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AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 53:06 David Friedberg Like Meta and others have this workforce training program now where they're like taking people that have never used, they've been software engineers and trying to help them.
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:05 Arun Mathew We initially invested in Facebook in 2005. 2 times in the scene
Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 19:53 Mark Pincus Reed launched LinkedIn, or started pursuing LinkedIn, um, you know, before Facebook, before MySpace, I launched at a point that everything worked.
- ▶ 38:33 Mark Pincus The way that I built Zynga was find a place that people are already hanging out, like everyone was hanging out on MySpace and Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:08 Mark Pincus He's gonna be a top recruit for Meta or Google, and so I personally recruited him, and I said, if you come, I'm gonna manage your career personally at Zynga.
- ▶ 1:16:02 Mark Pincus The business model at the time was pay for access to a database, and this idea that led to, this started with Napster, and led to Friendster, and LinkedIn, and Facebook, and Twitter was, ok, what would it look like if we just enabled all… 3 times in the scene
Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:33 Molly O'Shea So speaking on your background, you were at Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta.
- ▶ 29:29 Gabe Pereyra I think the way that I do it now is, you know, I have, we work closely with the labs, a bunch of the people I worked with at Brain, DeepMind, and Meta are at these labs, and so, you know, keeping up with everyone that way.
$40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:20 Claire Zhao I had brands like Vanta, Perplexity, Meta, like, all of them knocking on my door being like, please, can you share what we're building with our audiences in, you know, formal partnership?
SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1% · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:57 Justin Fishner-Wolfson I think the insight that we had, if you kind of roll back the clock to like, 20 11, that was right before Facebook had gone public, and you know, our belief was companies were gonna stay private longer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:26 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And I remember there was, like, there were, like, funny dynamics from, from Facebook, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:49 Justin Fishner-Wolfson I think that's fine, but like I look back at, you know, sort of what, you know, what Peter did with Facebook, you know, I think a lot of the reason that he originally did that deal was because most people wanted a much higher ownership…
Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:07 Jaimin Rangwalla The biggest of the mag seven was Meta in 2012. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 Jaimin Rangwalla So the biggest of the Mag-Seven was Meta in 2012, IPO'd around a hundred billion dollars.
- ▶ 33:14 Jaimin Rangwalla Like everyone wanted to go to the, everyone wanted to go meet the, the Facebook CEO and everyone want to meet the Google CEO.
- ▶ 38:47 Jaimin Rangwalla And so if you look at the multiples of Microsoft, of Amazon, of Meta, they've actually all compressed in the last couple of years because their capex is going up.
300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:30 Kyle Harrison But the way that they come together is very much after, um, Palmer gets fired from Facebook.
- ▶ 1:22:32 Kyle Harrison And there are stories of, you know, Palmer had a lot of engineers he'd worked with at Meta, um, who, he said, hey, I think you were dealt unjustly, and whatever you build next, I'd love to follow you.
The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:03 Ben Miller I don't believe the story that venture people somehow invest in Facebook and they're the genius.
- ▶ 0:12 Ben Miller If I invested in Amazon or Meta today, no one would think I'm a genius, but mostly the person who built the business, 99%, is the business builder.
- ▶ 3:04 Ben Miller Like, don't believe the story that venture people, like, somehow, they invest in Facebook, and they're the genius. 2 times in the scene
How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 25:59 Steve Huffman We're like a year younger than Facebook.
Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 54:58 Alex Bouaziz Whether it's her still at Meta, whether it's her leading Instacart for, like, very rough time, whether it's her not open AI and kind of, like, figuring out the business life.
Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:40 Alex Immerman Fast forward to today, the enterprise business has customers like Meta and Salesforce and Deutsche Telekom.
Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 13:16 Gilly Raanan So you switch over to Meta.
Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:51 Kaz Nejatian Okay, like the day I joined, I remember when I joined Shopify in 2019, I left Facebook to join Shopify.
- ▶ 27:43 Molly O'Shea There's a really good one with Anthony Pompliano, and you were talking about how you sold the company, I think it was to Facebook, and you join, and you're cursing around, you know, you're, you're dropping F-bombs left and right, and…
Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:56 Geoffrey Woo Like, I mean, just my story, like I had an opportunity when I was graduating computer science at Stanford to do my PhD at Princeton, joined Facebook as a software engineer, or I got into Y Combinator, and that got me down the…
How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 12:07 Didi Das There was this Facebook group of a bunch of, like, high school kids applying to college.
- ▶ 24:22 Didi Das Um, the same thing with, like, Facebook.
