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What Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Says About Entrepreneurship
12 episodes about entrepreneurship
Interviews with top investors & CEOs.
Key Insights on Entrepreneurship
"Weird wins" - startups can thrive building products touching disagreement, persuasion, and sexuality that big tech committees explicitly avoid due to brand risk
- CMC (Chemical Manufacturing Controls) work is consistently underinvested in biotech startups, causing deal delays and requiring extensive rework by acquirers
- UK self-driving startup Wave raised $1.2 billion from Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan for London robo-taxi launch
- Small startups deploy AI "magically" while large enterprises struggle with risk-first approaches that prevent meaningful AI adoption
- 95% of LeadEdge's $3.5B fund comes from 800 world-class executives and entrepreneurs who provide sourcing, diligence, and customer introductions
- Peter Thiel invested $2.3 million in DeepMind, seeing Hassabis as an 'authentic missionary entrepreneur' destined for this mission
- SpaceX and Palantir alumni are founding the new wave of defense companies focused on national interest
- Most new crypto startups now build on Base, Arbitrum, or Solana rather than Ethereum mainnet due to better support and incentives
Episodes
How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI
Inside Figure: The Race to Build Humanoid Robots That Actually Work
100 Years of Military History That Explain Everything About Anduril
Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points”
Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office
Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook
$1.9B AUM. 200+ Investments. 54 Exits. Inside M13
Zipline: The World’s Largest Drone Company You’ve Never Heard Of Just Raised $600M+
Inside the Minds of the Greatest Founders | David Senra
$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund
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
Books on entrepreneurship
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