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Sourcery — 180 episodes

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Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition

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BlackRock's Tony Kim on AI's Next Winners? Chips, Memory, Robotics & Quantum

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David Friedberg on the Economic Crisis Nobody Wants to Fix

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Data is Back: MongoDB, Databricks, Snowflake

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Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis, Nebius, Glean, Legora.. 12 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI

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AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI

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SambaNova CEO on Raising $1B at $11B: "It's a Land Grab Right Now"

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Fmr SpaceX CIO Ken Venner on Elon, Gwynne, & SpaceX Playbook

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Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck

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Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's

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"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch

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Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel

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Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste”

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Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop..

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Brian Armstrong: “Capitalism Lifts Everyone Up”

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Mark Pincus: How to Build Billion-Dollar Products

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What a $75 Million Airplane Actually Costs to Own

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Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI

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Inside Harvey AI: $11B, $300M ARR, 960 Employees, 12 Offices, 13 Trillion Tokens a Month

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TBPN, Jack Altman, a16z, Now It’s Lightspeed's Media Move

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SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1%

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Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist"

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Inside Impulse Space's Factory with Founder Tom Mueller (Full Tour)

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Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo

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The Token-Maxxing Bill That Shocks Every CFO — & the Fix

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Inside the Alibaba Boardroom: Jack Ma, Masa Son, Joe Tsai & Jackie Reses

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Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz's Multi-Family Office (Part II)

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Commure Hits $7B Backed by GC, Sequoia, Morgan Stanley

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Exclusive Interview: Coatue CIO on AI's Biggest Winners

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How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

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Figure’s Humanoid Factory Tour – CEO Brett Adcock

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Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure

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The Anduril Thesis

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Skydio HQ Tour: Skydio Commits $3.5 Billion to Expand U.S. Manufacturing

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Skydio Raises $110M Series F at $4.4B Valuation | CEO Adam Bry

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

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Financial Advisors Are Cooked – Public Co-CEO on the Great Wealth Transfer

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Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt

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Max Levchin: The Interview

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

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Inside the AI Garage Powering the Real World

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Applied Intuition: The $15B Physical AI Company (You Should Know)

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How Roblox Built a Digital Economy Beneath the Games

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How VCX Put Anthropic & OpenAI Into Public Markets

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

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How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization

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Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook

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Inside a16z’s Growth Bets on Waymo, ElevenLabs, Coinbase, Robinhood, Stripe, Revolut & Kalshi

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Google closes $32B Wiz - Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever

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Alfred Lin - The Future According to Sequoia: AI & $10T Winners

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

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Founders Fund Leads $80M B-2 Into Nominal | Trae Stephens, Cameron McCord

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The $1.9B AUM LA Fund Targeting 100x Returns

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From SpaceX to $1B in 15 Months: Scott Morton’s Revel Story

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(Exclusive HQ Tour) Inside Opendoor on Earnings Day

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Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian

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Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence

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Sam Altman’s Answer to Bots

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Jake Paul Is Coming for VC

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$4.5B Brain-Inspired AI Chip Company

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Inside $6.8B+ AUM Fund Behind 80+ Public Companies, 165+ M&A

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AI vs Humans: Math, Physics, KGB Psyops, UAPs | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia

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Exclusive: Brex’s $5.15B Capital One Acquisition | CEO Pedro Franceschi

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How Elon Builds Trillion-Dollar Companies

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How AI is Reaching the Most Extreme Parts of the World

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Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW

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Full Zipline Factory Tour: How a $7.6B Company Builds Drones

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Zipline Raises $600M+ at $7.6B Valuation | CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

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I Tried Flying an Air Taxi With Archer’s CEO (Midnight Simulator)

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CEO Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's Record Year (+200%, ~$100B Market Cap)

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David Senra on the Founders Who Never Quit

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DreamWorks & the Science of Storytelling | Jeffrey Katzenberg & ChenLi Wang, WndrCo

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Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano

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Palmer Luckey on UFOs, Anduril, Invisibility Tech, & Moon Wars

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Inside Anduril HQ: Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA

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Full Anduril R&D Tour: Matt Grimm, Co-Founder & COO

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Full Interview: Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf on $1B+ Revenue & Still Doubling

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Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens

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Misunderstood Power: Emil Michael on the Truth About the DoW & Defense Tech

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Why $300B of SaaS Revenue Is Trapped & How the $19.9T AI Agent Economy Unlocks It

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Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine

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What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund

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

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Why Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Launched American Dynamism

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Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir: Exclusive Interview Inside PLTR Office

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How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI

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Alfred Lin on Airbnb, DoorDash, OpenAI & Citadel Securities

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Inside Sequoia’s Strategy: Alfred Lin on Company Building & Partnering Long-term

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Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy

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Elad Gil, Jared Kushner & Eric Wu on AI in Business | Brain Co

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Elad Gil Explains Why 90% of Startups Fail in Every Tech Cycle

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Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing

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Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Valor Equity, Thrive, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Stepstone, Elad Gil

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Epirus & Galvanick CEOs on the Future of Defense & Cyberattacks