- ▶ 58:19 Molly O'Shea I mean, we saw this with Facebook.
- ▶ 59:39 Didi Das Like, so it's not like when people tell me I'm so surprised at the meta layoffs or the Google layoffs or whatever company layoffs, I'm like, well, do you know the people who work there?
Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:22 Molly O'Shea And Meadow was here before? 2 times in the scene
Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:48 Michael Mignano You know, it's, it's Ben Thompson, I think, made an interesting comment about Meta's Vibes app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:14 Michael Mignano You've got Google, you've got Meta, um, you've got NVIDIA.
Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 47:23 Philip Clark And so I'd be very surprised if in the near term we were talking about an after open AI, you know, is there an after meta or an after Google?
How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:01 David Ulevitch Palmer Luckey, a few years earlier, had left Meta, um, had been accused of, like, being some, like, major right-wing financier.
How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:57 Ryan Serhant That's what we started doing on YouTube and on Instagram and Facebook, and we started building an early, early audience, just really attacking our, our niche, and it's just grown since then.
- ▶ 24:46 Molly O'Shea Meta's strategy
Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 13:11 Michael Barton And so if you think about like two years ago, what did I think Meta's revenues were going to be? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 Michael Barton I have a model for Meta for what I believe they're going to do in revenue and EBIT and profit and earnings and free cash flow out to 2031 right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:48 Michael Barton Like, Facebook is a, I think like, it's close to, it's like a two trillion dollar, it's a two trillion dollar company. 3 times in the scene
Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:09 Molly O'Shea And customers that include OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropik, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, and I'm sure a lot more.
- ▶ 3:13 Molly O'Shea A network of four million engineers and customers that include OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropoc, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, and I'm sure a lot more.
- ▶ 3:37 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, we work with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, anybody that's building a Frontier Foundation model, we are probably working with them already.
- ▶ 7:25 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, this requires that human to do data analysis, uh, to do A-B tests, uh, use tools like Facebook's performance marketing dashboard, LinkedIn's performance marketing dashboard, analyze which campaigns do well, and based on that, like,…
- ▶ 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.
Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Vibe Coding, AI Valuations & the Supercycle | Navin Chaddha, Mayfield · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:25 Navin Chaddha And then there is Meta, which is a consumer company, but most of the value right now is in hardware and systems companies or cloud providers.
Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:09 Molly O'Shea Meta.
- ▶ 6:13 Molly O'Shea Meta.
Inside the $750B+ Thiel Fellowship · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:11 Danielle Strachman My colleague, Michael is one of the first people to put a Facebook post out about Ethereum and one of our biggest financial mistakes, but I don't, I don't really view it quite that way because, you know, we were, uh, at the, at a… 2 times in the scene
Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:17 Apoorv Agrawal You mentioned Meta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39 Apoorv Agrawal Social, Meta, one point actually in the market cap. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:24 Molly O'Shea You'll see it from the open AI side, but also the meta superintelligence team. 6 times in the scene
Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 28:00 Sophia Amoruso These, there's two sisters in Seattle who used to be, um, Facebook engineers working on the messaging product.
Carta CEO Henry Ward on Raising $1B, Path to ~$500M ARR, & the Move into PE · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:53 Henry Ward So you, you win this small, um, market, but you win it very quickly, and then you concentrically grow out of it, and it's the, Peter Thiel uses the Facebook example, uh, uh, you know, Facebook started on college campuses. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:31 Henry Ward Here's what they did over at Facebook or here or whatever.
How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 46:31 Samir Vasavada It was way more than 70 people, but we hired a lot of managers, like senior executives, people that had come from companies like Meta or Dropbox or others where they'd been used to having 102 103 hundred person organizations.
Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:36 Molly O'Shea I mean, he's now a part of the super intelligence team at Meta.
- ▶ 50:43 Rune Kvist I think people are still losing their minds over their salaries that Meta is willing to pay, but it is a direct consequence of taking this worldview really seriously, that in 10 years everything looks unrecognizable, and that whoever's on…
Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:36 Art Levy Whenever Meta is about to lose a step, he just acquires to solve the problem.
- ▶ 20:34 Art Levy And basically I think that what's happening now is the consolidators, the Googles, the metas, the, you know, open AI is rapidly becoming one of these companies is sort of saying, Hey, like,
- ▶ 22:48 Molly O'Shea So one really good example of this, I'm so happy you brought this up, uh, is the meta scale AI deal. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Art Levy We can actually just use meta for all these examples. 4 times in the scene
Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:13 Brian Kim Snapchat's beginning at Stanford campus was, you know, they had a very specific utilization element.
