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Sourcery with Molly O"Shea

Interviews with the top VCs & Founders leading the next tech innovation cycle.

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00:34:57

How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq,...

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2024/12/14

Lucy Guo is a prominent entrepreneur and investor, known for her role as a co-founder of various technology startups. She gained recognition as one of the early employees at the artificial intelligence startup, Scale AI.We recorded this episode live from Lucy's new studio in Los Angeles! In this conversation, we discuss building in the creator economy, signing huge names, building a creator HQ in LA, biggest misconceptions, raising $50M in 2 yrs, ditching web3, and competitive fintech & data

00:34:53

Dan Wright, CEO Armada | Trae Stephens Next Big Bet

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2024/11/22

Today Molly O'Shea speaks with Dan Wright, CEO of Armada, backed with $100M to date from notable investors like Trae Stephens from Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux, Dragon Global, Microsoft’s M12, 8VC, Shield Capital, among others. Armada is a leading edge computing company deploying servers for advanced AI applications in remote locations. More impressively, this company barely started 2 years ago and has been out of stealth for less than a year, while achieving critical milestones like

00:39:10

Joshua Browder, DoNotPay | Saving Consumers $100M+ &...

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2024/11/15

Molly O'Shea talks with Joshua Browder, Founder & CEO of DoNotPay, a $200M AI champion designed to help people fight against big corporations and beat bureaucracy. Joshua shares his journey from dropping out of Stanford for a Thiel Fellowship to founding DoNotPay. To date, DoNotPay has saved consumers $100M+ on over 1.6M cases and attracted significant venture capital interest.We go deeper into the innovative features of DoNotPay, its ‘spicy’ media strategy, and the importance of building a

00:37:34

America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall |...

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2024/11/08

Molly O'Shea interviews Jason Fiedler, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, a $2B+ venture fund focused on consumer and internet businesses. They discuss his unique investment strategies focused on consumer goods, sports, and the evolving retail landscape, diving into specific subcategories and his portfolio companies. Jason shares insights on the importance of NPS Delta, the application of software frameworks to consumer investing, his Sims City vision, pearls & strings system, and the

00:33:46

Aramco of The Moon: Lunar Ice Mining For...

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2024/11/01

Molly O’Shea interviews Saurav Shroff, Founder & CEO of Starpath, a company developing megascale propellant production systems for lunar and Mars operations. For full show notes, visit: https://highlightai.com/share/65820d0a-9323-4de8-a526-9bb3aca1baeb-- Follow on Twitter https://x.com/MollySOShea https://x.com/SauravShroff5 -- Check out Starpath https://starpath.space/ -- Subscribe to Sourcery: https://www.sourcery.vc/ -- Sponsor: Archer Archer's Midnight is a piloted four

00:57:19

Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher...

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2024/10/25

In this fascinating episode of Sourcery, host Molly O'Shea sits down with Richard Socher, founder and CEO of You.com and co-founder of AIX Ventures. Richard shares insights on building an AI-powered productivity engine, the future of AI agents, and his journey from academic researcher to successful entrepreneur and investor.Special offer for Sourcery listeners: https://www.you.com/business/sourcery For full show notes, visit:

00:53:51

Jeff Morris Jr, Chapter One | Difficult Market for VCs

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2024/10/16

Molly talks to Jeff Morris Jr (JMJ), GP of Chapter One and infamous product leader at Tinder. As emerging funds face an existential crisis, JMJ explores the stark realities of an industry in flux. From the looming specter of industry consolidation & shutdowns, to the relentless pressure to prove relevance, JMJ challenges conventional wisdom about what it takes to succeed in modern VC.JMJ offers a candid look at the struggles and strategies of today's fund managers, painting a picture of an

00:53:07

Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance

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2024/10/11

Molly O’Shea is joined by Alex Kolicich, Founding Partner of 8VC. Before his venture capital career, Alex was an engineer and early product advisor at companies like Clarium, Palantir, and Google. In this discussion, Alex talks about the current investment landscape citing the "AI capabilities gap," the potential for a "trough of AI disillusionment," and highlights the tension between AI's promise and its current limitations. Why is Silicon Valley suddenly embracing the Pentagon? Alex explains how

00:55:37

Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes...

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2024/10/04

Molly O'Shea talks to Sam D’Amico, founder of Impulse Labs which has created one of the highest quality battery-powered induction stoves, offering unparalleled power, precision, and energy storage.Following a strong career in consumer electronics, including work at Google Glass and Oculus, Sam envisions a future where distributed battery storage in appliances could help balance grid load and reduce the need for grid infrastructure upgrades. All the while, delivering a premium performance cooktop

00:51:12

Molly Alter, Partner (Northzone), $4B AUM | Software...

