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What Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Says About Sales
12 episodes about sales
Interviews with top investors & CEOs.
Key Insights on Sales
Phil Knight's belief that 'belief is irresistible' - genuine conviction in what you're building becomes contagious and stops requiring traditional sales techniques
- Anthropic's revenue has grown 10x annually: 'zero to 100 million in 2023, 100 million to a billion in 2024, billion to nine or 10 billion in 2025' - Dario
- Banking lobby remains the main obstacle to stablecoin legislation, refusing to allow any yield revenue sharing with consumers
- Increasing monthly ad spend from $400 to $1,400 scaled Gym Launch from $300k to over $2 million monthly revenue in just months
- YouTube's revenue share model (close to 50%) exists due to historical competition, while other social networks give creators effectively 0% outside token creator funds
- European countries now provide all financial support to Ukraine while US provides no funding, only weapons sales
- Trump made over 3,700 trades in Q1 2026, including NVIDIA stock purchased a week before Commerce Department approved chip sales to China
- Oracle revenue jumped 22% to over $17 billion last quarter, beating Wall Street expectations despite $143 billion in long-term debt
Episodes
How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI
General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Letter | CEO Hemant Taneja
The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard
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
Thomas Laffont, Coatue - Anthropic, Citrini Paper, AI Volatility & Next Mag 7
How Elon Builds Trillion-Dollar Companies
$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
Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt
Books on sales
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