of the things I've always hated about Silicon Valley is that you always see so many people raising for the sake of raising. 5 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 122 | With Rippling Co-Founder & CEO Parker Conrad
- ▶ 0:11 Sarah Guo Parker needs no introduction as one of the most admired founders in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 2:35 Parker Conrad And so there's this sort of like idea in Silicon Valley that you should learn a lot from failures.
- ▶ 3:05 Sarah Guo And I think you said something to me like starting a company sucks, especially when you were, you know, not in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 19:52 Parker Conrad People sort of grumble about the kind of, um, the work culture in Silicon Valley being sort of about this sort of grind kind of culture.
No Priors Ep. 119 | With Applied Intuition's Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig
- ▶ 0:42 Qasar Younis We're representing Detroit and Silicon Valley, so.
- ▶ 9:35 Peter Ludwig People who grew up, let's say purely in the Silicon Valley mindset or purely in the mindset of, I can go to the store and buy this computer and I can, I can write software and this computer runs whatever operating system 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:29 Qasar Younis That's where my view always is, is like, look, if we're on the same trip or, or, or playing field, in that context, Silicon Valley has some huge advantages.
- ▶ 33:20 Qasar Younis You know, it's not Silicon Valley.
No Priors Ep. 118 | With Anthropic Co-Founder Ben Mann
No Priors Ep. 117 | With Co-Director of Stanford's HAI & Founder of World Labs Dr. Fei-Fei Li
No Priors Ep. 114 | With Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 27:06 Luis von Ahn If you live in, you know, New York or Silicon Valley, you'll see that, you know, there are schools that are doing really progressive stuff, et cetera, but the vast majority of the education system, it's very slow to make changes like this.
No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
- ▶ 18:44 Kyle Vogt And this is just like kind of how the Silicon Valley ecosystem and venture capital market works.
- ▶ 34:50 Kyle Vogt I, along with many other people, I think, who started companies around the same time, fell victim to the Silicon Valley dogma of traditional engineering management, um, for Silicon Valley companies, and so that's like, hire the, the VPs… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 Elad Gil I think that's what makes Silicon Valley so great.
No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 43:13 Winston Weinberg And I might say something that might upset some people, but spend some time out of Silicon Valley too.
- ▶ 47:12 Sarah Guo If I think about the like implication for, um, us or for founders, like one of the things that has just felt really, um, impenetrable about industries that Silicon Valley folks don't spend a lot of time in.
No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
- ▶ 1:19 Elias Torres I'm not in the valley.
No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
- ▶ 30:00 Eric Simons I was my, I was 19 when I came out of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 84 | With Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan
No Priors Ep. 83 | With Rippling COO Matt MacInnis
- ▶ 2:12 Matt MacInnis The compound startup thing obviously has been in the zeitgeist a little bit in the Valley.
- ▶ 19:44 Matt MacInnis Now, by contrast, companies like Rippling and many companies in Silicon Valley, uh, not only know what to do or think they know what to do with the next incremental dollar, but they want even more dollars than they have access to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 Sarah Guo Oh wait, I think a common objection in like classic, not rippling, Silicon Valley, do one thing well type companies is, is really hard to focus on that many things.
No Priors Ep. 73 | With Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu
No Priors Ep. 68 | With Zapier Co-Founder and Head of AI Mike Knoop
- ▶ 14:33 Mike Knoop Many of them don't even live in like the Bay area or Silicon Valley or California.
No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
- ▶ 0:18 Elad Gil He started Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter, and has had a storied career working at a variety of Silicon Valley companies, including Palantir and others.
- ▶ 4:45 Elad Gil Yeah, people forget how much longevity there is sometimes in Silicon Valley, and they forget how you act early really impacts almost how people perceive you 10 years later, 15 years later, et cetera, and so it's, it's, if you're very…
No Priors Ep. 63 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman
- ▶ 16:42 Elad Gil I guess, I guess speaking of career transitions, you've had, I think one of the most impressive careers in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 26:47 Reid Hoffman And one of the things that frequently a lot of Silicon Valley people say, which I think is Bozoville, is that, that technology is value neutral, right?
- ▶ 42:43 Sarah Guo They're often in Silicon Valley.
No Priors Ep. 42 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
- ▶ 32:02 Arthur Mensch So this is not the level of the Silicon Valley, obviously, but, but we start to have an ecosystem in place with investors, uh, with operators, uh, investing as well.
No Priors Ep. 38 | With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon
No Priors Ep. 36 | With Hubspot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
- ▶ 9:35 Brian Halligan So it's actually a child of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 21:23 Brian Halligan He's obviously a big Silicon Valley booster. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:25 Sarah Guo You are a Silicon Valley company.
No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
- ▶ 29:07 Jason Kelly Like, that's just every normal corporation that isn't founder-controlled in Silicon Valley, where, like, the voting shares are majority-held by arm's-length capital, and they, if the CEO's not doing anything they want, they bring in a… 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan (Japanese Version)
No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
No Priors Ep. 26 | With Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald
No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar
- ▶ 1:38 Shyam Sankar Made my way out to Silicon Valley in, uh, in 2003 and started getting involved with startups. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
- ▶ 11:41 Frank Slootman I think it's the biggest bullshit thing that goes on in Silicon Valley.
No Priors Ep. 22 | With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
No Priors Ep. 19 | With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 1:24 Brian Schimpf After that, I went out to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 5:18 Brian Schimpf And the best people in software were, like you said, they're in Silicon Valley, and they were choosing not to, and explicitly and loudly choosing not to work on these problems with defense.
- ▶ 32:59 Brian Schimpf So it's like, that is the crazy reality of the US Defense Department is they did not operate on Silicon Valley time schedules for
- ▶ 43:15 Brian Schimpf It's not Silicon Valley pace.
- ▶ 46:58 Brian Schimpf There's a lot of areas where I think Silicon Valley has figured out efficient ways to 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
- ▶ 26:25 Clem Delangue People who are impacted by these biases, especially underrepresented populations, which is kind of like otherwise really hard to do if you only do the work, uh, behind closed door in the lab, uh, in Silicon Valley with mostly old white…
No Priors Ep. 16 | With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
- ▶ 39:20 Mustafa Suleyman You know, the Valley probably needs to be a bit more open to the European approach.
No Priors Ep. 2 | With Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela
No Priors Ep. 13 | With Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA
- ▶ 1:01 Jensen Huang Uh, on the other hand, uh, there was an, another company that was a startup at the time, uh, built by, uh, one of the legends of Silicon Valley, Wolf Corrigan. 3 times in the scene