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RKLB Factory Tour: Satellites, Spacecraft & Mission Control Aug 26, 2026 · 1 mention

The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense Aug 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:30 Soren Monroe-Anderson I mean, I think, like, what I've seen is every high-growth startup has the same problem, and especially LA hardware companies.
  • ▶ 42:11 Soren Monroe-Anderson Um, I, I'd say today, like, I, I, you, you mentioned the group here in, in El Segundo or, or South Bay in LA, um,

David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:04 Molly O'Shea Like, we were, we were in this company, it's a wire harness company, alumni from SpaceX, they're down in LA, and it's called Center Systems.

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

SpaceX's Former CIO: "Never Worked Harder in My Life" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:21 Ken Venner In Hawthorne, downtown LA-ish, and here they are building big metal objects. 2 times in the scene

Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 15, 2026 · 1 mention

Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:54 Mark Pincus No responsible corporation would ever allow a founder to do, um, to serious things like, you know, deciding he wanted to create a tunnel boring company while he was stuck in traffic in LA, and we all have those thoughts, those moments.
  • ▶ 17:02 Molly O'Shea I'm in LA way too much.

SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2026 · 11 mentions

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 2:24 Molly O'Shea You have another facility here in LA, but right now, I'd love for you to walk us through and tour Impulse for us.

Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 2, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 17:17 Eric Romo You get to, you get GEO, you get to park over one spot on Earth, you get to park over LA, and I just stay there. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:23 Molly O'Shea We're in Southern California, specifically LA, and there's a ton of space companies here now.
  • ▶ 39:57 Eric Romo Um, and the rest of us would fly in, ah, and spend 10 days there, and, you know, work for 10 days, and then we'd come back to L.A. for four days, and we'd do that over and over and over again, and we, and I did that for like nine, ah, 12… 3 times in the scene

"We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 1, 2026 · 1 mention

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

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:23 Brett Adcock And, uh, I have a team in Pasadena, right next to Jeff Pulsion Lab in LA, and we're funding that.

The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:26 Molly O'Shea When I was meeting with Carly at your very cool property on West Adams in LA, and when I was talking to you beforehand, she and you were both talking about how you got allocation in the companies and essentially won them over because you…

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:04 Molly O'Shea I, I've talked to several people in LA pertaining to this IPO. 2 times in the scene

Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:27 Alex Immerman And own and operate cities like in San Francisco and Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene

Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 11, 2026 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 25:48 Alfred Lin Um, they don't fit what we call central casting because we're in LA, you know, whatever.

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

99.9% of the internet is about to be AI? · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:14 Alex Blania So I started working on that topic, and then I went to Caltech in Los Angeles and continued my research there.

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

  • ▶ 0:17 Molly O'Shea I was flying in from LA, going into JSX, and I saw this gorgeous gray plane parked on the runway, and it had this really interesting logo on it, and I was like, hmm, that looks so familiar.
  • ▶ 1:50 Molly O'Shea I was flying in from L.A., going into JSX, and I saw this gorgeous gray plane parked on the runway, and it had this really interesting logo on it, and I was like, hmm, that looks so familiar.

Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 28, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 35:57 Molly O'Shea In LA, this is gonna be the biggest wealth creation event in a very long time. 3 times in the scene

I Tried Flying an Air Taxi With Archer’s CEO (Midnight Simulator) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 17, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:36 Adam Goldstein We were selected as the exclusive air taxi provider for the LA-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • ▶ 3:07 Adam Goldstein I think actually Los Angeles, within Los Angeles, will be selected as one of them. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:01 Adam Goldstein Archer is the twenty-twenty-eight Los Angeles Summer Olympic sponsor.

Jeffrey Katzenberg's $2.8 Billion Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:13 Molly O'Shea I mean, I'm from LA, and so I met Anthony a couple years ago at this point, and the convergence of creativity and storytelling and venture was just so natural to me, and I thought it was like an incredible superpower and also entirely…

Full Anduril R&D Tour: Matt Grimm, Co-Founder & COO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:56 Matt Grimm We are here at Andrell's headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, in Orange County, just south of LA.

Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:55 Matt Grimm We are here at Anderle's headquarters in Costa Mesa, California in Orange County, just south of LA.

