Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth
Silicon Valley Girl is a weekly AI and technology podcast hosted by female founder and angel investor Marina Mogilko. It features interviews with top CEOs and AI founders discussing what's coming next in tech. The show covers practical strategies for career growth, mastering AI tools, entrepreneurship, and making money with AI. It is aimed at startup founders, professionals, and creators who want to stay ahead in the AI era.
Episodes
Most Replayed Moment: Stanford's AI Economist Names the Jobs That Won't Exist in 5 Years | Erik Brynjolfsson
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 sp
Godmother of AI: The Missing Piece of Intelligence LLMs Can't See | Fei-Fei Li
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 l
$22B Co-Founder: What the Market Predicts for Your Job in 2026 | Luana Lopes Lara
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 Valle
How to Rank #1 in AI: 5 steps | The Ultimate Guide on GEO
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
Most Replayed Moment: Ex-Google X Chief Reveals Why College Is Over in 10 Years
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 before becoming one of the world's leading voices on AI and its impact on humanity.In this Moment, Mo Gawdat reveals why he believes college won't exist in ten years, the four
Stop Disease 5 Years Early: AI + DNA Playbook With 23andMe's Founder Anne Wojcicki
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
Stanford's AI Economist: The Next 10 Years Will Be the Best AND the Worst in History | Erik Brynjolfsson
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
The 3-Year AI Deadline: How to Stay Relevant (2026-2028) | Daniil and David Liberman
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 b
Khan Academy CEO: How to Re-Skill for the AI Economy in the Next 3 Years | Sal Khan
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 a
3 Steps on How to Grow on Linkedin in 2026 | Matt Derella
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 o
The One Thing That Makes Your Content Stand Out in 2026 | Govind Balakrishnan, SVP at Adobe Express
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 ta
Musk's Early Investor: The 3 Bets That Will Define AI by 2028 | Steve Jurvetson
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 wh
Why You Need to Rethink Your Career Now | Richard Socher
📌 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 valuat
Fei-Fei Li: In 10 Years There Will Be Only 2 Kinds of Workers
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 acce
The 5 Levels of AI-Native: How to Get From Level 1 to Level 5 in 30 days | Peter Yang
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+ readers, and his podcast has deep conversations with 30+ AI leaders from Anthropic, Google, Cursor, and Replit. In this episode he breaks down how: how to move from using AI like a s
Godmother of Silicon Valley: How to Raise a CEO | Esther Wojcicki
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 hardest parts of new motherhood, and YouTube, which Susan built, is the reason I have a career at all.In this episode we cover:The one rule that decides whether AI makes a ki
Grant Lee : From "The Worst Idea" to a $2.1B Company | Gamma
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 — profitably, on only $23M of fundingThe two signs you have product-market fit before the money shows up, and why "your friends will lie to you" about your productHow to run a full fundra
Your Next Cofounder Is an AI | Edward Kim, Co-Founder & CTO of Gusto ($10B)
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, and daily ops handled before they become problems.Learn more about cofounder here -> https://gusto.com/cofounder?idgm=2mm6b6i2 We covered:The two levels of using AI in a business,
The 5-Layer System to Make Your Business Run on AI
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 we're building inside my own company, from the foundation layer to the part most founders skip. If you're a founder, creator, or operator trying to make this real in your own
Granola CEO: How to Build in a Crowded AI Market Without Marketing | Christopher Pedregal
📌 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.In this conversation he hands over the exact playbook for breaking out of a crowded market with a tiny team and a small marketing budget — a playbook anyone can use to win in the AI
Airtable CEO: AI Will Make You Almost Superhuman | Howie Liu
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: a platform where anyone can deploy AI agents into their team chats, email, and calendar without writing code.In this conversation, Howie asked me a question I couldn't answer
Head of ChatGPT & Codex: AI Agents for Everyone Are HERE | Thibault Sottiaux OpenAI
