Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

00:30:01

OpenAI Co-Founder: Start Building With AI Before You...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/10/02

Greg Brockman co-founded OpenAI and previously served as CTO of Stripe. He believes AI could spark a massive renaissance of entrepreneurship—but what should we actually build when the models keep getting better?In this episode, I show Greg the AI app I created to prepare for our interview and ask how to make it more ambitious. We talk about what makes an AI product worth paying for, why domain expertise matters more than ever, and how founders and small-business owners can use AI today. Links:📌

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00:18:27

TOP 10 Highest-Paying Jobs for the next 10 years (and...

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2026/09/29

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects which jobs will grow through 2035, and it rated 831 occupations by how much of the work AI can do or help with. I went through the data to find the careers where demand is growing, what they pay, and what it takes to get in.We rank 10 growing careers by median salary, from management analysts at $101,860 to computer and information systems managers at $175,140. You'll see why nurse practitioners are the fastest-growing occupation in the country, why

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00:31:49

$13B Lovable Co-Founder: Build a Profitable AI...

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2026/09/25

Anton Osika runs Lovable, one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world, and he's done with the words "vibe coding." Vibes work for a demo, but people now run real businesses on Lovable. In this episode we go step by step: how to turn a tool you built for yourself into a real business, how to set up a backend without knowing how to code, and how to price your product. And as building gets easier every month, Anton names the one skill that matters most for an AI founder right

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00:36:58

Grammarly CEO: AI Moved the Career Ladder (Most...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/09/08

Shishir Mehrotra ran product for YouTube, founded Coda, and has sat on Spotify's board for over a decade. He now runs Superhuman, the company behind Grammarly, which 40 million people use every day.In this episode, he reverses the career advice he gave for twenty years — stop trying to be a great executor, start learning to manage. He explains why the best jobs never come through the recruiting funnel, walks through the framework he built at Google for how promotions actually work, and points to

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00:21:18

Top 1% Career Playbook: How to Get Hired in the AI Era

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/09/04

Seven people who run companies employing more than 30,000 people answer the same question: who are you hiring right now? Sal Khan, Yamini Rangan, Aaron Levie, Luana Lopes Lara, Grant Lee, and Conor Grennan get unusually specific about what they look for in you before the interview starts and what makes them say yes. And Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn for six years, opens up LinkedIn's own data. By the end, you have a step-by-step plan for getting hired in 2026.📩 Follow my Newsletter:

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00:36:14

Andrew Ng: The Biggest Opportunities in AI Aren't...

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2026/08/28

Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera, built the founding team at Google Brain, and has taught roughly 8 million people AI.In this episode, he pushes back on the AI job panic making the rounds this year, walks through the actual math on how much of a job AI can automate, and explains why he thinks universities are still teaching students for a job market from 2022. He also gets specific about what he looks for when hiring marketers, recruiters, and ops people now — and admits that despite building his

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00:20:19

Most Replayed Moment: Stanford's AI Economist Names...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/08/21

What if the highest-paying jobs today are the onesdisappearing first?Erik Brynjolfsson is Stanford's leading AI economist,director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and one ofthe most cited voices on how technology reshapes theworkforce. He's spent decades studying which jobs getdestroyed, which get created, and who wins in everymajor shift.In this Moment, Erik Brynjolfsson names the specificprofessions being replaced right now, why radiologistsare thriving while paralegals are losing

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00:17:52

Godmother of AI: The Missing Piece of Intelligence...

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2026/08/14

What if the most powerful language models on Earthare missing the one piece that makes intelligence real?Fei-Fei Li is the "Godmother of AI" who built thedataset that made modern artificial intelligencepossible, spent years leading Stanford's AI Lab,and now runs World Labs, a $1 billion startupbuilding the next frontier of AI.Fei-Fei Li reveals the missing piece of intelligencethat language models can't see, the four abilitiesthat make it up, and what her billion-dollar startupis

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00:32:17

$22B Co-Founder: What the Market Predicts for Your...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/08/11

Luana Lopes Lara is the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire, by Forbes' count. In 2018, she co-founded Kalshi, a platform where anyone can look up the odds on things that haven't happened yet. This May, the company raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation. Her entire job is watching what people bet real money on.Luana Lopes Lara sits down with Marina Mogilko, Silicon Valley Girl, to discuss what the board already knows. What actually changes for a normal person by the end of

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00:16:45

How to Rank #1 in AI: 5 steps | The Ultimate Guide

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/08/07

We rebuilt Silicon Valley Girl for GEO. Generative Engine Optimization. Two months ago, if you asked ChatGPT or Perplexity for AI podcast recommendations, the podcast Silicon Valley Girl didn't show up at all. Today we're the 5th most visible of the 11 podcast brands we track. Our AI visibility doubled.I'll show you the 5 steps in the exact order we did them, so you can run the same system on your business, your podcast, or your website.Links: 📩 Get our free 30-day GEO plan in the Future Proof

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00:13:35

Most Replayed Moment: Ex-Google X Chief Reveals Why...

