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Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

Marina Mogilko

87 episodes

The world's top CEOs and AI founders explain what's coming next and how you can get ahead. Silicon Valley Girl is a weekly AI and technology podcast from Silicon Valley hosted by female founder and angel investor Marina Mogilko, covering practical strategies for career growth, mastering AI tools, entrepreneurship and making money with AI. For startup founders, professionals and creators who want to stay ahead in the AI era.

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  1. Claude Engineering Lead: "Stop Using Claude Like It’s 2024"

    · 48 min

    Felix Rieseberg has led engineering for Claude.ai, Cowork, and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. He thinks many of us are still giving AI tasks it has already outgrown. If you’re only asking Claude to summarize emails,…

  2. Google’s James Manyika: Who Actually Gets Paid in the AI Economy

    · 55 min

    James Manyika runs research and labs at Google, and his team recently studied millions of real Gemini conversations to see how people use AI at work. In a typical job, it's only about a fifth of the tasks. I asked him…

  3. Brian Chesky: People Who Know What to Build With AI Will Pull Ahead

    · 34 min

    Brian Chesky built Airbnb into an S&P 500 company, and he says starting a business today is easier than it was 20 years ago. In this episode we go step by step: how Airbnb is becoming AI-native, why chat is the wrong…

  4. Nobel Economist: Where He Sees The Real Money in AI | Daron Acemoglu

    · 43 min

    Daron Acemoglu is an MIT economist and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences. He believes some of AI’s biggest business opportunities are being overlooked—but where does he see the real money, and what should you…

  5. OpenAI Co-Founder: Start Building With AI Before You Feel Ready | Greg Brockman

    · 30 min

    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…

  6. TOP 10 Highest-Paying Jobs for the next 10 years (and 5 jobs that have NO future)

    · 18 min

    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…

  7. $13B Lovable Co-Founder: Build a Profitable AI Product From Scratch in 30 Minutes

    · 32 min

    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…

  8. Superhuman CEO: AI Moved the Career Ladder (Most People Don't See It Yet) | Shishir Mehrotra

    · 37 min

    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…

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

    · 21 min

    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…

  10. Andrew Ng: The Biggest Opportunities in AI Aren't Where You Think

    · 36 min

    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…

  11. Stanford's AI Economist Names the Jobs That Won't Exist in 5 Years | Erik Brynjolfsson

    · 20 min

    What if the highest-paying jobs today are the ones disappearing first?Erik Brynjolfsson is Stanford's leading AI economist,director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and one of the most cited voices on how…

  12. Godmother of AI: The Missing Piece of Intelligence LLMs Can't See | Fei-Fei Li

    · 18 min

    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…

  13. $22B Co-Founder: What the Market Predicts for Your Job in 2026 | Luana Lopes Lara

    · 32 min

    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…

  14. How to Rank #1 in AI: 5 steps | The Ultimate Guide on GEO

    · 17 min

    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…

  15. Most Replayed Moment: Ex-Google X Chief Reveals Why College Is Over in 10 Years

    · 14 min

    What if the smartest thing you could do for your kids in 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 innovations…

  16. Stop Disease 5 Years Early: AI + DNA Playbook With 23andMe's Founder Anne Wojcicki

    · 1 h 00 min

    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…

  17. Stanford's AI Economist: The Next 10 Years Will Be the Best AND the Worst in History | Erik Brynjolfsson

    · 51 min

    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…

  18. The 3-Year AI Deadline: How to Stay Relevant (2026-2028) | Daniil and David Liberman

    · 40 min

    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…

  19. Khan Academy CEO: How to Re-Skill for the AI Economy in the Next 3 Years | Sal Khan

    · 42 min

    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…

  20. 3 Steps on How to Grow on Linkedin in 2026 | Matt Derella

    · 17 min

    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…

  21. The One Thing That Makes Your Content Stand Out in 2026 | Govind Balakrishnan, SVP at Adobe Express

    · 28 min

    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.…

  22. Musk's Early Investor: The 3 Bets That Will Define AI by 2028 | Steve Jurvetson

    · 42 min

    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…

  23. Why You Need to Rethink Your Career Now | Richard Socher

    · 50 min

    📌 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…

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

    · 47 min

    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.…

  25. The 5 Levels of AI-Native: How to Get From Level 1 to Level 5 in 30 days | Peter Yang

    · 29 min

    Peter Yang spent 10+ years building products at Roblox, Reddit, Amazon (Twitch), and Meta. Then he walked away from a high-paying job at Roblox to go all-in as a solo builder. His newsletter Behind the Craft has 140K+…