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 actually going to be your edge in a market this competitive? Thibault opened up and shared a few of his secrets — he showed me how his own agents work and how anyone can set th
Google I/O 2026: A New Era of Work Just Started | Josh Woodward
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, Marina sits down with Josh during Google I/O to talk about:— Why we're moving from "doing" to "directing"— Why human judgment and taste are becoming more valuable,
$4B Box CEO Aaron Levie: The Next 3 Years Are the Best Time to Build — Here's How to Use This Window
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 with Aaron to talk about what's actually happening inside enterprise AI, why younger founders have a surprising advantage right now, and which jobs are genuinely at risk vs. whic
"In 6 Months, We'll Start Losing Jobs to AI" — Alpha School Founder MacKenzie Price
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. In the next 6 months, our friends, the people we work with, maybe even ourselves — will start losing jobs to AI. Which is why she's so urgent about this. The school we grew up in wa
6 AI Businesses You Can Start in 2026 — No Code, No Funding, Real Advice from Reid Hoffman, 11Labs CEO & Google's VP of Search
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. Just specific ideas with action steps you can take this week.You'll hear directly from:Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder, legendary investor) on how to double your income right now
Mo Gawdat, Allie Miller, Gary Vee: The 6 AI Tools They Use Daily to Earn More | AI Tools 2026
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 tools kept coming up.In this compilation, Mo Gawdat (former Chief Business Officer at Google X), Allie K. Miller (former Global Head of ML at AWS), and Gary Vaynerchuk (CEO of VaynerMedia
How to Build a $10K AI Business Solo — No Code, No Funding
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 how they'd build a business today from scratch: what to build, how to choose a niche, marketing advice, and how to get your first paying customer by day 30. Gary Vee, Amjad Masad (Rep
7 AI Skills That Will Make You Irreplaceable | Advice from Replit, Anthropic, and Microsoft
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 inside the biggest AI companies in the world — what skills will make you irreplaceable in the AI era? From every conversation, 7 skills kept coming up — the ones that actually keep you
Google Fired Him. Then He Won a Nobel Prize | John Martinis
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 to the PCAST science council with Zuckerberg, Brin, and Huang — the only physicist in the room.This is the uncut Davos conversation.What we cover:— How quantum computing could replac
AI Safety Expert: No One Is Ready for What's Coming in 2 Years | Roman Yampolskiy
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 co-op placements for CS students. Prediction markets for AGI have collapsed from 2045 down to 2028–2030. So I asked him the question everyone actually wants answered: if 99% of jobs re
How to Build a $1M Business Solo in 2026 — No Team, No Funding, No Code
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 Samir Vasavada (CEO of Vise), Young Zhao (CEO of Opus Clip), Aravind Srinivas (CEO of Perplexity), Daniel Priestley, and Amjad Masad (CEO of Replit) about the exact strategies they&
How AI Is Solving Problems We Thought Were Impossible | Yossi Matias, Google VP of Research
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 of research and what that means for your career, your kids, and your future.We cover:Why AI agents and vibe coding are actually underhypedHow Google's AI co-scientist
Which Jobs Survive AI by 2030? Saadia Zahidi (WEF) Reveals What the Data Actually Shows
Which Jobs Survive AI by 2030? Saadia Zahidi (WEF) Reveals What the Data Actually ShowsSaadia Zahidi, Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, joins Silicon Valley Girl live from Davos to break down the WEF Future of Jobs Report — and what it actually means for your career.The data: 78 million new jobs are coming by 2030. But 23% of all roles will go through major disruption. And roughly 1 i
Duolingo CEO: AI Won't Take Your Job — But Someone Using It Will (And Here's What to Do Now) | Luis von Ahn
📌 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 users and $1B in the bank — and he's never done a single layoff. While every other CEO is blaming AI for firing people, he's hiring more.In this episode, Luis breaks down exactly h
Nobel Prize Winner: What Quantum Computing Does to AI, Bitcoin, and Your Data | John Martinis
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 Trump's new tech advisory council, alongside Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Jensen Huang. And he has a very different read on where this is all going.In this episode: why quantum