What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:45 Bradley Tusk Um, you know, we were talking before the podcast about like, you live in LA. 2 times in the scene

How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

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

  • ▶ 20:54 Molly O'Shea Yeah, I've tweeted this out before where, I mean, I, I definitely feel the energy of certain cities when I'm in them, and you feel the influence and the weight of, like, the legacy and everything infrastructurally that's built it, that…

Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 12, 2025 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 25:02 Molly O'Shea I mean, I, I talked to some of the crew, there was an event around Milken in LA and

The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 7, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 16:30 Adam Goldstein You can imagine there was a, a fleet of 50, just making this up, but 50, you know, drone versions of the aircraft in LA during the fires that could have helped fight in that, that, that, that, you know, those fires. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:56 Adam Goldstein So as an example, if you are 20 miles outside of LA, there's desert. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:30 Billy Talheimer Like we're in one now, Boston's one, New York and Miami and LA and San Francisco.
  • ▶ 55:07 Mitch Lee We've got a 150,000 square foot facility in Torrance, California, in Los Angeles, California, and our manufacturing boats out of it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:01 Molly O'Shea Brett's in LA.

Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:00 Sophia Amoruso Like, had I, had he been in Italy and I lived in LA, it would have been a family vacation to fly over there.

Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention

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

Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:40 Chris Power Um, so, you know, our factory in LA, which is about a 100,000 square foot, uh, we basically filled it in a year, um, from all that customer growth.
  • ▶ 19:07 Chris Power Uh, they could shut down LA water pretty quickly and everyone would, you know, uh, be in a really pet position.

Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:30:43 Art Levy Love the product, and it recently came to Los Angeles, as you probably know. 2 times in the scene

Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:32 Jacob Peters Like, when I literally go to the airport, I flew into LA the other day, uh, I'd like, I see people who clearly have fatty liver, you know, clearly have way too high of a toxin load, clearly have, you know, cortisol and just too high of,…

Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 18, 2025 · 5 mentions

SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:42 Molly O'Shea Like, it's truly exciting, especially here in LA, because we're, like, very close to it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:36 Christian Garrett Positions are, you know, across all these cities, um, uh, San Francisco, uh, um, New York, New York and LA.

How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq, Kygo & Olivia Dunne | Passes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2024 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Molly O'Shea Well, Lucy, congratulations on moving to LA and this fabulous space. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:32 Molly O'Shea so what brought you to LA? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:27 Molly O'Shea This is just what happens when you're in LA.
  • ▶ 9:47 Molly O'Shea Um, so maybe you've seen more closely the differentiation between traditional talent agencies like we have in LA, we're just surrounded by it, um, versus something next gen, which you're building.
  • ▶ 20:58 Lucy Guo Um, and they're just not plugged into the LA scene like we are.
  • ▶ 26:05 Lucy Guo Maybe this is an LA thing.
  • ▶ 27:33 Lucy Guo So that's what I hate about LA psychics. 2 times in the scene

Inside VC’s Existential Crisis: Jeff Morris Jr. on Surviving & Winning · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 16, 2024 · 12 mentions

Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 51:04 Sam D'Amico There's an, and BYD has a facility that builds, like, all the transit buses down in LA.

Molly Alter, Partner (Northzone), $4B AUM | Software for Hardware, EU vs USA, Vertical AI, VC Biases · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:55 Molly O'Shea One, we might need to like link up with someone in LA and sell your charades, mockumentary series to like Netflix or Amazon, because I feel like that would be really fun to watch.
  • ▶ 34:46 Molly O'Shea To shift more into your areas of investment, uh, your team put out a really interesting piece that caught my eye because, you know, I'm here in LA, I'm right next to Hard Tech World, El Segundo, uh, all of the big companies like Andurl,…

Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with Jordan Noone of Zoo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:30 Jordan Noone Uh, Relativity is now a 1200 person company, raised about 1.2 billion, uh, in private capital, uh, it's headquartered down in Long Beach here in Los Angeles.

Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 28, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:20 Molly O'Shea They're based in Los Angeles and San Francisco and invests heavily in Southern California and in the U.S., Europe, India, and Israel.
  • ▶ 27:35 Molly O'Shea There's a lot of really fun stuff happening in LA with the hard tech community.
  • ▶ 59:01 Molly O'Shea and I can't wait to see you next when I'm in LA.

Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:05 Molly O'Shea You're always jetting around to DC and LA and back and forth, but you just raised a hundred and seventeen million dollar Series B.
  • ▶ 19:20 Chris Power One is the best software and robotics team that's ever existed in LA, period.

Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 15, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:48 Delian Asparouhov Look forward to hanging in LA soon. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:12 Molly O'Shea Um, and you've also built a company in Los Angeles, another beautiful place that I love, but what was your biggest, like, learning, getting that reflection, getting out of the bubble, and, um, into, like, a broad new world?
  • ▶ 40:00 Molly O'Shea To shift back to LA.

Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Xander Oltmann Yeah, so I actually grew up in LA, uh, spent my spare time surfing, and, uh, actually lived in San Francisco for about 13 years, and then just moved back here not that long ago.
  • ▶ 17:32 Molly O'Shea Well, hard tech has seriously taken LA by the reins.
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