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Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein Aug 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:59 Max Hodak And so this comparison, I mean, I think that there's, it has gotten used in Silicon Valley to mean these things that have extremely long odds and are unlikely to work, and therefore we can vaporize a bunch of investor money just fine.

How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 · 1 mention

Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture Aug 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:47 Elad Gil In the eighties, Boston was sort of the counterweight to Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak Jul 31, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:10 Elad Gil You know, it's interesting because I'm in the middle of Silicon Valley where people are very, uh, AGI-pilled, right?

Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention

Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan May 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:56 Sarah Guo Just to close, and also thinking about what, you know, people in Silicon Valley or outside of security may not know, you're building this from Tel Aviv, right?

The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman May 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:04 Elad Gil In other words, the traditional Silicon Valley playbook would be, you know, you find the HOA industry, you realize that there's a need in terms of software, you build software for the industry, and then you sell it as a vendor.

Scaling Global Organizations in the Age of AI with ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott Apr 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI Mar 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:03 Sarah Guo Yeah, that's very inspiring, and it's also interesting, like, I don't, I don't know how far this goes, but it is interesting that at least some audience of people, you know, here in Silicon Valley, or lining up at, um, you know, retail…

The Largest Untapped Market Inside U.S. Defense | Emil Michael Jan 15, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang Sep 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:38 Elad Gil And there was almost this period in Silicon Valley where people didn't want to say that.

No Priors Ep. 131 | With Jared Kushner Sep 11, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Aug 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:08 Sarah Guo Today, Elad and I are here with Jacob Halbert, the Undersecretary of State Designate for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, co-founder of the Hill and Valley Forum, connecting Silicon Valley to policymakers in DC, and author of…

No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund Aug 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 31, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 24, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 17, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 12, 2025 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 117 | With Co-Director of Stanford's HAI & Founder of World Labs Dr. Fei-Fei Li Jun 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:37 Sarah Guo I can tell you the training data for that is not going to come from Silicon Valley people. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 114 | With Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn May 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Apr 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:08 Elad Gil And now, you know, those were the rumors in the valley when each company was, you know, tens or little hundreds of people.

No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Dec 19, 2024 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons Dec 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

No Priors Ep. 84 | With Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan Oct 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:33 Lina Khan Yeah, it's an interesting issue, and, you know, I visited Silicon Valley a few times, and whenever I, you know, sit down with, with founders, um, this is a question that we get.
  • ▶ 20:23 Lina Khan That's why I've come out to Silicon Valley a couple of times.

No Priors Ep. 83 | With Rippling COO Matt MacInnis Sep 25, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:20 Sarah Guo So very strong conventional wisdom, uh, in Silicon Valley will say like, build a killer app, not a platform.

No Priors Ep. 68 | With Zapier Co-Founder and Head of AI Mike Knoop Jun 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:36 Sarah Guo That's something like Silicon Valley people are very proud of, but also all of these people are very capable of, and they have like very high risk appetite.

No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman Dec 21, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:44 Elad Gil And, you know, there's this, um, this view that's kind of been moving around Silicon Valley in terms of the professional managerial class, right? 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI Nov 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 26, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:04 Ryan Noon Like I'm, you know, it's like, obviously like we were all had to, the Valley had to deal with like Snowden and everything, you know, 10 years ago and whatever.
  • ▶ 33:07 Ryan Noon You know, especially when, you know, we are irrationally exuberant again in Silicon Valley.

No Priors Ep. 36 | With Hubspot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan Oct 12, 2023 · 5 mentions

No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly Sep 28, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Aug 17, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:15 Sal Khan それがカナアカデミーの将来に非常に重要になったと思いますそして私はシリコンバレで友人たちにこれを披露していた時彼が言ったお前はスケリングするつもりなんてないのか私はいやできないと答えました一人では何もかも十五人のとこたちとするのは難しいですから彼は言うというものがあるじゃないかと言ったんです私は最初それはひどいアイデアだと思いました 3 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan Aug 17, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:58 Sal Khan And by this point, my family had moved out here to Silicon Valley. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:31 Sal Khan Even when you get into high school, even in Silicon Valley in high school, where a lot of other schools get quite competitive, secretly quite competitive, but everyone knows it.

No Priors Ep. 26 | With Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald Aug 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:31 Elad Gil I think one interesting side note on that, just from a Silicon Valley history perspective is

No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar Jul 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 29, 2023 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 22 | With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo Jun 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:16 Sarah Guo Um, you've led some of the most iconic products and companies in the tech world, but you don't, uh, subscribe to some of the, let's say Silicon Valley monoculture. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 19 | With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf Jun 1, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 19, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 11, 2023 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 2 | With Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela May 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:33 Elad Gil Yeah, it seems like a lot of the history of Silicon Valley actually ties in really closely with art.

No Priors Ep. 13 | With Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA Apr 25, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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
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