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What Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Says About Communication
33 episodes about communication
Interviews with top investors & CEOs.
Key Insights on Communication
The person asking questions actually controls and directs the conversation, not the one giving answers
- Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication
- Future brain-to-brain communication could bypass language limitations, enabling direct neural activity transmission between individuals
- "Weird wins" - startups can thrive building products touching disagreement, persuasion, and sexuality that big tech committees explicitly avoid due to brand risk
- People who get prenups usually don't get divorced, suggesting the vulnerable conversation required builds relationship skills
- Communication and education help average people access medical wisdom and research they wouldn't otherwise have
- Tucker Carlson allegedly under DOJ investigation for back-channel communications with Iranian IRGC officials via text
- Case revealed terabytes of MSS officer communications, emails, and classified documents for first time in US history
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)
Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office
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
Zipline: The World’s Largest Drone Company You’ve Never Heard Of Just Raised $600M+
CEO Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's Record Year (+200%, ~$100B Market Cap)
Inside the Minds of the Greatest Founders | David Senra
$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund
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