Scale AI

4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2025 by Leigh Marie Braswell · said 170 times in 111 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Molly O'Shea (142), Leigh Marie Braswell (20), Miles Clements (2), Eric Crispin (2), Packy McCormick (1), Matt Miller (1), Mark Bhargava (1), Didi Das (1)

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2026 54 mentions in 51 episodes 1 per episode

Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 6, 2026 · 3 mentions · from 12:53
How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 5, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 16:31
Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention · from 23:11
Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 26, 2026 · 1 mention · from 17:33
Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention · from 28:54
SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2026 · 1 mention · from 24:49
Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention · from 17:54
Inside Harvey AI: CEO Winston Weinberg on How a 4-Year-Old Company Is Taking on the Foundation Labs · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 16, 2026 · 1 mention · from 12:14
43 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →

2025 115 mentions in 59 episodes 2 per episode

Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 2, 2025 · 24 mentions · from 0:48
Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2025 · 22 mentions · from 22:48
Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 10, 2025 · 7 mentions · from 0:40
How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 16, 2025 · 4 mentions · from 3:27
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 27, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 14:51
Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 5, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 11:59
Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 31, 2025 · 1 mention · from 24:44
Jeffrey Katzenberg's $2.8 Billion Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 29, 2025 · 1 mention · from 16:19
51 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →

2024 1 mention in 1 episode

How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq, Kygo & Olivia Dunne | Passes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2024 · 1 mention · from 30:49
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May 2, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Scale AI provided data labeling for OpenAI's GPT-2

“We actually helped OpenAI with GPT too.”

Leigh Marie Braswell May 2, 2025 ▶ 43:58 Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

May 2, 2025 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Scale AI used in-office poker games as a core recruiting strategy

“At scale, we hired so many people. That was our strategy. We would bring people in the office to play poker and then, you know, like, they would get to know us and things like that.”

Leigh Marie Braswell May 2, 2025 ▶ 1:00:08 Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

May 2, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Braswell: Scale AI originally operated as an API for human labor

“Scale was the API for human labor back then.”

Leigh Marie Braswell May 2, 2025 ▶ 41:04 Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Jul 10, 2025 neutral

Assertion Partly supported

Scale AI was Brex's first customer and received a hand-delivered card

“So Scale AI was our first customer. Pedro and Enrique hand delivered the card to Alex in their offices.”

Art Levy Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 1:20:42 Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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