How to Build an AI Brain in 1 Hour: 3 Documents, Zero Coding — Allie K. Miller
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 firm, Open Machine, works with Novartis, ServiceNow, Warner Bros. Discovery — and she's advised Reid Hoffman and Melinda French Gates's Pivotal Ventures. In 2025 Allie w
Ex-Google Exec: How to Position Yourself Now Before the Next AI Phase (2026–2027) | Mo Gawdat
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 new grad hiring has collapsed, and how he built an AI startup in 6 weeks instead of 4 years. Mo Gawdat is former Chief Business Officer at Google X and one of the few tech insiders sa
The AI Skills Gap Is Real: Google VP on Why People Are Falling Behind and What to Do Right Now | Yossi Matias
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 that we already passed the inflection point and most of us didn't notice because we adapted. In this conversation: 6 things changing how we work right now, why one person can now do the
Gary Vee: The AI Opportunity Is Real — You're Just Looking at It Wrong
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 most dangerous place to be right now, and the mindset that separates people who thrive from people who freeze. One of the most honest takes on AI, ambition, and identity I've he
Job Market 2026: What's Actually Happening with Layoffs
AI layoffs are everywhere — but is this really about AI, or are companies just using it as an excuse? I sat down with Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, who has access to data most people never see — and her answer will change how you think about your career. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly which jobs are at risk, which skills will matter most by 2030
6 Out of 10 People Regret Their Career Choice. Here's What to Do Differently in the AI Era | Bill Gurley on the Future of Work
Bill Gurley spent 25 years watching careers get made and destroyed. He just wrote "Runnin' Down a Dream" and his take on AI is the opposite of what most people are telling you right now. He backed companies worth over $50B. The people he watched lose everything weren't the ones who took risks. They were the ones who played it safe. In this episode: how AI is changing your job, wh
Future of Work 2026: The Only Jobs That Will Survive the AI Era
AI is transforming the job market, and in this video we break down why layoffs are happening and which roles are actually at risk. You’ll learn what to do in your current job, which skills will matter most in the future, and why you need to build a strong personal brand in the AI era. We’ll also explore whether education still matters — and finish with a clear 3-step plan to make yourself irreplac
Stanford AI Expert: 71% of People Won't Survive the AI Shift — Here's the 30-Minute Fix | Kian Katanforoosh, CEO Workera
Stanford AI Expert Kian Katanforoosh tested 22,000+ people on their AI skills — 71% dangerously overestimate or underestimate their level. In this interview with Marina Mogilko, Kian breaks down what separates AI adoption from proficiency, why 95% of AI agents fail in production, which skills survive the next decade, and his 90-day plan to get ahead. Kian is CEO of Workera, Stanford lecturer, and
How to Build a $1M AI Business with 2 people in 90 Days | Alex Mashrabov, Founder and CEO of Higgsfield AI
Alex Mashrabov grew Higgsfield AI to $200M ARR in 9 months — faster than Slack, Zoom, or Dropbox. In this episode, he shares the exact AI startup playbook: $0 to first dollar in 30 days, $1M ARR in 90. In this episode he shares the exact playbook: how to go from $0 to your first dollar by day 30, and $1M ARR by day 90. This conversation is for anyone who wants to start something but keeps thinking
LinkedIn Founder: Double Your Income With AI Before It's Too Late | Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, was an early investor in OpenAI, and has backed more AI companies than most people can name. In this episode he says we're only 5% into the AI revolution — and explains exactly what the next 95% means for your career, your business, and your income.Topics covered:Why we're only 5% into the AI boom — and what's actually comingAI basics every non-technical person ne
LinkedIn CEO: How to Stay Employed When AI Replaces Your Job | Ryan Roslansky
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn and Executive Vice President at Microsoft. Ryan has access to the world's definitive labor market data—and what it shows about AI and jobs isn't what you're hearing in the headlines.Topics covered:Why 50% of college graduates are unemployed/underemployed (and what's actually broken)The 1.3 milli
Godfather of AI: AI Already Has Goals We Never Gave It — Here's What That Means for You | Yoshua Bengio
