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Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III Sep 10, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 1:29 Molly O'Shea Palantir CTO, Sean, just talked about this, but we're ratioed by China in shipbuilding. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:54 Dino Mavrookas I mean, China can now produce the rest of the world in terms of ships, and they just keep taking that capacity by undercutting the world on price in the commercial market.

Dino Mavrookas: America Needs to Build Ships Again Sep 8, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Dino Mavrookas If we ever actually do get into a conflict in Taiwan Strait that leads to World War III or anything dramatic, China can now produce the rest of the world in terms of ships. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:19 Molly O'Shea Palantir CTO, Sean, just talked about this, but we're ratioed by China in shipbuilding. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:33 Dino Mavrookas China has 57% of total global shipbuilding capacity.
  • ▶ 16:13 Molly O'Shea Isn't there a certain, like, in China, don't you have to build every boat to military grade? 10 times in the scene

Inside Saronic’s $9.25B Autonomous Boat Factory | CEO Dino Mavrookas Sep 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

How Rocket Lab CEO Sir Peter Beck Is Building a Multi-Generational Space Company Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:19 Molly O'Shea I want to go back to the beginning of how you built this all out, because the top three countries for launch are the US, China, and New Zealand, and you created a monopoly on launch in New Zealand.

Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech Aug 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:30 Ben Lamm Um, and then the crazy scientist in, in, uh, China that did the CRISPR babies, he like posted that they were bio weapons.
  • ▶ 27:47 Ben Lamm I don't even remember, like, a decade ago when people were like, ah, you can't, you, like, San Francisco, like, temporarily put, like, this moratorium of investing in facial recognition because China was doing some bad stuff, isolating…

The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense Aug 11, 2026 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 Soren Monroe-Anderson China has been the biggest beneficiary because they've been supplying both sides of the war, probably making tens of millions of drones per year easily, maybe in the hundreds of millions. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:31 Molly O'Shea So how many drones does China produce a year? 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:07 Molly O'Shea What do you think about China selling to both sides? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:10 Soren Monroe-Anderson Um, that meant that we had gone and de-China-fied our core components.
  • ▶ 30:18 Soren Monroe-Anderson I agree, but there's actually so much new industry, um, that didn't exist in the first place, and it's not, I think the misconception is not look back to history, but actually look forward and realize how do we do this better than what… 3 times in the scene

Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 29, 2026 · 5 mentions

BlackRock's Tony Kim on AI's Next Winners? Chips, Memory, Robotics & Quantum · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 24, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:48 Tony Kim The Chinese are coming, and there's a 130, 140 robotics companies in China. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:57 Tony Kim Maybe 2000, depending, if you add China, not in China.
  • ▶ 45:03 Tony Kim And when you think about that, the Chinese are coming. 7 times in the scene

SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:06 unnamed speaker There's, you know, it's nice in the summers here to go to Italy or to go to France where we are today, but if you want to build, you know, the biggest companies in the world, you need to look past that and you need to understand that…

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2026 · 3 mentions

Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:00 Brian Armstrong Um, it's the big, it's the largest, it's, it's the, I'd say it's the most free large economy, much more free than, say, China, right?

Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention

SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 2, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Eric Romo China launches XYZ thing.
  • ▶ 32:47 Eric Romo Uh, and then, uh, China now has consistent access to space, and, and has a massive program to essentially duplicate our launch capacity. 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 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 3:38 Jackie Reses There was like hedge funds and activists trying to force Yahoo to sell their stock, and agreements that were going to cost Yahoo tens of billions of dollars, and so I go into this situation having never been to China, and I show up in… 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:38 Jackie Reses Jack Ma is an incredible visionary, and he is very big picture and thinks conceptually about concepts like, I want to change what middle class looks like in China. 4 times in the scene

Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 15, 2026 · 1 mention

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:24 Teresa Carlson Permitting around things like critical minerals, uh, energy, things that help us build out all this infrastructure, and that's going to be a big focus for us, really working with lawmakers on how can we support efforts to make sure that…

Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 1, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:40 Molly O'Shea Have you had any supply chain risks, whether it's with China or other countries?