- ▶ 33:51 Brian Kim There's a time like, uh, even go back, what, like six months where if you look at Facebook posts, they're commenting heavily on AI generated, you know, houses and like, ah, this is so beautiful.
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 41:07 Molly O'Shea In particular, in this conversation, you guys were talking about the Meta deal and, um, how Meta's been trying to poach some of OpenAI's talent, and then also this Metascale AI scenario. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:25 Jack Altman You know, if you think that if you're meta and you think another trillion dollars can be unlocked by a particular team, your willingness to pay is very, very high for that.
How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 51:16 John Andrew Yeah, so about 35% of our bookings come from higher cost channels, so think like Google and Facebook.
How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:02 Jack Sharky Cameron and Steven started working together when they were very young, around 13 or 14, they met in a Facebook group building sneaker bots, um, and they kind of went through that whole trajectory too. 2 times in the scene
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:26 Leigh Marie Braswell I get on Facebook Messenger.
SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:21 Christian Garrett Forced to go public because of hitting the shareholder count number, which used to be 500, um, the jobs act extended that to 2000, uh, Facebook's invention of double trigger RSUs, uh, also extended that, which basically allowed people to…
- ▶ 5:23 Christian Garrett So Facebook was the first company to stay private a long time and, uh, and grow in the private markets and, uh, really sought opportunity to, um, build a firm around capturing what was kind of the bet of the firm, which was that companies… 2 times in the scene
Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:03 Dylan Diamond And that was all word of mouth spread, and you, you remember posting your schedule on Facebook and being able to like and comment if you have classes with people, doing it then on your story,
How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 46:19 Gordon Ritter We do it on Facebook or on Instagram, on TikTok, and we're not looking for protecting it.
Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:58 Molly O'Shea So we have Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple. 2 times in the scene
America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:31 Jason Fiedler Facebook hacks were, were huge and everyone was struggling to acquire customers digitally.
Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:30 Sam D'Amico Um, and so, and, and then ended up staying there after graduation, um, for, for a bit before joining Oculus, like, as they were getting acquired by Facebook. 2 times in the scene
Computer Science is 'So Hot Right Now' | Grace Isford, Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:24 Grace Isford So, NYU Silver Lab, that's like, it's a top AI lab that feeds a ton of folks to meta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Grace Isford They actually spun out of Meta.
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 49:32 John Coogan They go to work at SpaceX and Meta.
- ▶ 1:06:07 John Coogan Apple app trap app tracking transparency, like Facebook doesn't work anymore.
Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 45:05 Mark Suster And of course, that's a great outcome if Google, Facebook, Amazon, Nvidia, whoever can buy your company.
Hunter Walk, Homebrew & Screendoor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 46:51 Hunter Walk So we have to hire people from Facebook very fast.
Founder of Fundera (Nerdwallet) & GroupMe (Skype/Microsoft) Path to VC | Jared Hecht, USV · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 5:08 Jared Hecht Like Facebook, um, came about, I guess my senior year of high school and really started taking off my freshman year of college, Twitter around halfway through or towards the end of college.
Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 44:47 Molly O'Shea You have DeepMind, you have, um, Meta, you have now, like, OpenAI and all these people, and a lot of talent left those companies to go start their own companies, and then now we're seeing that start to deflate, and those companies get… 2 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Understanding Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Other Outliers in Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 38:52 Morgan Housel And I think the, the amazing businesses that stand out over time, the, the massive successes, Microsoft, Facebook, they got both of them, right? 2 times in the scene
Nick Abouzeid, Rivet: Growth "Hacking" Myths, What Worked at Ramp, & Better Tax Services · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:04 Nick Abouzeid Um, oh, they have to know, uh, the tool that I don't know about in order to make my Facebook ads better than yours, or, oh, they have to have a contract or someone, this contractor, you're going to pay them 10 grand and all your numbers… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:34 Nick Abouzeid Um, oh, they have to know a tool that I don't know about in order to make my Facebook ads better than yours. 2 times in the scene
David Weisburd, 10X Capital: Finding Alpha and LP Bias · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:28 David Weisburd So first you, it seems like we're in the infrastructure phase where you have open AI and, and thropic, which were investor and, and other Google, you know, Facebook's going with the open source.
Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:14 Molly O'Shea In terms of these recent earnings reports, uh, whether it's NVIDIA, Alphabet, Microsoft, um, Meta, ServiceNow, are there any, like, solid narratives we can pull from there, um, to kind of help guide us through this hype cycle or the early… 2 times in the scene