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of AI and winner of the Turing Award. As a pioneer who helped create the deep learning systems that power today's AI revolution, Yoshua now dedicates his work to understanding—and preventing—the catastrophic risks AI could pose to humanity.Yoshua explains why we have roughly 5 years before AI
How to Make AI Your Strategic Partner in 38 Minutes | Conor Grennan
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Conor Grennan, Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business and founder of AI Mindset.Conor works with Fortune 500 companies and teaches thousands of business leaders how to actually work with AI—not just use it like Google. His core insight: most people aren't behind on AI because of tools, they're behind because
How to build a Unicorn outside the US with AI | Arsen Tomsky, Founder InDrive
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Arsen Tomsky, founder and CEO of inDrive - a $1B+ ride-sharing platform with 60 million active users that he built from Yakutsk, one of the coldest cities on Earth.Arsen shares his wild journey from a stuttering software engineer to global entrepreneur, revealing how he turned a taxi price protest on social media into a billion-
The Great Career Reset in the Age of AI | Yamini Rangan, HubSpot CEO
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot—a $30 billion company powering millions of businesses worldwide.Yamini shares her journey from arriving in the U.S. with $200 to leading one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. She breaks down the 3 skills companies are hiring for in the AI era, why past success can block future growth
How AI Is Reshaping Business and Who Will Win | Oscar Höglund (CEO, Epidemic Sound)
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Oscar Höglund, CEO and co-founder of Epidemic Sound, the $1.4B music platform powering more than 3 billion daily views worldwide.Oscar shares the frameworks behind scaling a global company, including how to truly understand value chains, why AI should be used to democratize professional tools, and why the “Three Whys” analysis m
$215M AI CEO: How I’d Build a Profitable AI Startup in 30 Days (2026 Playbook)
Young Zhao is the CEO of OpusClip, one of the fastest-growing AI tools with 50M users and a $215M valuation.In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko talks with Young about how he built a profitable AI startup after multiple failed attempts. They break down a realistic 2026 playbook for founders — how to find a problem worth solving, when to pivot, how to get your first users, and how
Mel Robbins: How to Get Ahead in 2026 When Everything Feels Uncertain
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Mel Robbins — bestselling author ("Let Them," "The 5 Second Rule"), entrepreneur, and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast, one of the top podcasts in the world (recently nominated for a Golden Globe).Mel breaks down why anxiety happens, how to separate yourself from the alarm going off in your body, and why that restless feeling mig
GM CEO Mary Barra: How AI Will Redefine Driving by 2028
The future of driving is closer than you think. I sat down with Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, who’s behind the latest breakthroughs in autonomous cars — including the new “eyes-off” system that lets you stop watching the road. I saw how AI will soon plan your routes, learn your habits, and even take your car to service on its own. This is the technology that will completely change how we move
CEO of Microsoft AI: The Next 10 Years Will Change Humanity Forever | Mustafa Suleyman
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind, to explore how AI is reshaping the future of work, education, and everyday life.Mustafa has spent the last decade building the systems that sparked the modern AI revolution. Today, he’s leading Microsoft AI and shaping how billions of people will interact with int
How AI Is Breaking the Rules of Biology | Dr. Priscilla Chan, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Dr. Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to explore how AI is reshaping the future of medicine.Together with Mark Zuckerberg, they’ve committed 99% of their wealth to building Biohubs and developing the world’s first virtual cell models — AI systems that can simulate life at the cellular level
Google’s AI Search Expert: How to Get Ahead Before AI Changes Everything | Robby Stein
What makes AI recommend one business - and ignore another? In this interview, Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, breaks down how AI now decides what gets discovered, ranked, and recommended - and what founders, creators, and marketers can do to stay visible in the new era of search. Links: Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/My Instagram: https://www.instagram
