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Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III Sep 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine Aug 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16:05 Molly O'Shea I was just listening to David's interview with, uh, Mickey Malka, and Mickey Malka was talking about how Silicon Valley lost the ability to make beautiful things.

Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 27, 2026 · 1 mention

BlackRock's Tony Kim on AI's Next Winners? Chips, Memory, Robotics & Quantum · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 24, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:19 Tony Kim And the capitalization, uh, in Silicon Valley has changed.
  • ▶ 39:42 Tony Kim And, uh, I don't know, I don't understand why people, you know, it's called Silicon Valley for a reason. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:32 Molly O'Shea Um, it's been interesting to see, because I cover high, a lot of high growth companies in Silicon Valley.

David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:01 David Friedberg And he used to be the moderate Silicon Valley guy who would go around to all the tech CEOs and founders and VCs and be like, hey, give me your money.
  • ▶ 34:35 David Friedberg Your show's got great viewership in Silicon Valley, but I don't know if it's gonna affect the, um, I don't know if people are gonna stay tuned in this far.

Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22 Molly O'Shea I was telling people about everyone that we're interviewing this week, and it just like, okay, where can you interview all the top Silicon Valley CEOs?

AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:20 Molly O'Shea We're here in Europe and there's a nice convergence of European tech and American and Silicon Valley, everything that's converging over here.
  • ▶ 29:25 unnamed speaker Uh, worked with Harry Stebbings at TwentyVC for two years, and now we're working with venture capitalists and, and CEOs and investors across the, you know, Silicon Valley landscape.

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

  • ▶ 31:46 Molly O'Shea With a hundred million dollars in total capital raised to date, you have collected some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, from Sean McGuire of Sequoia, to Paul Kwan of General Catalyst, to Dellian at Founders Fund, and now Lower…

Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 Andrew Feldman OpenAI, we announced in January a huge partnership, one of the biggest deals done in Silicon Valley history.
  • ▶ 3:10 Andrew Feldman You know, we, we announced in January a huge partnership, one of the biggest deals done in Silicon Valley history.
  • ▶ 8:42 Andrew Feldman For the type of people I love working with, they, they like building stuff, and they like building hard stuff when it paid a little, when it was out of fashion, you know, when, when, when hardware was uncool, they were still building…

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 6, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:33 Molly O'Shea I already made this joke in the last interview because we did one with the early stage team, but walking around South Park, the building is very, it's, it's very unassuming, and then you walk in, and it's like restoration hardware got hit…
  • ▶ 2:04 Molly O'Shea The crazy stuff that's happening in Silicon Valley right now, because things are happening really, really fast.
  • ▶ 13:19 Miles Clements So not only from our office here in Silicon Valley, but across our team in London, across our team in Bangalore.
  • ▶ 51:22 Matt Miller I, I personally, and this is kind of piggybacking Arun's point, but I personally am very excited to start putting some wins on the board for the world of AI outside of our small little bubble here in the valley, in the valley. 2 times in the scene

Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:25 Ev Randle Um, like there's just, it's, it's going to be a shock that's going to impact every single aspect of life, both practical life in Silicon Valley, um, but then also

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

  • ▶ 20:54 Molly O'Shea And just the onslaught of Silicon Valley becoming so big and all these people with like huge equity values.

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

  • ▶ 18:04 Claire Zhao I really felt like my, where I've had success in this space has been playing translator for people who are just starting to think about tech and AI and startups, uh, and make sure that all those stories that we're seeing in Silicon Valley

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

  • ▶ 4:20 Molly O'Shea We're obviously having some major IPOs, whether it's SpaceX, the new S-ones with Anthropic, OpenAI, and a lot of the AI companies here in the Valley, we're in San Francisco right now, with massive valuations and a lot of people that are…

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 7:28 Brian Singerman Everything, you know, Silicon Valley networking, you never know exactly where it happened, but yeah, we became friends and there you go. 5 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 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:03 Eric Romo Um, there's a saying in, in, uh, in the Valley that, uh, you know, startups don't die from, uh, starvation.

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

  • ▶ 45:13 Molly O'Shea What do you, what do you see with Silicon Valley and maybe even the broader market could be upper market?

She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

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

  • ▶ 2:38 Molly O'Shea So today, um, we're going to talk about a couple of things as it relates to policy founders, regulators, and the tech transformation that's going on in DC and Silicon Valley today.

300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:41 Kyle Harrison I mean, Silicon Valley literally was born out of, uh, of the defense industry, right?

Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:00 Adam Bry And it's, it's an ecosystem thing similar to, like, the software ecosystem that exists in Silicon Valley, where you've got great talent, you've got companies that kind of collaborate and work together, and you want the same thing from a…

General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Review | CEO Hemant Taneja · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 20, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Molly O'Shea One of the hot topics around Silicon Valley is General Catalyst's potentially rumored IPO.
  • ▶ 16:04 Hemant Taneja And then how much are the models going to do versus what a big part of the Valley startups have been traditionally, which is enterprise infrastructure?
  • ▶ 25:17 Molly O'Shea You've experienced 25 years of Silicon Valley hype cycles. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:52 Molly O'Shea You're one of the most innovative funds or companies, I guess, in Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 54:06 Molly O'Shea So one of the hot topics around Silicon Valley is General Catalyst's potentially rumored IPO.

Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17:36 Max Levchin Part of why Silicon Valley and California warts and all is a pretty great place is there's such a concentration of really smart people.
  • ▶ 1:18:39 Max Levchin And I think with AI as AI actually perforates all the way down to consumers, like not Silicon Valley people, not like normal people in middle America or middle of the world, just using AI tools for the most basic daily tasks with money. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 1:55 Qasar Younis I feel like if we do that, and we start doing, like, calisthenics in the morning, it's not, it's gonna be a little too off-brand for Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 22:05 Qasar Younis It's not like we just took a bunch of Silicon Valley engineers and put them there. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:51 Qasar Younis Much Midwest as we are Silicon Valley, even though I think when people meet us, you know, we've spent most of our lives in Silicon Valley. 4 times in the scene

How Applied Intuition Reached $15B (Without Spending $1B) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 6, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:17 Qasar Younis Like, it is, like, I think there's some time between, like, the social network and the HBO show, Silicon Valley, it's, and then, like, just us as consumers just adopting smartphones and software becoming a real part of our day-to-day life.
  • ▶ 2:30 Qasar Younis Silicon Valley, like Sunnyvale, went from this cottage industry to suddenly the center of, you know, economic activity 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:35 Qasar Younis These are, like, this, you know, they're the in-folks of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 55:59 Ben Miller Um, I mean, it's funny that, so I'm gonna give you one slight dodge, but mostly no one was asking what happens, what does success look like for AI outside of, outside of Silicon Valley, everyone was asking what would failure look like,…

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

  • ▶ 21:30 Molly O'Shea How does it fit within the broader theme of these Silicon Valley oriented firms? 2 times in the scene

Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 17, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Alex Bouaziz I think we're kind of Silicon Valley outsiders.
  • ▶ 6:23 Alex Bouaziz Um, so we raised that seed round, and we realized, look, it might, you know, we're kind of, I think we're kind of Silicon Valley outsiders, right?
  • ▶ 50:50 Alex Bouaziz I mean, there's a lot, but the one thing I would say is we're Silicon Valley outsider, quote unquote. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:20 Alex Bouaziz And I'm not talking like Silicon Valley brand, like great, like sure.

Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:52 Molly O'Shea You've invested into a lot of Israeli founders and you're not in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:35 Kaz Nejatian Uh, Keith, uh, and Adam, who are, like, probably two of the best investors in Silicon Valley.

99.9% of the internet is about to be AI? · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 16, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 19:03 Alex Blania I was never in the U.S. before, nor ever in Silicon Valley, although I actually, like, I always wanted to come here. 6 times in the scene

Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 11, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Jake Paul You know, coming out to Silicon Valley since I was 17, I feel like it was one of my first loves
  • ▶ 5:05 Jake Paul You know, coming out to Silicon Valley since I was 17. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:21 Jake Paul Even when I first was coming to Silicon Valley, they're like, we're seed investors.
  • ▶ 45:07 Geoffrey Woo One, I think, as a entrepreneur, like, he's a phenomenal entrepreneur, um, prime, fastest growing beverage in history, um, multiple businesses that he's created in over the years, so I think in terms of, one, to me, it's like, aside from,…
  • ▶ 50:56 Geoffrey Woo I think Jake is definitely much more risk on as a human being, but I think that's very fair that Logan is, is on the learning curve in terms of just reps in the field of Silicon Valley and doing investments.

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

  • ▶ 1:28 Molly O'Shea You're becoming an investor in Silicon
  • ▶ 5:40 Didi Das And, and I talk about this a lot, but the gap between like what the Valley thinks about tech and AI and focuses on and what the world cares about, it's pretty vast. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:17 Didi Das Generally, really poor incentives in the Valley.
  • ▶ 59:18 Didi Das Um, uh, where I said something that I thought was the most obvious thing for most engineers in the Valley, which is most engineers don't do shit.