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2024/09/20

Molly O'Shea talks to Molly Alter, Partner at Northzone, a $1.2 billion fund with around $4 billion AUM and discusses her successful investments (Frame.io’s $1.2B exit to Adobe), founder qualities, VC biases and decision-making, as well as the firm's global approach to identifying opportunities.Alter believes in the potential of Europe's tech ecosystem, citing higher net IRR for European VC funds compared to North American ones over 10-15 year horizons. She shares perspectives on US

00:45:55

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

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2024/09/13

Molly O'Shea talks to Zamp's CEO, Rohit Bhadange as he shares his journey from Wall Street to founding the fastest growing sales tax compliance platform. Zamp, an innovative platform is simplifying sales tax compliance for e-commerce and SaaS companies, recently raised a $10M Series A funding round led by Valor Equity Partners, bringing their total funding to $14 million. Learn about their rapid growth and vision for the future in helping e-commerce and SaaS companies automate complex tax

00:52:03

Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis, $3B AUM, AI Agents &...

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2024/09/06

Molly O'Shea is joined by Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis, to discuss their new $825M fund, totaling Felicis’s AUM to $3B. Astasia goes deep on her focus on AI infrastructure, AI-enabled SaaS, and AI-enabled services and breaks down how AI is changing the face of enterprise software exploring the evolution of enterprise software and how AI is transforming data stacks.She explains how the AI landscape has evolved, highlighting the rise of alternative foundation models and AI agents, and emphasizes

00:40:14

Crunchbase Macro Update | Surprising VC Narrative...

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2024/08/29

Molly O'Shea is joined by Gené Teare, senior data editor at Crunchbase News, and brings her wealth of experience and insight to the world of venture capital and startup ecosystems.Gené Teare provides a comprehensive overview of the current venture capital landscape, highlighting the ongoing two-year slowdown in the VC market, and points out a trend towards concentration in late-stage funding. She also touches on the topic of diversity, reporting that female-founded companies received only 3%

00:48:00

Computer Science is So Hot Right Now | Grace Isford,...

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2024/08/23

Molly O'Shea talks to Grace Isford of Lux Capital, the firm’s youngest Partner, on computational sciences, the current AI Landscape, her investment thesis on New York City's AI sector, and implementing AI in companies.Grace discusses the potential and challenges of AI agents, the current state of the technology as well as the companies making progress in this space. She also provides practical advice on how companies can implement AI, emphasizing the importance of defining your goals,

00:38:32

The Quiet Revolution in DNA Sequencing | Nucleus...

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2024/08/16

Molly O'Shea is joined by Nucleus Genomics CEO Kian Sadeghi discussing the integration of DNA into daily life, from predicting health risks to unlocking personal insights.Nucleus Genomics launches Nucleus IQ, a report that analyzes your genetic contribution to intelligence. Throughout the discussion, Sadeghi emphasizes the potential of genetic information to transform healthcare and personal wellness, while also touching on some of the ethical and practical challenges in the

00:56:47

Masha Bucher, Day One Ventures: Investing in The...

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2024/08/01

In this episode, Molly O'Shea talks with Day One Ventures founder Masha Bucher on the firm's investment strategy, highlighting their focus on AI, "Future of Human" technologies, and their approach to identifying exceptional founders.Masha discusses her firm's $150 million Fund 3, their focus on El Segundo's burgeoning tech scene, and their unique investment strategy targeting pre-seed and seed companies with "exceptional founders." Masha shares her insights on

00:50:48

Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with...

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2024/07/26

In this episode, Molly O'Shea is joined by Jordan Noone, an aerospace engineer, former Founding CTO of Relativity Space, Co-Founder and General Partner at Embedded Ventures, and Executive Chairman at Zoo. Zoo is automating hardware development, and their Text2CAD technology - an AI-powered CAD engine that turns text prompts into real-world designs- enables engineers to focus on innovation. Zoo is building the world's first computational geometry engine based in the cloud that's

01:08:19

John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent...

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2024/07/24

In this episode, Molly O'Shea talks to John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund and co-founder of Lucy and Soylent. They cover topics such as his role as an EIR at Founders Fund, his journey from starting Soylent & going through YC, becoming a successful YouTuber (over 430K subscribers & over 8M views), as well as his insights into the history of nicotine & tobacco with his company Lucy. John dives into all of the complexities of startup entrepreneurship, the importance of really good

00:47:15

Are LLMs Hitting a Wall? VC Shifts Focus

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2024/07/20

In this episode, Molly O'Shea is joined by Eric Newcomer, founder of "Newcomer”. Eric shares insights from the New York Cerebral Valley Summit, where VCs and founders explored the move beyond foundation models to applications, the rise of AI in established businesses, and the future of creativity in a generative AI world.Eric Newcomer, founder of the newsletter “Newcomer” on the startup and venture capital industry, discusses the evolution of the AI market and his experiences hosting the

00:44:48

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

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2024/07/12

In this episode, Molly O'Shea sits down with Jake Harper and Amol Kapoor of Soot, a spatial, self-organizing file system that revolutionizes how they interact with their data. Joining the group is Soot investor Kobie Fuller, GP at Upfront Ventures.Jake talks about Soot as a consumer-grade vector database with a user-friendly GUI, simplifying data navigation and making AI tooling accessible. He emphasizes the importance of beauty and user experience, aiming to empower and inspire users. Amol

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