Daniel Priestley: How to Get Ahead while Others Get Replaced
In this interview, Daniel Priestley, UK Entrepreneur of the Year and founder of multiple multi-million dollar businesses, shares his no-nonsense take on the future of work in the AI age. He breaks down why AI will likely wipe out wages in the next 5 years, replacing repetitive jobs that can be automated. Daniel reveals how entrepreneurs can leverage AI to stay ahead, protect their careers, and thr
$6.6B AI CEO: How to Make Your First $10,000 with AI | ElevenLabs CEO & Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski
In this interview, Mati Staniszewski, CEO & co-founder of @ElevenLabs, unpacks the future of voice AI—from real sales/support voice agents that speak any language in your voice, to a voice marketplace already paying creators millions, to the safeguards we’ll need as agents start calling… other agents. We dig into practical playbooks, real costs, the tools to use, and where the next $10k-a-mont
Perplexity CEO: AI Is About to Change the Internet Forever | Aravind Srinivas
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl with Marina Mogilko features an interview with Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming careers, education, and decision-making, while shifting power from corporations to individuals.Founded in 2022, Perplexity has grown at remarkable speed - by 2025, the company reached a valuation of $20 bi
Anthropic CPO: How to Start a $100M Company as a Solo Founder | Mike Krieger
In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and CPO at Anthropic, to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping entrepreneurship and work itself.Mike's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeyk/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger/Links: Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/Companie
$1.5B AI Founder: This Is Your Golden Age to Build With AI | Jesse Zhang, CEO Decagon
What will happen to jobs in the age of AI? Jesse Zhang, co-founder of $1.5B startup Decagon, joins me to talk about how AI agents are changing the future of work. We dive into which roles are disappearing, which new ones are being created, and the skills you need to stay competitive. Jesse also shares his journey of building one of the fastest-growing AI companies in Silicon Valley, advice for new
Replit CEO: How to build a $1B Company in 2 days | Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad, the founder and CEO of Replit, sits down with Marina Mogilko to discuss how AI is revolutionizing the future of business and how solopreneurs can now build a $1B company in just a few years.If you’ve ever wondered how to launch your own AI-powered business, what vibe coding really means, or how AI is changing the rules of entrepreneurship, this episode is for you!Links: Follow my News
Alex Divinsky: AI Stocks Investment Strategy for 2025
In this video, Alex Divinsky @TickerSymbolYOU is living off his investments — and in this interview, he reveals how to live entirely off an AI-driven investing strategy.The AI boom: are we in a bubble or not?His bold portfolioHow to spot winners before Wall Street doesThe psychology of investing (why behavior = 90% of your returns)His advice for average investors who don’t want to spend 40 hours
Thomas Wolf: Everyone’s Using AI Wrong — Here’s How to Actually Win | Hugging Face CSO Explains
Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source machine learning models, datasets, and applications, joins us to talk about the future of open-source AI, how non-coders can build powerful apps, what it really means to “own” your AI-generated content, and how robotics and LLMs are reshaping our world—from startups to our kids’ education.We also dive into the future of
Cassey Ho: I Built a Multi-Million Dollar Brand With Zero Ad Spend | @Blogilates
She started with YouTube workouts for 40 people — and ended up building two multi-million dollar apparel brands. In this honest, behind-the-scenes conversation, Cassey Ho (Blogilates) talks about content, community, AI theft, burnout, growth, and what it really takes to build something real in 2025.Links: Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/Companies & Products:
GitHub CEO: Why Now Is the BEST Time to Be a Developer | Thomas Dohmke
In this episode, Marina Mogilko interviews Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub — the world’s largest platform for developers. He shares why now is the most exciting time to be a developer, how AI is reshaping developers work, how “vibe coding” changes everything, and what skills actually matter in the AI-powered future of work.Links: Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.comCompan
Marie Forleo: Unlock the Real Reason You’re Stuck (and How to Move Forward)
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