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What Gets You Funded in AI: Insights from Felicis, 500 Global & Mayfield

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17x Midas List VC Navin Chaddha on The 100x AI Opportunity

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Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI & Defense Tech

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Factory Raises $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, & JPMorgan

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Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing

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Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround

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Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski

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EXCLUSIVE: Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot

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PsiQuantum’s $1B Series E, Nvidia, & the Race to 1 Million Qubits

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Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan

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The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel

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Fired by Elon, Meta & Wendy’s, Now Raising Millions for Hello Patient

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Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company | Patrick McGee

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How The Thiel Fellowship Created $750B+ In Value | Ethereum, Figma, OYO

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Inside OpenAI’s $500B Valuation | Altimeter’s Largest Bet

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How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic

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How to Build a $100M+ Cult Brand: Sophia Amoruso on Nasty Gal, Girlboss & Trust Fund

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Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather

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How The Rarest Company On Earth Raised $75M

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Nuclear Race to Power AI: Valar Atomics, Fuse, Not Boring

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Carta’s Path to $500M ARR, Raising $1B, & Why PE is The Future | Henry Ward, CEO

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Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on American Nuclear Fuel, General Matter

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Winning the AI Race & Reindustrialization | Christian Garrett, 137 Ventures

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How Vise Hit $22B in Platform Assets, Reshaping The $83T Wealth Industry

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Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC

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How Palantir Is Modernizing the Military With AI

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Hadrian Raises $260M Series C Led by Founders Fund & Lux Capital; A Turning Point for U.S. Manufacturing

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How Brex Hit $100B+ in TPV | M&A & Road to IPO

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Inside a16z’s $15M Bet on Cluely: Lead Investor Bryan Kim Reveals All

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How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth With Uncapped: AI, VC, Founders

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Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO

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How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders

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Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board

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Nucleus Launches First Genetically Optimized Embryo

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How Wander Raised $50M to Reinvent Luxury Travel

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How Whop Hit $1.2B GMV Run Rate with Just 20 Engineers

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How Altimeter Is Investing $100M+ Checks | Anduril, SpaceX, K2 Space

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Bucky Moore Joins $30 Billion AUM Mega Fund Lightspeed

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Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company

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Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner

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How Autopilot REVEALS Political Insider Trading | Chris Josephs

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Base Power's $200M Series B Co-Led by Lee Fixel of Addition, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners

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Delian Asparouhov: Varda’s Space Factories & Founders Fund

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SpaceX, Stripe, X, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets

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Arielle Zuckerberg, Winning Founder Recipe: The Rizz & Tiz

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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour - The Future of Free Markets

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Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond

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Packy McCormick, Not Boring | How writing led to investing in Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda

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Zoom to Salesforce: How Emergence Capital Picks Billion-Dollar Winners

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$688 Million AUM in 2 Years Investing in Data, AI, Web3 & Blockchain | Tomasz Tunguz

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Unlocking Mental Resilience: How Spartan Race Builds Unstoppable Minds | CEO Joe De Sena

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Cyan Banister & Lee Jacobs Investing in the Magically Weird | SpaceX, Uber, Anduril, Crusoe

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How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq, Kygo & Olivia Dunne | Passes

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Dan Wright, CEO Armada | Trae Stephens Next Big Bet

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Joshua Browder, DoNotPay | Saving Consumers $100M+ & Investing in Thiel Fellows

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America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital

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Aramco of The Moon: Lunar Ice Mining For Multiplanetary Rockets | Starpath

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Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work

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Jeff Morris Jr, Chapter One | Difficult Market for VCs

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Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance

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Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital

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Molly Alter, Partner (Northzone), $4B AUM | Software for Hardware, EU vs USA, Vertical AI, VC Biases

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Zamp's Series A: $14M in 15 Months

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Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis, $3B AUM, AI Agents & Autopilots, New Infra Opportunities, & Roadblocks

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Crunchbase Macro Update | Surprising VC Narrative Violations & AI's Big Break

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Computer Science is So Hot Right Now | Grace Isford, Lux Capital

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The Quiet Revolution in DNA Sequencing | Nucleus Genomics

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Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with Jordan Noone of Zoo

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John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy

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Are LLMs Hitting a Wall? VC Shifts Focus

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Soot's $7.2M Seed Round: CEO, CTO, & Investor, Kobie Fuller

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Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities

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Hunter Walk, Homebrew & Screendoor

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Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer on Portable Nuclear Microreactors & the Future of Clean Energy

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Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse

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Jared Hecht of USV, 2x Exited Founder of Fundera (Nerdwallet) & GroupMe (Skype/Microsoft)

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Embracing American Dynamism to Upgrade Manufacturing Production With Oden CEO Willem Sundblad

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Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101”

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Morgan Housel: Understanding Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Other Outliers in Tech

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Chris Power, Hadrian: $10B or Zero, Revitalizing American Manufacturing

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Nick Abouzeid, Rivet: Growth "Hacking" Myths, What Worked at Ramp, & Better Tax Services

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Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund

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David Weisburd, 10X Capital: Finding Alpha and LP Bias

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Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions

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Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies