California
5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 9, 2025 by Justin White · said 73 times in 36 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Molly O'Shea (14), David Friedberg (6), Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz (5), Eric Allison (5), CJ Desai (4), Justin White (3), Zach Dell (2), Tarek Mansoor (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 42 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside the Factory Behind Base Power's $1B Series D
- Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Rocket Lab CEO Sir Peter Beck Is Building a Multi-Generational Space Company
- Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- CIO of Marc & Ben's Multi-Family Office: SpaceX IPO, Anthropic & OpenAI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 27 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about California, oldest first
Apr 9, 2025
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Gil: State-level regulations like California's could curtail US AI progress
“And the dangerous part in AI was there's state level initiatives that have been very negative or could have been very negative for AI. I think Scott Wiener proposed one in California. I think there's others that have been proposed in other states that you coul…”
Mar 27, 2026
Del Buono: Temporary out-of-state moves fail California tax residency tests
“Leaving your house here, your main house and moving to Texas or Florida for a year or two with the intent of coming back, it doesn't qualify. If you do come back after a couple of years, the tax authorities here will say, look, you never sold your house. You n…”
Jun 11, 2026 negative
Jul 22, 2026 bearish
Friedberg: California is functionally bankrupt with a $30B–$40B budget deficit
“Well, if the ballot initiatives and the tax policy and the battle that's going on in the state for spending and taxation is any indication, I, you know, think it's probably true. The current budget from the governor is Something on the order of 30 to forty bil…”