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How Rocket Lab CEO Sir Peter Beck Is Building a Multi-Generational Space Company Aug 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:29 Sir Peter Beck Uh, and then we start off here in California, um, we have these two facilities in, in California. 2 times in the scene

The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense Aug 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:07 unnamed speaker Develop on a test range in California, and then just sort of put their head in the sand when the thing doesn't work in the battlefield.

Inside the Factory Behind Base Power's $1B Series D Aug 3, 2026 · 4 mentions

David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 22, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24 David Friedberg Was this California bankruptcy? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:12 David Friedberg Following in, um, in the current state in California, I'm going to read you this quote.
  • ▶ 14:37 David Friedberg And so that's why I worry so much about this wealth tax in California and the conversation happening about instituting a wealth tax, which is really an asset seizure

Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:34 CJ Desai Scott at Cognition, and we were talking and we said, next week, should we meet in California?
  • ▶ 30:52 CJ Desai You're in the state of California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:17 CJ Desai Then I thought of solar panel at my home in California that, okay, during the day you can have all this energy source like a solar panel, but at night it's not functioning.

SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2026 · 7 mentions

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:10 Brian Singerman There's, first of all, even in the California one, there's provisions for it to like, once all the billionaires leave, oh, well, we need to get the money somehow. 2 times in the scene

She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:00 Jackie Reses And when I was flying out to California and thinking about it, I was like, what about what I am good at screams HR?

CIO of Marc & Ben's Multi-Family Office: SpaceX IPO, Anthropic & OpenAI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:33 Molly O'Shea That's going to be a very large wealth creation event across California, Texas, wherever, you know, alumni have gone after.
  • ▶ 41:39 Michel Del Buono So first, there have been some people that left California, moved to other states, and they've come back, uh, and it's a personal decision, but when you asked them why you came back, you said, yeah, saving, you know, 10% taxes is nice and…

How He Turned a Blood Test Startup Into $7B OS for Healthcare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:17:36 Max Levchin Part of why Silicon Valley and California warts and all is a pretty great place is there's such a concentration of really smart people.

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 34:57 Molly O'Shea Taxes are probably one of the biggest, uh, talks around town, especially in California. 4 times in the scene

Inside Opendoor HQ on Earnings Day (Office Tour + Live Stream) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:07 Kaz Nejatian So I wanted to get, ah, throwing stars, ah, but they're very, they're very illegal in California. 2 times in the scene

Data Centers in Space? Armada’s CEO on SpaceX and the Edge · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

Inside Zipline’s Factory: The World’s Largest Drone Delivery Network · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:47 Molly O'Shea Okay, maybe there's like a, I mean, we're in California, there's like people who love crystals, maybe you guys love rocks.

Zipline: The Largest Autonomous Delivery System on Earth (and You’ve Barely Heard of It) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:24 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton And it's not actually that dissimilar from the fact, you know, you can look at, like, how do we solve homelessness in California?

CEO Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's Record Year (+200%, ~$100B Market Cap) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:41 Vlad Tenev I really, I'm, I'm, I'm hoping, I don't know if this is a hedge or a speculation, but I hope we get a lot of snow in California this year.

Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:57 Emil Michael And then the defense innovation unit, which actually is based, ah, in California, in Mountain View.

Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:30 Zach Dell California obviously is up there in Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, um, and, you know, Florida. 2 times in the scene

Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:30 Eric Allison So we were really excited to announce that we are expanding our California facilities, um, and actually doubling our capacity overall at our pilot manufacturing site in Marina, California. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:27 Eric Allison So we're a company that's born, uh, kind of on the coast of, uh, coast of California, Santa Cruz, California.
  • ▶ 5:11 Eric Allison So all of the stuff we're building, whether or not it's parts in Ohio or, or lots of parts in California, that's all feeding into the aircraft that

Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 10, 2025 · 1 mention

Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:55 Ashlee Vance I mean, he had sort of this, he was from California, but he had, like, almost like a southern, like, uh, foghorn leghorn sort of voice to the way he would talk, and, um, I remember I went with him to dinner to this, the Village Pub, it's…

The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:13 Adam Goldstein Um, but in the sort of, in the short term, we build stuff out of the California, uh, facilities, which is kind of more of our new product introduction or NPI lines.

Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:49 Packy McCormick Um, I will say we were texting me, you and Will, and I was reading a book on Esalen, and like literally everybody involved in that and in charge of Esalen, which is like this, uh, center out in California that was, you know, part of, uh,

How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 25, 2025 · 1 mention

Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Roy Lee In California, and like within a week or two, the guy just pulled up the office and went and caught, um, which they do not have the money.
  • ▶ 6:25 Roy Lee Like, what can I do but fucking raise a round and go to California?

How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:05 Paul Klein You can say, Hey, I want you to go to the California nursing website, look up Julia who nursing number nine four one five six, and tell me that she has her nursing license.

Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 9, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:49 Justin White Um, a piece of hardware is very different in Texas than it is in California, as an example. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:09 Justin White In certain other areas like California or, um, honestly, a lot of the country,
  • ▶ 43:38 Zach Schendel You have electrification of transportation and heavy industry in, in California, in, in the Midwest, uh, in the Northeast.

How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:58 Tarek Mansoor I mean, you know, I, I grew up in, I mean, I was born in California, I grew up in Lebanon, like, you know, the, the anecdote, like, two, two specific things that tell, I mean, maybe summarize how I grew up, like, one, I, I grew up till…
  • ▶ 38:48 Tarek Mansoor And, like, between how the, you know, and it's like, I'm neither, like, I'm, you know, I was born in California, Lebanese Christian, like, not, you know, and,

How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:32 Packy McCormick Like, it actually does get cheaper because when, you know, there's, there's sometimes in Texas and in California when it's so sunny that they pay you to take electricity off of their hands.

Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:23 Sam D'Amico So like middle of the day in California, there's usually excess solar power that like would otherwise be like discarded effectively that you can essentially receive and know pretty clearly that you're not going to be causing a fossil fuel…

Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:38 Mark Suster So it talks about how he built roads across Oregon, Washington, California, eventually, uh, built the Hoover Dam.

Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:37 Minn Kim Never say never, but, um, I'm like a fully adopted Californian at this point.
  • ▶ 35:43 Molly O'Shea Yeah, it's, it's hard to go back once you have adjusted to how awesome the state of California is, except for the taxes and a lot of other things, right?
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