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Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine Aug 14, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:51 Adam Foroughi In our world, where the user's sitting and engaging with the ad for such a longer, extended time frame, and the user is just frankly different, the person who's playing a solitaire or mahjong is not the power user scrolling on Instagram… 2 times in the scene

AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:14 unnamed speaker That one went wild on TikTok.

$40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 15, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:43 Claire Zhao Yeah, it's funny because he found me through TikTok, I think, um, which is actually was one of my earliest platforms. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:52 Molly O'Shea On Instagram and TikTok, which is really rare, but also it's like there is a huge difference in people with the expertise of the industries coming on and making stuff and explaining it out.
  • ▶ 10:20 Molly O'Shea Yeah, going the route of Instagram, TikTok is totally different, and it is a completely, it's a more mainstream audience. 2 times in the scene

How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:02 Steve Huffman Uh, YouTube was maybe six months old when we launched, but then, you know, Instagram and TikTok and Snap and Twitter, all these companies came later and grew past us.

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

  • ▶ 17:46 Alex Bouaziz You know, when I first built my first companies, I built, don't ask me why, but I built like a video product, consumer video product, like musically at the time, TikTok style.

Inside Zipline’s Factory: The World’s Largest Drone Delivery Network · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

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

  • ▶ 16:09 Molly O'Shea I've heard that you're doing so well that you're going viral on TikTok all the time.

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

Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 27, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 10:39 Michael Mignano Or have they just figured out a way to go viral on TikTok a few times? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:24 Michael Mignano Like a YouTube, like a TikTok, they need to get a bunch of people creating on one side, and then they need to get a bunch of people creating on the other side.
  • ▶ 22:57 Michael Mignano Kind of the TikTok algorithm, and how the TikTok algorithm was sort of the next phase of media. 3 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 55:25 Bradley Tusk Like look at all the people who are investing in tech talk at a fourteen billion dollar valuation, right?
  • ▶ 1:03:01 Bradley Tusk In this U.S. government, what should happen with the TikTok deal?

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

  • ▶ 12:52 Ryan Serhant There was no TikTok to compete with where people sitting there, like you would watch TV

Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:15 Molly O'Shea So how are these deals one getting structured, whether it's MP materials or Intel, and are you at all concerned about them and whatever happens with TikTok?

Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:36 Philip Ehrenstein The net new talent that comes in that's like addicted to TikTok doesn't care.
  • ▶ 24:52 Philip Ehrenstein We need more people who are willing to put down the phone, turn off TikTok, and get on a production line.
  • ▶ 34:01 Philip Ehrenstein And in a lot of cases, like the net new talent that comes in, that's like addicted to tick tock, um, like doesn't care.

Vibe Coding, AI Valuations & the Supercycle | Navin Chaddha, Mayfield · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:05 Navin Chaddha Versus when TikTok happened, people were talking about, hey, nine months, six months to get that.

Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:33 Keith Rabois Do you have my Instagram influencer asked me once if one of the top like three Instagram or TikTok Instagram influencer types, uh, asked me if he could, uh, it's like, oh my God.

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

  • ▶ 1:50:40 Pete Shadbolt That's a very helpful analogy just to differentiate from PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel and TikTok, right? 2 times in the scene

Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 27, 2025 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 1:28:43 Molly O'Shea Like TikTok-ing our brains with ChatGPT, like, do you read as much? 2 times in the scene

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

Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 22:02 Roy Lee I think the, the first step of the pyramid is, um, Twitter or people on Twitter are about two years behind when it comes to humor compared to people on Instagram, TikTok. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:46 Roy Lee Regular people are on, like, Instagram, TikTok. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:34 Roy Lee You sit down on a phone and you make TikToks about a product.

How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:40 Jack Sharky They put it on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter, whatever the, um, the creator is looking for, and they just submit a link, and we automatically pay them out for their views.

Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 18, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 3:36 Chris Josephs You, Nancy, you know, Nancy, I think will take the crown on that, but, uh, she was one of the portfolios that we came up with, uh, before we pivoted, and she was on the platform, and then everyone was constantly DMing and talking about us… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:49 Chris Josephs Which, for what it's worth, he fully supports banning TikTok, so it's beneficial to, to that, uh, position.
  • ▶ 29:46 Chris Josephs That's what's cool that, I mean, we spend a ton of time and effort on this, but, like, my personal TikTok has 250 K. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:48 Chris Josephs Um, there's a, you probably see it on Twitter all the time, all these kind of young kind of, they call them cracked out engineers, growth hacking TikTok with the faceless videos and yada, yada, yada, and that stuff works. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:40 Chris Josephs And then TikTok is authentic. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:32 Chris Josephs I'm working on a Tik Tok right now that explains this in broader detail.

How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 28, 2025 · 5 mentions

Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:15 Dylan Diamond During the summer months, you know, we reach number two on the entire App Store, number one in productivity, ahead of some great tools like ChatGPT and others, TikTok, um, just because, you know, we focus on the K factor, we focus on the…
  • ▶ 17:33 Dylan Diamond When we were in high school, TikTok wasn't a thing.
  • ▶ 37:39 Dylan Diamond It is a little bit of the antidote to the TikTok problem, which is just you leave high school and you scroll.

How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:19 Gordon Ritter We do it on Facebook or on Instagram, on TikTok, and we're not looking for protecting it.

How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq, Kygo & Olivia Dunne | Passes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 6:39 Lucy Guo If you look at, like, the creators that are doing the best, uh, they're typically posting every single day on passes, but also every single day on Instagram Reels and TikTok. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:00 Molly O'Shea It's much more close to like the TikTok scene, the YouTubers and more, uh, early talent.
  • ▶ 16:13 Molly O'Shea So it's not the typical TikTok early? 2 times in the scene

America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

Zamp's Series A: $14M in 15 Months · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 13, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:57 Rohit Badangay I mean, a few of the folks that we work with today, um, on the e-commerce side, there's folks like CultGaia, uh, which apparently is popping off, uh, according to TikTok. 2 times in the scene

John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:12 John Coogan So I think there's a little bit less of an inclination to just like, even if we like call our friends, our friends are like, you know, like watching barstool and not like on Tik Tok. 2 times in the scene

Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:42 Mark Suster And I just highly recommend it to everyone, because if you're getting your news from TikTok, and you've never spent time in Israel, um, and you're being influenced from Twitter, from people talking about things like genocide, which of…

Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:12 Kyle Harrison And so you see a lot of stuff, you know, on, um, TikTok or Instagram or whatever, if people talking about like, Hey, like I work from nine to five and those are my explicit hours.
  • ▶ 27:18 Molly O'Shea Given the rise of like TikTok and short form content, that makes sense.

Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:56 Delian Asparouhov To, you know, sort of be working, um, in, you know, some deeply technical fields and really pushing the field of engineering forward more so than having people, um, you know, grow up wanting to be like YouTubers or TikTokers, right?
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