  26. Godmother of Silicon Valley: How to Raise a CEO | Esther Wojcicki

    · 42 min

    Esther Wojcicki is the "Godmother of Silicon Valley." She raised three daughters: Susan, who ran YouTube; Anne, who founded 23andMe; and Janet, a professor and anthropologist. Her parenting advice got me through the…

  27. Grant Lee : From "The Worst Idea" to a $2.1B Company | Gamma

    · 44 min

    Grant Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Gamma — the $2.1B AI tool that turns one prompt into a finished presentation, now used by 100 million people. We covered: • How Gamma hit $100M in revenue with a team of just 50…

  28. Your Next Cofounder Is an AI | Edward Kim, Co-Founder & CTO of Gusto ($10B)

    · 35 min

    Eddie Kim is the co-founder and CTO of Gusto — the $10B payroll and HR platform that millions of small businesses run on. Gusto just launched Gusto Cofounder — an AI teammate for small businesses: payroll, compliance,…

  29. The 5-Layer System to Make Your Business Run on AI

    · 15 min

    In 5 years the most valuable companies will run as a closed AI loop — every call, email, and content metric feeding back into one system that acts faster than any human team. In this video I walk through the 5 levels…

  30. Granola CEO: How to Build in a Crowded AI Market Without Marketing | Christopher Pedregal

    · 45 min

    📌 Head to https://granola.ai/marina and enter the code MARINA for 3 months off.Chris Pedregal built a $1.5 billion AI app in 3 years, in a category where Zoom and Google already had similar features before he launched.…

  31. Airtable CEO: AI Will Make You Almost Superhuman | Howie Liu

    · 31 min

    Howie Liu co-founded Airtable in 2012, the no-code app builder used by over 80% of Fortune 100 companies. After scaling Airtable into one of the biggest software businesses on the planet, he's now building HyperAgent:…

  32. Head of ChatGPT & Codex: AI Agents for Everyone Are HERE | Thibault Sottiaux OpenAI

    · 29 min

    Thibault Sottiaux is the head of ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. He told me that in a few months, people who don't use AI at all will get the same benefits as those who've spent two years figuring it out. So what's…

  33. Google I/O 2026: A New Era of Work Just Started | Josh Woodward

    · 32 min

    Josh Woodward runs Google Labs, AI Studio, and the Gemini app — basically every AI product Google ships. Google just launched Gemini Spark, the AI agent that works for you 24/7 in the background. In this episode,…

  34. $4B Box CEO Aaron Levie: The Next 3 Years Are the Best Time to Build — Here's How to Use This Window

    · 51 min

    Aaron Levie built Box into a $4 billion company used by 64% of the Fortune 500. Now he says we're at the best moment to build an AI company in 15 years — and the window is 3 years. In this episode, Marina sits down…

  35. "In 6 Months, We'll Start Losing Jobs to AI" — Alpha School Founder MacKenzie Price

    · 57 min

    MacKenzie Price built Alpha — an AI-first school where kids do academics for 2 hours a day, score in the top 1% nationally across every grade, and learn from AI tutors instead of teachers. She also has a prediction.…

  36. 6 AI Businesses You Can Start in 2026 — No Code, No Funding, Real Advice from Reid Hoffman, 11Labs CEO & Google's VP of Search

    · 22 min

    In this episode, Marina breaks down 6 AI business models you can actually start in 2026 — from the easiest (zero tech skills required) to the most scalable (think: automated SaaS with 50% margins). No fluff, no theory.…

  37. Mo Gawdat, Allie Miller, Gary Vee: The 6 AI Tools They Use Daily to Earn More | AI Tools 2026

    · 30 min

    What 6 AI tools are the smartest people in the room actually using every day? I asked the same question to dozens of founders, investors, and AI leaders this year — which AI tool changed your income the most? Six…