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2026/08/05

What if the smartest thing you could do for your kidsin the age of AI is not send them to college?Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X,where he spent over a decade running business innovationsbefore becoming one of the world's leading voices on AIand its impact on humanity.In this Moment, Mo Gawdat reveals why he believes collegewon't exist in ten years, the four skills every kid needsto prepare for an AI-first world, and his prediction thatAGI is arriving this

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01:00:13

Stop Disease 5 Years Early: AI + DNA Playbook With...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/07/29

In this episode of the Silicon Valley Girl Podcast, Marina Mogilko sits down with Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe — the genetic testing company that has helped more than 14 million people understand their ancestry and health risks, and built one of the largest human genetic datasets in the world.After 23andMe went through bankruptcy and Anne lost control of the company she started in 2006, she fought to win it back at a court-approved auction and relaunched it as a nonprofit (TTAM

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00:51:25

Stanford's AI Economist: The Next 10 Years Will Be...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/07/21

Erik Brynjolfsson is the Stanford economist who has spent 30 years measuring what technology actually does to jobs. He wrote "The Second Machine Age," directs the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and just published "Canaries in the Coal Mine" — the paper showing AI has already cut employment 16% for workers under 25 in the most exposed jobs.If you're trying to figure out where your career goes in an AI world — which side of the line your job is on, and what to do about it — this one is for you.Topics:

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00:39:33

The 3-Year AI Deadline: How to Stay Relevant...

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2026/07/17

Who actually gets access to AI, and does it stay open to everyone or slowly turn into a privilege for a few? Daniil and David Liberman came on to answer that. They're building a decentralized alternative to Big Tech AI. We got into why every job eventually gets disrupted (and the real timeline), the one-hour-a-day habit that beats Netflix for staying ahead, and how pointing ChatGPT's camera at a broken pipe fixed 3 years of no hot water in their house. Stay to the end for the rapid-fire round:

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00:42:14

Khan Academy CEO: You don't need a $380K degree to...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/07/14

Sal Khan built Khan Academy into a free education platform used by over 200 million people worldwide. Now he's writing a book called Job Shock, arguing AI could disrupt jobs faster than his own past predictions accounted for.Which jobs are already disappearing. Which ones are safe. What Khan Academy is doing internally with AI, including a $1.2M/year Anthropic bill.And Sal's new venture with TED and ETS: a $10,000, accreditation-pending degree built around durable skills — the kind AI still

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00:16:49

The Get Noticed Playbook: This Is How You Actually...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/07/13

Matthew Derella runs the ads business at LinkedIn, a platform with over 1 billion professionals. A recent guest on this podcast told me you have two years left to build a personal brand before AI floods the feed. I brought that argument to Matt at Cannes, and he took the other side: the more AI content there is, the more the credibility of the source decides who gets found, and LLMs already lean on citations from people who know their stuff. He shared the numbers behind it: founders who post

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00:28:12

SVP at Adobe Express: Why AI Content Doesn't Get...

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2026/07/08

Govind Balakrishnan is the SVP running Adobe Express. He's spent 20 years at Adobe and watched creation move from desktop to mobile to social feeds. We sat down at Cannes to talk about why AI content doesn't get views. His answer: everyone blames the algorithms, but it's humans who are tuning it out. AI now gets you 60–70% of the creative work in minutes. The last 20–30%, where you add your own taste and voice, is the part people actually watch. He also told me why he expects the

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00:42:11

Musk's Early Investor: The 3 Bets That Will Define AI...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/07/07

Steve Jurvetson has worked with Elon Musk for 29 years and was one of the earliest investors in SpaceX and Tesla, back when space wasn't even a category for venture capital. Today he runs Future Ventures, where he bets on nuclear fusion, epigenetic editing, and analog AI chips.We recorded this live on stage, with audience Q&A at the end.We cover:Why compute has compounded for 130 years, and what that curve says about the next 3 yearsSuperintelligence odds: why Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark

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00:49:41

Why You Need to Rethink Your Career Now | Richard Socher

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/06/26

📌 Head to https://granola.ai/marina and enter the code MARINA for 3 months off.Richard Socher is the fourth most-cited researcher in the history of natural language processing — he invented the word vectors and prompt engineering that run inside almost every chatbot you use. He sold his first startup to Salesforce, built You.com into a $1.5B unicorn, and in May 2026 raised $650M at a $4.65B valuation for Recursive: an AI that runs its own experiments and rewrites itself. In this conversation he

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00:46:37

Fei-Fei Li: In 10 Years There Will Be Only 2 Kinds of...

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·

2026/06/25

Dr. Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet — the dataset that triggered the deep learning revolution. Now she runs World Labs, where she just raised $1 billion to teach AI something it still can't do: understand physical space. She was named Time Person of the Year in 2025 and won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.David Rogier founded MasterClass in 2015 on the idea that everyone should have access to world-class teachers. He has an MBA from Stanford and now builds all his own work tools with

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