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Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory Aug 31, 2026 · 5 mentions

Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:06 Ben Lamm Where it's like, now that, now that Elon's going to put like a whole base on the moon and then Mars, I guess we can't call moonshots, moonshots anymore.

Nikesh Arora: $300B, 40 Acquisitions, Still Paranoid Aug 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 53:41 Nikesh Arora Yeah, I've struggled to find one role model in life, because every role model has certain parts of their life that you don't want to emulate, but there are certain parts you do, and I think you don't have to go, sort of, spend time with it… 3 times in the scene

SpaceX's Former CIO: "Never Worked Harder in My Life" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 16, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 4:49 Ken Venner It was such an interesting story that Elon was going to save humanity from itself by colonizing another planet, because we're going to screw this one up, and we need to keep humankind going.
  • ▶ 5:10 Ken Venner Chief information officer working for Elon and Gwen. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:39 Molly O'Shea What do you think the key components of Elon's magic is? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:43 Molly O'Shea I know Elon is obviously a big spotlight of SpaceX, but I haven't heard many stories about 6 times in the scene

Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 15, 2026 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Ken Venner Elon had hired me because he wanted to build the digital nervous system for the 21st century rocket company.
  • ▶ 44:22 Ken Venner It was such an interesting story that Elon was going to save humanity from itself by colonizing another planet, because we're going to screw this one up, and we need to keep humankind going, and it was another scaling opportunity, so I… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:16 Molly O'Shea I know Elon is obviously a big spotlight of SpaceX, but I haven't heard many stories about Gwen and what it's like working with her. 6 times in the scene

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 18:54 Molly O'Shea I feel like Elon would go. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:05:31 Cyan Banister Um, and then of course Max came, ended up starting PayPal, uh, teamed up with Luke, and then eventually Peter came on board, and then the Elon part also happened. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20:42 Cyan Banister Encounters something like, it's kind of like Elon, you know, you, you don't know what to do with it, so it's just easier to hate it.

Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 6, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 45:51 Matt Miller You know, it's a philosophical point because like at some point, you know, if you, if you go so far, you're talking about machines running a lot of things and, you know, you can go as far as the Elon point of view where we need to harness…
  • ▶ 47:54 Molly O'Shea Well, you talked about Elon, so I want to talk about SpaceX. 3 times in the scene

Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:33 Ev Randle When Chathan invested in star cloud, it was like weeks, like we closed the investment weeks before Elon started like, you know, professing his love and, and bullishness on overall data center. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 16:01 Brian Armstrong So to do a 10, twenty-year exercise to go build a world-changing company like Coinbase or, you know, what Elon did with SpaceX, that's just not going to happen in Argentina because

Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 23, 2026 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 1:59 Molly O'Shea was you started the book, you literally started the book with Elon. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:37 Molly O'Shea Like, so I guess, like, well, you've experienced that in multiple directions, and I think X is probably one of, not to, like, talk about Elon too much, but I think X is, for me at least, one of the most interesting testing grounds, because… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:39 Mark Pincus At the same time, I think the power of the best founders is the willingness to like, Elon, I think just lost like his whole founding team from XAI, right? 2 times in the scene

SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2026 · 14 mentions

$40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 15, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 20:46 Molly O'Shea Are watching right now, other than the Elon Musk, Sam Altman trial. 3 times in the scene

SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1% · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 16 mentions

Tom Mueller: SpaceX's #1 Employee Built the Merlin Engine. Now He's Building Impulse Space · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 4, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 3:07 Tom Mueller In fact, that's how I met Elon was, uh, through the amateur rocket stuff that I was doing.
  • ▶ 35:05 Tom Mueller Um, if you're, if you're staying near earth or even between earth and Mars, probably solar electric, um, is, is, is, is going to outperform it on, on cost and performance just because solar is now getting very light in space, especially if…
  • ▶ 39:17 Tom Mueller Um, if you can build like Elon plans to do and get there faster, I think that's going to be the right answer. 9 times in the scene

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

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

  • ▶ 31:09 Jaimin Rangwalla And then you have Elon Musk giving a stamp of approval to Intel and increasing the pace of innovation.

The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Leif Abraham Elon is gonna own all the robots, and the power disparity that's gonna happen there is gonna be so massive, the wealth disparity that's already extreme in the US is gonna become even more extreme.
  • ▶ 1:04:54 Leif Abraham You know, like Elon is going to own all the robots, you know, and I think the power disparity that's going to happen there is going to be so massive, and I think the first order effect of that is going to be that the wealth disparity… 2 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 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:47 Hannan Happi Um, even Elon Musk famously said that a couple of years ago and a couple of times.
  • ▶ 38:48 Hannan Happi So they have that infrastructure, but, you know, Elon, uh, really taught us how to vertically integrate everything and, and build it yourself and build it better, faster, cheaper, and, and don't take no for an answer.

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:09 Molly O'Shea I talked to Sean McGuire of Sequoia, who they've invested billions into SpaceX and Elon companies.

Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 13, 2026 · 8 mentions

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: $10T Companies Are Coming · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

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

99.9% of the internet is about to be AI? · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:15 Geoffrey Woo Like the Sam Altman's and the Elon Musk's are also just pushing what is possible.
  • ▶ 36:35 Geoffrey Woo Like, I think there's a few entrepreneurs, I would say like an Elon Musk or a Palmer Luckey are like in that same caliber of tier, like a, like a, like a Zuckerberg.

How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 28, 2026 · 20 mentions

  • ▶ 0:59 Molly O'Shea You think Elon's underrated?
  • ▶ 2:53 Shaun Maguire Uh, one thing for me that's kind of been a lesson of watching how Elon builds companies is he, 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:48 Shaun Maguire Um, look, I, I think that, I think it's gonna be insane, and I think it's gonna feed into a lot of the other Elon companies. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:28 Shaun Maguire Not like he's, I would say he's only gets like 10% of the appreciation he deserves.
  • ▶ 23:53 Shaun Maguire And, you know, another thing was Elon at the time, like Tesla, when we first invested, it was about a seventy billion dollar market cap company. 7 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 40:14 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton From, like, 20 11 when I first became an investor to, um, well, up until today, but to a certain degree, you know, I was always listening to just Elon and Deepak talk about that business, how they framed the business, how they, um, you…

I Tried Flying an Air Taxi With Archer’s CEO (Midnight Simulator) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:35 Adam Goldstein I think Elon did an amazing job by, um, he, I think he was the first one to say, Hey, retail can ask questions on the quarterly conference calls or retail can come to the, you know, the big launch events or, you know, retail can be a part…
  • ▶ 36:04 Adam Goldstein Um, from a, uh, from an operator's perspective, there's, like, the ultimate, uh, operator, which is, which is Elon, and, you know, if you watch what he's done, it is nothing short of, like, absolutely unbelievable. 2 times in the scene

Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:20 Michael Mignano In the case of companies like XAI and Neuralink, it's like, you gotta back Elon Musk if you have the opportunity to.

Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:20 Trae Stephens Um, I'm super grateful for, you know, the trailblazing that were, was done by people like, you know, Elon, Gwyn, and Tim at SpaceX, and, uh, Karp, Shom, uh, and, uh, Lonsdale, and Aki, and others at Palantir.

What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 29, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:55 Bradley Tusk The narrative and the belief by investors that Elon, and he is a genius, but like that Elon will just figure things out that no one can predict, including Elon right now, and therefore the value is worth it, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:03 Molly O'Shea He says the same thing, like, why can't I run, like, 10 companies like Elon?
  • ▶ 33:06 Bradley Tusk It wasn't like someone had like, it wasn't Elon Musk doing his next company, right?
  • ▶ 55:01 Bradley Tusk Um, and there are half a dozen people, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Chamath, others who are big Trump supporters, Peter Thiel, Elon in a way.
  • ▶ 1:08:10 Bradley Tusk Law before anyone was like a futurist that just writes things, but doesn't actually do anything, um, and did more to make that happen than probably anyone in the world, maybe him and Elon, you know, and so, um, he saw it so much well…

Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 24, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Philip Clark As a kid, my heroes were Oppenheimer working on the Manhattan Project, or Claude Shannon working at Bell Labs, or Elon Musk, you know, starting SpaceX when I was four or five years old.
  • ▶ 18:51 Philip Clark You know, if you were Elon starting SpaceX in the early 2000 or, uh, Palmer and Brian and Trey and Matt starting, uh, uh, and role in the late 20 tens, there wasn't actually a huge population
  • ▶ 32:13 Philip Clark You know, I, I think incredibly highly of DJ and Elon and the entire team there that have done huge feats of engineering. 2 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 · 1 mention

How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 17, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 36:59 Elad Gil Uh, I mean, Elon Musk has just accomplished amazing things. 4 times in the scene

Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:43 Jonathan Siddharth You gotta solve energy, and you gotta build data centers, and you see what Elon's doing with his projects, you see what Sam Altman and OpenAI are doing, you see what Meta's doing. 2 times in the scene

Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 10, 2025 · 3 mentions

Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 8, 2025 · 31 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Molly O'Shea What's the biggest lesson you've learned from Elon? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:00 Ashlee Vance You know, Elon's always super short on, I don't know, well, Elon's super short on text. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:45 Molly O'Shea What's the biggest lesson you've learned from Elon? 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:56 Ashlee Vance Yeah, yeah, but like, Chris, Chris is kind of like, he's wired like in Elon or O'Brien.

Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 4, 2025 · 5 mentions

How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:21 Molly O'Shea Because of course there's a lot of backlash with Elon and Doge and that sort of thing.

Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

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

  • ▶ 48:17 Packy McCormick Cause I think that's like dark that Elon is doing like all of this great stuff and then introducing waifus that are like taking over people's, you know, all of their time.

How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 25, 2025 · 6 mentions

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

  • ▶ 43:33 Molly O'Shea Post-twenty-twenty-four companies have an extreme advantage to scaling super fast, organizing their databases really well, using these AI agents and tools, using cursor, using copilots, that sort of thing, so that they don't have to worry…

Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2025 · 1 mention

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