Silicon Valley
6 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 27, 2022 by Scott Melker · said 117 times in 61 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Greg Isenberg (52), Julien Smith (17), Jonathan Courtney (5), Sahil Bloom (3), Michael Karnjanaprakorn (3), Dave Friedberg (3), Scott Melker (2), Sarah Lacy (2)
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2026 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2025 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Inside the $50 Trillion AI Gold Rush | Episode 1
- How to make internet money
- Glif AI: The $10 App That Replaces a Full Creative Team
- Vercel's CEO Shares 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job
- Genspark's Super AI Agent is INSANE
- 3 Days in San Francisco's AI Gold Rush
- I quit my job to make $6M/year with AI apps
- Using Google Ads, Heygen AI, Perplexity to make you $$$
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 25 mentions in 18 episodes 1 per episode
- Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding?
- How to meet anyone you want
- 2 $1M+ EdTech Startups you can launch tomorrow
- 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
- How to build a million dollar sales funnel using Facebook Ads
- Inside the Brain of a 17-Year-Old $1M/Month AI Founder
- How to use AI to build your SaaS startup (Lovable, Supabase)
- How to start a Holding Company (full tutorial)
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 32 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- Info Diets, OG Content Creators, and 7-year Lifespans
- How to Turn a Podcast into an Empire
- Status Games, Fame, and the Truth about FIRE
- Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion
- Business ideas worth paying attention to
- Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
- The IRL Tribes That Could Change Your Life
- From Zero to Millions: Danny Postma Reveals AI App Strategies for Success
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 34 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
- Bootstrapping Through A Bear Market with Noah Kagan
- Money, Wealth, and Personal Holding Companies with Michael Karnjanaprakorn
- Anything Is Possible with Dave Friedberg | Where It Happens
- Betting Big on Web3 with Li Jin
- Will Meta Bounce Back? (with Nikita Bier) | Where It Happens | Bonus Episode
- The Wolf of All Streets, Scott Melker | Where It Happens
- Keeping it Real with Danny Trinh
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
Everything said about Silicon Valley, oldest first
Jan 27, 2022 positive
Melker: Web3 Attracts Second Acts Because Incumbents Lack Multi-Decade Advantage
“All these other industries, even tech to a degree, because Silicon Valley is an eighties thing, right? As much as it evolved into what it was, Silicon Valley already had its core. I think everybody's sort of figuring it out together and came to it through some…”
Jan 27, 2022 positive
Bloom: Silicon Valley Tech Is Monocultural Compared To Eclectic Web3
“Like, in, in tech, I lived in San Francisco in the Bay Area for a long time, not anymore, luckily, but there, it's like, it's only really one type of person, and it gets a bad rep for that, but it's like a lot of the tech bro is like what it gets a rep for. Wh…”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Smith: Founders outside Silicon Valley do not understand true startup intensity
“Most people feel like they understand what working at a startup is and what it's like to work in a tech company. But when, if they haven't been in one in Silicon Valley, they really don't know what it feels like. And they don't really know how to work that har…”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Smith: Silicon Valley creates the future through generational tech compounding
“What they do have is they have generations of innovators... So we're talking about generations of technology innovators. That have built layers of technology on top of one another. And so they're gonna see the future much more clearly. And that's why they get …”
Sep 16, 2024 negative
Courtney: Copying Silicon Valley's Anti-Ad Status Games Hurts Small Businesses
“We take a lot of the Silicon Valley status symbols and try to apply these status symbols to small businesses. I think this is what Jason Fried is good at kind of cutting out and getting through the bullshit. A lot of these status symbols, like not running ads,…”