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Bry: Skydio serves 4,000 customers including every US military branch
“We're right around 4000 customers. These are enterprise government agencies that are using the products. So this is every branch of the Department of War, number of allies around the world, 1200 public safety agencies across the country, almost every State Dep…”
Adam Bry Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 3:23 Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bry: Skydio generates hundreds of millions annually producing thousands of drones
“It's already, you know, thousands of drones a month, hundreds of millions of dollars a year in, in revenue.”
Adam Bry Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 4:02 Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Bry: Skydio drones can be summoned via Axon body camera button
“So, you know, the drone can fly to the location of a body camera, so an officer can just push a button on their body camera. If they're in trouble, they'll summon a drone to get there, and then after it lands, it'll upload the footage to Axon's evidence.com pr…”
Adam Bry Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 13:57 Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Contradicted
Abraham: Charles Schwab hasn't been disrupted because it doubled in five years
“Schwab hasn't actually been disrupted yet, really, because that company actually, you know, still doubled in the last five years.”
Leif Abraham Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 2:31 The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Abraham confirms Public has billions in assets and doubling revenue
“I think I asked you, and I was wondering what your numbers were, and you said millions of users, billions of assets, billions of trading volume, and revenue doubling every year. [916] Molly O'Shea: So is that [917] Leif Abraham: That is accurate.”
Leif Abraham Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 15:06 The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Abraham: Public's top AI-generated asset basket is defense stocks, up 350%
“The, I think the best performing generated asset on the platform right now is defense and Weapons manufacturers. One that is like up 350% in the last month. Or something, you know.”
Leif Abraham Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 23:30 The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Contradicted
Abraham: Average financial advisor age is roughly 60 and rising yearly
“The average age of financial advisor goes up by, you know, a year every year. I think the average age is actually roughly 60 or so already, you know”
Leif Abraham Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 29:52 The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Abraham: Public's internal AI agent autonomously converts Jira tickets into frontend code
“There's one agent called Cody, which is like, basically like a frontend engineer that we have that can literally turn a Jira ticket into perfect code that just, it's, you know, sets for an engineer to review and merge, and like, it's autonomously just working …”
Leif Abraham Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 1:02:56 The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Happi: Exowatt operates the world's largest indoor solar simulator
“This is the largest solar simulator of its kind in the world, so it's state-of-the-art, and what that means is we essentially have the sun indoors, so that allows us to do 24 seven testing.”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 11:57 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Happi: Hyperscalers plan $1 trillion in data center capex
“Like the, Google's of the world and so and so forth. They're planning on investing a trillion dollars in capex and data centers over the next couple of years.”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 27:01 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Exowatt has raised about $140M over the last two years
“So in total, we've raised about a hundred and forty million dollars over the last two years, and it's been great.”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 30:26 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Happi: Labor shortages are now the biggest bottleneck for data centers
“So the biggest kind of challenge for data centers today is are there aren't enough construction workers to build a data center. So you have to like import people from other states to a site to build a data center. And being an electrician these days is actuall…”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 35:06 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Happi: Completed data centers create very few ongoing maintenance jobs
“Data centers build out itself creates some construction jobs, but after it's built, there's not a lot of jobs that, that are required to maintain it.”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 39:20 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Affirm Mobilized 1,200 Employees to Manually Review 800,000 Shopify Merchants
“They just signed his giant deal with us, like, all right, so we have 1200 employees, 800,000 merchants, I'm just going to give everyone 700 and something merchants to review manually. And so for like a week with no sleep, people are just like manually reviewin…”
Max Levchin Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 22:10 Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Half of Americans Carry Revolving Credit Card Balances
“Half the country revolves on their credit cards, which means that they're paying interest over and above what they could pay back to their credit card issuer that month.”
Max Levchin Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 57:12 Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Affirm Completed Its IPO Preparation in Under Three Months
“Going public, most people will tell you it's this long protracted affair and it's so hard and it's actually not like we decided to go public in September. We were basically ready with everything by November in December of 20, 20”
Max Levchin Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 1:07:31 Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Younis: 18 of top 20 global automakers use Applied Intuition
“Of the top 20 global automakers, 18 are our customers, so vast majority of the industry is using some components here to, You know, modernize their actual products from just tooling to the full operating system to intelligent cabin to autonomy.”
Qasar Younis Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 5:10 A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Ludwig: Applied Intuition Is Remotely Controlling Patrol Boats in the Ocean
“We have actual boats out in the ocean which we are remotely controlling and doing a patrol operation.”
Peter Ludwig Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 10:53 A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Partly supported
Younis: Applied Intuition operates driverless trucks in Japan right now
“We are, we have driverless trucks running in Japan right now.”
Qasar Younis Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 18:46 A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Ludwig: Applied Intuition retrofitted Army vehicles for autonomous driving in 10 days
“In 10 days, we had a very small team retrofit our vehicle operating system and our SDS, or self-driving system, onto the vehicles, and then yeah, at 10 days, we showed them a video of these infantry squad vehicles driving autonomously out, out in a test enviro…”
Peter Ludwig Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 20:36 How Applied Intuition Reached $15B (Without Spending $1B) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Baszucki: Roblox has $6.8B in bookings, under 4% of global gaming
“We are, you know, at 6.8 billion in bookings, we're literally under four percent of the global gaming market.”
David Baszucki Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 7:19 How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baszucki: Major Short-Form Video Platform Reports 1/3 of Gaming Content Is Roblox
“I was just at GDC, the Game Developers Conference last night. I was talking to some representatives from one of the big four short form video platforms, and they said a third of the gaming content on their platform is Roblox content.”