300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 29, 2026 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Kyle Harrison The problem is now that China is doing that today.
  • ▶ 16:26 Kyle Harrison It's actually we, you lack the iterative cycle to stay anywhere close to the cutting edge, so to your point, it's not only that everything is super expensive and super delayed, it's actually not anywhere close to the cutting edge either,… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:12 Kyle Harrison Uh, I think it was like in twenty-twenty-two even, um, President Biden openly acknowledged that, that China represented an existential threat. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:46 Kyle Harrison Australia is sort of, like, the, the tip of the spear for that effort, because they are right there in the Pacific, close to China, um, Taiwan is, you know, nearby, like,
  • ▶ 48:59 Kyle Harrison And I think the other thing to understand is that we are sort of staring down the barrel of a large, a potential large scale conflict with China. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:10 Kyle Harrison Because one of the problems too with complaining and trying to send up a flare is that if you don't then have a solution, it's difficult to rally people, and also you didn't have a lot of urgency because you didn't have China rising as a…
  • ▶ 1:05:50 Molly O'Shea Are trying to build off of an American supply chain versus ones that do rely on adversarial nations, whether it is China, which, you know, that does touch a lot of things.
  • ▶ 1:09:46 Kyle Harrison The problem is now that China is doing that today.
  • ▶ 1:17:56 Kyle Harrison If you engage in conflict, but also for our allies, where we want to make them what Palmer calls prickly porcupines, where we want Taiwan to be prickly enough that China doesn't think it's worth it to step on them.
  • ▶ 1:25:24 Kyle Harrison They thought it was just a matter of time until countries like Russia or even China

Skydio HQ Tour: The $3.5B Bet on American Drone Manufacturing with CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:46 Adam Bry Competition with China, the national security stakes, the military, military applications, I think are super important, and we're involved in that stuff.

Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 23, 2026 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 5:02 Adam Bry We find ourselves in a position of really being the only company in the world, certainly the only company outside of China that's capable of delivering these things reliably at scale.
  • ▶ 17:12 Molly O'Shea China. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:37 Adam Bry Originally, like, if you roll back 12 years, basically all drones and all drone components were made in China. 6 times in the scene

Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 15, 2026 · 3 mentions

A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:00 Alex Immerman Uh, China has done a really good job on that front, and I think, like, the US, like, needs Elon, needs to continue to push that forward.

Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:30 unnamed speaker Across the world, particularly with China.

Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:26 Shaun Maguire No one else has outside of China.
  • ▶ 22:15 Shaun Maguire The total global launch market, it depends how you count it, it depends how you count China, some of the government launches, but I would say in 2019 it's probably like a five, six billion dollar market, like addressable market.

Data Centers in Space? Armada’s CEO on SpaceX and the Edge · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 26, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Dan Wright In a few years, what's going to happen is either the world is going to be running on the USAI stack, or it's going to be running on the Chinese AI stack. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:57 Dan Wright Part of the full stack approach, and also with Star Shield, I mean, that's a huge advantage that we have when you think about, you know, some of the conflicts that are going on, and people talk to me a lot about this race that we're in…
  • ▶ 12:43 Dan Wright That's our competitive advantage versus China. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:05 Dan Wright and then I'll give some other examples, but if you think about a military example, if you look at where a lot of these conflicts happen now, it's in the Pacific, it's, you know, in the Arctic, obviously there, I think there was a recent…
  • ▶ 20:38 Dan Wright Also partners in different specific industries that we're focused on, we're very focused on American AI and energy dominance, and so all of the energy companies that, um, are already working with oil and gas companies, mining companies,…

Zipline: The Largest Autonomous Delivery System on Earth (and You’ve Barely Heard of It) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:01 Molly O'Shea Um, what are your biggest learnings of vertically integrating and manufacturing yourself versus China? 2 times in the scene