  38. How to Build a $10K AI Business Solo — No Code, No Funding

    · 15 min

    What would you build today if you had to start from zero? I asked 6 founders the same question: with just a laptop, AI, and no funding — what would get you to $10,000 a month in 90 days? In this podcast they share…

  39. 7 AI Skills That Will Make You Irreplaceable | Advice from Replit, Anthropic, and Microsoft

    · 19 min

    Job postings with AI skills now pay $18,000 more per year (Lightcast, 2025). By 2030, 39% of today's skills will be outdated. These are the ones that won't. So I asked the people building these AI tools and working…

  40. Google Fired Him. Then He Won a Nobel Prize | John Martinis

    · 31 min

    John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that made quantum computing possible. At 67, he retired from UC Santa Barbara to build Qolab, his quantum hardware startup. President Trump named him…

  41. AI Safety Expert: No One Is Ready for What's Coming in 2 Years | Roman Yampolskiy

    · 44 min

    Roman Yampolskiy has spent 15 years at the University of Louisville studying one question: can we control AI? His answer is no. And in 2026, the early evidence is showing up inside his own department — a 28% drop in…

  42. How to Build a $1M Business Solo in 2026 — No Team, No Funding, No Code

    · 14 min

    If you lost everything tomorrow — your money, your network, your reputation — and had to rebuild from zero in 2026, what would you actually do? I asked the founders who've already done it. In this episode, I talk to…

  43. How AI Is Solving Problems We Thought Were Impossible | Yossi Matias, Google VP of Research

    · 28 min

    AI is already solving problems scientists said were impossible — and we're just getting started. In this episode, Yossi Matias, VP of Engineering & Research at Google, explains why we're living through the golden age…

  44. Which Jobs Survive AI by 2030? Saadia Zahidi (WEF) Reveals What the Data Actually Shows

    · 18 min

    Which Jobs Survive AI by 2030? Saadia Zahidi (WEF) Reveals What the Data Actually Shows Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, joins Silicon Valley Girl live from Davos to break down the WEF…

  45. Duolingo CEO: AI Won't Take Your Job — But Someone Using It Will (And Here's What to Do Now) | Luis von Ahn

    · 44 min

    📌 Try Granola — the AI notepad that turns meetings into action: https://www.granola.ai/marina or use code MARINA at checkout for 3 months free. Luis von Ahn built Duolingo into a company with 100M+ monthly active…

  46. Nobel Prize Winner: What Quantum Computing Does to AI, Bitcoin, and Your Data | John Martinis

    · 21 min

    What happens after AI? John Martinis — Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the scientist behind Google's quantum computing breakthrough — says most people are focused on the wrong threat. He's the only scientist on…

  47. How to Build an AI Brain in 1 Hour: 3 Documents, Zero Coding — Allie K. Miller

    · 57 min

    Allie K. Miller is the #1 most-followed voice in AI business on LinkedIn with 2M followers. She launched IBM's first multimodal AI team, then became global head of machine learning for startups at AWS. Now her advisory…

  48. Ex-Google Exec: How to Position Yourself Now Before the Next AI Phase (2026–2027) | Mo Gawdat

    · 39 min

    Mo Gawdat spent 12 years at Google, wrote Scary Smart, and now predicts 12–15 years of disruption before things get better. In this episode, he breaks down the 7 forces already reshaping jobs and power, why 23–30% of…

  49. The AI Skills Gap Is Real: Google VP on Why People Are Falling Behind and What to Do Right Now | Yossi Matias

    · 17 min

    Yossi Matias has been inside Google Research for 20 years. He built Autocomplete, Google Trends, and Google Duplex before most people knew what a large language model was. His argument isn't that AI is coming. It's…

  50. Gary Vee: The AI Opportunity Is Real — You're Just Looking at It Wrong

    · 43 min

    I spent 8 years waiting to have this conversation. Gary Vaynerchuk on whether this is actually our last chance to build wealth with AI, what he'd do if he woke up broke tomorrow, why the middle of the market is the…

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