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What Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Says About Artificial Intelligence
29 episodes about artificial intelligence
Interviews with top investors & CEOs.
Key Insights on Artificial Intelligence
AI democratization hinges on whether five big companies control systems or if new architectures enable broader access and competition
- Ken Griffin reversed from AI skeptic to believer, reporting 15-25% productivity boosts at Citadel using AI for high-skilled finance work previously requiring weeks
- Microsoft AI CEO predicts 18 months for all white-collar work automation, while Anthropic's CEO forecasts 10% overall and 50% entry-level unemployment
- College graduates are booing AI mentions at commencement speeches, reflecting anxiety about job displacement from technology whose architects promise career destruction
- Meta laid off 8,000 employees (10% of staff) while installing screen tracking software allegedly for AI training, creating 'new lows' in company morale
- The AI doom cycle progresses through skepticism, AI psychosis, doom desperation, real-world recalibration, and finally enlightened anxiety
- Economist Alex Emos's What Will Be Scarce explores how human-centric 'relational sectors' may grow as AI automates other work categories
- SpaceX's IPO debut soared 20%, making Elon Musk a trillionaire and signaling massive investor appetite for AI-related companies
Episodes
How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI
Dara Khosrowshahi’s Full Circle Launch: Expedia x Uber
Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor
Inside Figure: The Race to Build Humanoid Robots That Actually Work
100 Years of Military History That Explain Everything About Anduril
Skydio HQ Tour: The $3.5B Bet on American Drone Manufacturing with CEO Adam Bry
Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry
General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Letter | CEO Hemant Taneja
The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard
Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points”
A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage
Applied Intuition: The $15B Physical AI Company (You Should Know)
How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners
The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX)
How Reddit Built a $2.2B Business While Other Social Platforms Struggled
Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook
Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, ElevenLabs, Kalshi
Coatue on Navigating AI Volatility in Public Markets
Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: $10T Companies Are Coming
Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7
$155M in 10 Months: The Industrial Software Startup Powering Defense Tech
$1.9B AUM. 200+ Investments. 54 Exits. Inside M13
Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian
Sam Altman’s Answer to Bots
How Elon Builds Trillion-Dollar Companies
CEO Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's Record Year (+200%, ~$100B Market Cap)
How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund
Elad Gil on the 2000 Dot-Com Crash & the Coming AI Shakeout
Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt
Books on artificial intelligence
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