I Tried Flying an Air Taxi With Archer’s CEO (Midnight Simulator) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 17, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:20 Molly O'Shea Well in China, don't they regulate that every new ship that's built or every boat that's built has to be certified to be able to carry military vehicles on it? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:21 Adam Goldstein It was, uh, you know, one of my engineers was set up to look like he was, uh, like a Chinese spy, and it was totally faked.
  • ▶ 44:31 Adam Goldstein It was a Chinese brand I'd never seen before, and so it was definitely like a major red flag. 2 times in the scene

Palmer Luckey on UFOs, Anduril, Invisibility Tech, & Moon Wars · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 18, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:11 Trae Stephens Um, you know, China is playing a subsidized subsidization game, uh, with all of their kind of domestic national champions, uh, and they're also running a very effective 40 chess strategy with the Belt and Road Initiative, which has put the… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:21 Trae Stephens Uh, to lower cost labor, uh, locations like China.

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf on $1B+ Revenue & Still Doubling · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 16, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 17:49 Brian Schimpf You've got China doing constant aggression on the Philippines and the South China Sea.
  • ▶ 24:48 Brian Schimpf And these are industrial policy things that now, for the first time in decades, we've, you know, taken honestly the fact that China wasn't playing the free trade game that we were playing, that they were using their state power to create… 3 times in the scene

Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:43 Brian Schimpf You've got China doing constant aggression on the Philippines and the South China Sea.
  • ▶ 13:29 Trae Stephens Uh, to lower cost labor, uh, locations like China.
  • ▶ 29:06 Palmer Luckey These are people who are, we are concerned about adversaries like Russia and China and Iran that are armed with very, very high levels of technology, and they're, if anything, the optical camouflage in some ways actually makes you easier…

Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:42 Emil Michael Competition with Lyft, like competition with China, you know, same thing.
  • ▶ 3:20 Emil Michael Competition with Lyft, like competition with China, you know, same thing.
  • ▶ 5:31 Emil Michael One thing that happened in the last, especially the last four years, but really over, over the time period since the war on terror ended, um, is China started investing in really sophisticated capabilities.
  • ▶ 11:48 Emil Michael That means it could get from China to the U.S. in 30 minutes. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:38 Emil Michael Ah, well, the three I'm most proud of, ah, in a very recent term, is we've done three deals for critical minerals, ah, to reduce our dependency on China in like, 45 days.
  • ▶ 21:00 Emil Michael Chinese are doing their distilling models. 3 times in the scene

What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 55:44 Bradley Tusk So if you were China and you had the ability to install an American and control an American president, there's like an old movie called The Venturing Candidate that's about that.
  • ▶ 1:02:31 Molly O'Shea And then also MP materials, which by the way, like manufacturers, a lot of their magnets through China. 3 times in the scene

$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 21, 2025 · 9 mentions

How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 18, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:30 David Ulevitch One is that there's just increasing realization, whether you look at what's happening in the Ukraine, or you look at what's happening from, um, across the Pacific Ocean in China, their ability to build ships is much, much faster than ours. 4 times in the scene

Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:09 Andy Lowery Like Andrew's very me too to China. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:17 Andy Lowery The same is true with the physical cyber is what I'm going to call six domain type stuff where you have computers that are flying or computers that are in boats or computers that are in robot men that are starting to walk the fields… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:53 Andy Lowery You know, you see folks from China, you see folks from Iran, but you see folks like the Houthis who don't even have their own country, but they're able to participate.
  • ▶ 16:34 Andy Lowery You have to go to China and military doesn't want to buy
  • ▶ 40:55 Joshua Steinman There are reports to Congress, open testimony by directors of national intelligence that the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians and the North Koreans, but especially the Chinese, have been prolific in their efforts in the cyber… 5 times in the scene

Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

Vibe Coding, AI Valuations & the Supercycle | Navin Chaddha, Mayfield · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:46 Navin Chaddha Their competitors in China, just the top two players are worth, one is worth seventy billion, the other is worth fifty billion.

Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

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

  • ▶ 33:25 Billy Talheimer Moving around island chains in the Pacific, you know, Guam is about as close as the U S gets to China.

Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 4, 2025 · 1 mention

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