David Baszucki Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 27:13 How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Baszucki: Roblox provides continuous glucose monitors to its employees
“We, our employees get CGMs, for example, so they can watch their blood sugar, kind of monitor that,”
David Baszucki Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 39:03 How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Partly supported
O'Shea: OpenAI's $110B round comprised roughly one-third of 2025 tech funding
“OpenAI just raised a hundred and ten billion dollar round. I think that amounted to about a third of all funding in the private markets for tech in 2025.”
Molly O'Shea Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 17:35 The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
O'Shea: PitchBook data shows 40% of unicorns haven't raised in three years
“40% of unicorns have not raised capital in three plus years.”
Molly O'Shea Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 52:48 The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Partly supported
Miller says Fundrise reduced headcount from 350 to 200 employees
“For us, for sure, we were 350 people. Now we're 200 people. I mean, every, every month we can do more with less people.”
Ben Miller Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 59:18 The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Huffman: Reddit had over 60% revenue growth for five straight quarters
“So we've had revenue growth over 60% for five quarters in a row.”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 6:08 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Huffman: Reddit achieved GAAP profitability in its first year post-IPO
“And we were able to get to gap profitability in our first year out a little bit ahead of schedule.”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 6:13 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huffman: No content becomes popular on Reddit without community voting
“Even where Reddit has algorithms at the end of the day, nothing can become popular on Reddit without a community of people within the context of their values voting on it and making it popular.”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 41:40 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bouaziz: Deel spent only $350k before raising Series A
“When we got to our Series A, we had actually only spent, like, Or 350 K.”
Alex Bouaziz Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 6:42 Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Deel reached $100 million in ARR within its first 20 months
“Applying that over the first, like, 18 months and 20 months, I think that's when we hit a hundred million”
Alex Bouaziz Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 8:48 Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Bouaziz: Exactly 50% of Deel's revenue comes from non-US companies
“50% of our revenues come from American companies, but the other 50% of our revenues come from European companies, Latin American companies, APAC-based companies”
Alex Bouaziz Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 21:06 Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bouaziz: 10% of Deel's revenue comes from inorganic acquisitions
“If you look at deal, 10% of our revenue is inorganic, right, from acquisition, right?”
Alex Bouaziz Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 30:29 Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Immerman: Waymo is scaling to over 20 new cities this year
“They're scaling to over 20 new cities this year.”
Alex Immerman Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 7:49 Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Immerman: Meta, Salesforce, Deutsche Telekom, and Revolut build on ElevenLabs
“Fast forward to today, the enterprise business has customers like Meta and Salesforce and Deutsche Telekom. They announced Revolut last week. These are massive companies that are building agents on top of their platform.”
Alex Immerman Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 20:40 Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Immerman: A lot of Kalshi's volume comes from sports
“And today a lot of Cal shoes volume does come from sports. There's no hiding that.”
Alex Immerman Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 27:44 Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Immerman: 150 companies hit $100M revenue annually today versus 15 in 2009
“Today, we believe that's like 10 x larger, like a 150 every year.”
Alex Immerman Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 40:28 Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Immerman: No books by a16z partners were ghostwritten
“None of these books were ghostwritten.”
Alex Immerman Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 44:43 Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Raanan: Sequoia held a 'how can we do better' meeting post-Google IPO
“A day after the Google IPO, which was back then the biggest financial event for Sequoia, there was a whole, all hands meeting at the office with the title of how can we do better?”
Gilly Raanan Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 1:28:58 Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laffont: Anthropic grew materially between fundraising kickoff and announcement
“What was interesting about this one is the projections and the scale of the business grew materially. In between the fundraising kind of being discussed to eventually kind of being announced. And I think that speaks to just the incredible adoption of clock cod…”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 2:31 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Partly supported
Laffont: Broadcom grows at 40% while trading cheaper than SaaS companies
“Avago, as an example, is growing almost 40%, right, Avago Broadcom, and it's trading at a cheaper multiple of gap earnings.”
Thomas Laffont Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 12:12 Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7 · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Morton: Revel increased Impulse Space's engine test throughput 5x to 10x
“So impulse, the first big deployment was actually their rocket engine test site, which was like their kind of big burning need at the time. And they previous software, it was kind of one of the legacy solutions. They were testing about once every other day and…”
Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 5:28 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Nejatian: Opendoor is one of America's most broadly held public companies
“Opendoor is one of the most broadly held companies in America.”
Kaz Nejatian Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 5:49 Inside Opendoor HQ on Earnings Day (Office Tour + Live Stream) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nejatian: Opendoor Built and Launched Mortgage Product in 10 Weeks
“It took us 10 weeks. What was the first line of code? January fifth. January fifth till February, whatever the fuck date today is.”
Kaz Nejatian Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 31:51 Inside Opendoor HQ on Earnings Day (Office Tour + Live Stream) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Contradicted
Nejatian: Short sellers predicted Shopify would go bankrupt within 12 months in 2019
“Cause like back then Shopify was very broadly shorted. Like the day I joined, there was a short solid report that came out calling, saying Shopify would go bankrupt in 12 months.”
Kaz Nejatian Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 3:06 Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Blania: World has 37 million users, 17 million Orb-verified
“So we're not, I think, thirty-seven million users total. Seventeen million of which are verified, so they used one of these orbs.”
Alex Blania Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 8:26 99.9% of the internet is about to be AI? · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Blania: OpenAI invested directly into Merge Labs, not via venture fund
“It's a direct investment from OpenAI, not the venture arm, and so it is an actual collaboration”
Alex Blania Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 41:33 99.9% of the internet is about to be AI? · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Woo: Anti Fund meets with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on roadmap
“Because, like, you're sitting down with Mark Chen, the chief research officer of OpenAI, talking about, like, the roadmap and the future models that they're working on.”
Geoffrey Woo Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 11:35 Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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