Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

What Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Says About Investing

16 episodes about investing

Interviews with top investors & CEOs.

Key Insights on Investing

Investment matching is crucial - if she's at level 3 and you're acting like level 9, you look anxious and needy

  • FM Investments grew from $0 to $10 billion in assets under management in just over five years by focusing on simple, low-cost Treasury and bond ETFs.
  • FM Investments built an anti-hallucination large language model trained on 1,784 documents to simulate Fed candidate Kevin Warsh's policy positions.
  • Profitability in AI comes from accurately predicting demand rather than underinvesting, with inference margins exceeding 50%
  • The Louisiana Purchase, bought for $340 million in today's money, is now worth at least $60 trillion—a 17,640,000% return on investment
  • Chucky agent acts as an interactive portfolio representative for AI builders, inspired by the job interview scene from Good Will Hunting
  • "First 10 respondents were all no" when asked if they have 25% of crypto portfolio in DeFi after recent hacks
  • Technology earnings up 18% but stocks down 12%, representing 25% multiple compression as AI investments shift companies from asset-light to asset-heavy models

Episodes

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI

General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Letter | CEO Hemant Taneja

General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Letter | CEO Hemant Taneja

The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard

The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard

Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points”

Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points”

The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX)

The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX)

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office

Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, ElevenLabs, Kalshi

Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, ElevenLabs, Kalshi

Coatue on Navigating AI Volatility in Public Markets

Coatue on Navigating AI Volatility in Public Markets

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: $10T Companies Are Coming

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: $10T Companies Are Coming

Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7

Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7

$1.9B AUM. 200+ Investments. 54 Exits. Inside M13

$1.9B AUM. 200+ Investments. 54 Exits. Inside M13

How Elon Builds Trillion-Dollar Companies

How Elon Builds Trillion-Dollar Companies

Inside the Minds of the Greatest Founders | David Senra

Inside the Minds of the Greatest Founders | David Senra

$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund

$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

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

Elad Gil on the 2000 Dot-Com Crash & the Coming AI Shakeout

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