How Brex signed a $5.15B Deal in ~40 Days · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:00 Pedro Franceschi You know, the numbers are private, but you know, people, Silicon Valley is a small world.
  • ▶ 55:24 Pedro Franceschi Lives here in, in Silicon Valley, and he's phenomenal and, uh, incredibly helpful thinking through every single outcome, every single situation.

Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

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

  • ▶ 57:28 David Senra You're, he did this video called The History of Silicon Valley, and I had read at least, by this time, 40 books on that topic, and I learned stuff in that video I didn't know, so that I was like, oh, this guy's serious, because I go through
  • ▶ 1:22:56 David Senra And they wind up as a result, they just happened to be in Silicon Valley at the time.

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

  • ▶ 10:16 Jeffrey Katzenberg Every, uh, couple of years there would be these new, amazing new, uh, innovations coming out of Silicon Valley.

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

  • ▶ 0:03 Trae Stephens When we started Anvil in 2017 as kind of the pariah of Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 1:09 Trae Stephens It's a, it's a much cooler place than most places in Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 2:40 Trae Stephens Yeah, I mean, there's a lot going on in defense tech these days, which is kind of crazy thinking back to when we started Anvil in 2017 as kind of the pariah of Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 6:20 Trae Stephens Um, and you see like in Silicon Valley, even companies that are being started that are attacking each of those layers as well.

Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:57 Molly O'Shea There's like really beautiful combination of private and public sector, Silicon Valley and DC.

What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:30 Molly O'Shea Like we talked about nuclear, like we talked about AI, like there are so many different areas where you're getting the call, the, the connection between Silicon Valley and DC that it seems pretty amicable and it seems like it's actually…

How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:49 David Ulevitch Um, and this is after Silicon Valley had had basically its original founding story and origin of, like, helping the government with the best technology, and now you had a company like Google basically bailing out of supporting the…
  • ▶ 11:02 Molly O'Shea We've seen in the last years, uh, last couple of years, especially with the new administration, this like really great connectivity between Silicon Valley and DC.

CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:03 Andy Lowery So take the knowledge, but now apply it to cots, very simple systems that are easy to build, easy to field, and turn that into more of a Silicon Valley kind of design motion. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:55 Andy Lowery In Silicon Valley, you typically use a heavy sort of leveraged prototype development system.

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

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

Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 11, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 5:14 Ashlee Vance I mean, kind of the progress that they had made, and, um, I think it was like a reminder, it reminded me of, I'm like a Silicon Valley history nerd, and I've been covering semiconductors for a really long time, and sort of was like… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:21 Pete Shadbolt Um, but yeah, finally, I mean, I think the secret is that, as Ashley says, he's a, uh, Silicon Valley history nerd, and that's secretly my number one reason that I was excited to have him come and visit, um, which is that, yeah, I, I mean,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:37 Ashlee Vance Well, there's a thing where you want everything to be perfect, and you're just forever engineering, and I think when I first met the PsyQuantum team, they all had such impressive academic pedigrees, and they were all coming from Australia,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:47 Pete Shadbolt Um, I'll also say like, and Ashley, you might have a view on this from watching Silicon Valley for decades. 2 times in the scene

Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 10, 2025 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 2:31 Pete Shadbolt So, I mean, I came to Silicon Valley
  • ▶ 4:02 Pete Shadbolt Uh, we've been around for a decade, so I've, uh, learned a lot about fundraising and so on in the Valley, uh, over the last 10 years or so. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:12 Pete Shadbolt PsyQuantum is a Silicon Valley startup company, but secretly we're a 19 eighties Silicon Valley chip company, and a big chunk of our DNA and our center of mass is a semiconductor chip company, like where we spend most of the money. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:00 Pete Shadbolt And I just think it's exciting that Silicon Valley and the world is still doing this kind of thing, like, and actually seems to be increasingly understanding that
  • ▶ 46:27 Pete Shadbolt I think it's probably like I wasn't there for it, but I imagine this is how memory technologies went in the sort of nineties in Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 1:02:26 Pete Shadbolt Uh, a few hundred people, and we were, like, crammed into this 10,000 square foot space where we've, like, ripped out the whiteboards and the coffee machines and put in, like, 300 millimeter wafer tester, like classic Silicon Valley.
  • ▶ 1:04:30 Pete Shadbolt Yeah, so people live in Silicon Valley their whole life. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:39:16 Pete Shadbolt Back to the eighties, uh, Silicon Valley hardware company, DNA, uh, bad coffee, polystyrene ceiling tiles, dilapidated former conference rooms converted to lab space. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:45:02 Pete Shadbolt And that's what Silicon Valley companies do as part of the value proposition of a startup is that we're willing to try to do things extremely quickly.
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