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Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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  • June 26 · 57 min

    Brian Armstrong: “Capitalism Lifts Everyone Up”

    Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO of Coinbase, sits down with Sourcery backstage ahead of the Coinbase System Update. We cover tokenized equities, an SEC-registered AI agent advisor, and the unified global liquidity approvals that bring Coinbase's offshore and US order books together. Brian explains why 4 billion people remain unbrokered, how the Everything Exchange works, and where pre-IPO perps fit as nearly $4 trillion in new IPOs come to market. On AI: 1,200 full-time agents now work at Coinbase, team sizes are shrinking to as few as 1 person, and intelligent routing to open source models is flattening the company's AI cost curve. Brian also gets into economic freedom, his time in Argentina, accredited investor reform, the New York Times, and the mentors he leans on. Brian Armstrong: https://x.com/brian_armstrong Molly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea Sourcery: ⁠https://x.com/sourceryy 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XLfNlShdATI 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒 • Brex—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, & travel. https://brex.com/sourcery • Turing—Turing delivers top-tier talent, data, and tools to help AI labs improve model performance—and enables enterprises to turn those models into powerful, production-ready systems. https://turing.com/sourcery • VCX—VCX is the public ticker for private tech, allowing investors of all sizes to invest in venture capital. View The Portfolio at http://GetVCX.com • Deel—Deel is the global people platform that helps startups hire, manage, pay, and equip anyone, anywhere. Trusted by more than 35,000 fast-growing companies, Deel is the people platform that just works, so teams can scale without the chaos. Visit: https://www.deel.com/sourcery • Public–Investing platform Public just launched Generated Assets, which lets you turn any idea into an investable index with AI. With Generated Assets, you can build, backtest, refine, and invest in any thesis with AI. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all ETFs. https://public.com/sourcery • Merge—The leading provider of customer-facing integrations and agentic tools for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Visit https://merge.dev Follow Sourcery for the latest updates! https://www.sourcery.vc Disclosure Paid Endorsement. Brokerage services by Open to the Public Investing Inc, member FINRA & SIPC. Advisory services by Public Advisors LLC, SEC-registered adviser. Crypto trading provided by Zero Hash LLC, licensed by the NYSDFS. Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool by Public Advisors. Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. See disclosures at public.com/disclosures/ga. Matched funds must remain in your account for at least 5 years. Match rate and other terms are subject to change at any time. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase (00:45) Backstage before the Announcements drop (01:47) Why Tokenized Stocks never worked before until now (03:58) Inside Coinbase Advisor: The SEC-Registered AI Investment Agent (05:36) The real mission behind every Coinbase product (06:55) Does the average American feel economically free? (08:42) What Argentina taught Brian about Capitalism (11:16) Why younger generations are drifting toward Socialism (13:01) What Roblox reveals about the next generation (13:57) Why no one in Argentina plans for the future (18:17) How Crypto is rewriting financial infrastructure (20:20) The Strategy behind Coinbase's "Everything Exchange" (21:28) Building the most trusted brand in the Crypto Industry (23:49) Prediction Markets, Dry Powder & Reading Market Cycles (26:07) The Pre-IPO loophole Coinbase built for everyone else (28:18) Why Coinbase wins the super app war (29:40) The tweet that got 24 million views (32:22) Will AI actually kill jobs? (36:03) How Brian stays on top of everything

  • June 23 · 1 hr 27 min

    Mark Pincus: How to Build Billion-Dollar Products

    Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga and author of the newly released Life at the Speed of Play (HarperCollins, foreword by Reid Hoffman), joins Sourcery to break down the framework he’s used over the past three decades to build hit products. Pincus took games like FarmVille and Words With Friends to more than 1 billion users in 4 years and a $12.7B exit, and was an early investor in Facebook, Twitter, and Polymarket. This conversation is a tactical playbook for builders and the investors backing them. Pincus covers separating winning instincts from losing ideas, his Proven Better New framework to increase odds of success, why consumer products win on “day 365 retention” instead of virality, how he represents the ‘dumb fucks’ and uses his iPhone home screen as market research, the tech assistant model and other unscalable hiring tactics he learned from Jeff Bezos, his new enterprise AI company Hivemind, how to spot a fake CEO, the 2006 think weekend he hosted with Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sean Parker, and why he is an AI maximalist who still thinks consumer AI is un-investable. Chapters below. Get the book now on Amazon or at lifeatthespeedofplay.com, and follow Mark on X @markpinc. Read more and subscribe to our newsletter at sourcery.vc. for more conversations with the operators and investors building the next cycle. Mark Pincus: https://x.com/markpinc Molly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea Sourcery: ⁠https://x.com/sourceryy 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 YouTube: https://youtu.be/2z-sSISO9BE 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒 • Brex—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, & travel. https://brex.com/sourcery • Turing—Turing delivers top-tier talent, data, and tools to help AI labs improve model performance—and enables enterprises to turn those models into powerful, production-ready systems. https://turing.com/sourcery • VCX—VCX is the public ticker for private tech, allowing investors of all sizes to invest in venture capital. View The Portfolio at http://GetVCX.com • Deel—Deel is the global people platform that helps startups hire, manage, pay, and equip anyone, anywhere. Trusted by more than 35,000 fast-growing companies, Deel is the people platform that just works, so teams can scale without the chaos. Visit: https://www.deel.com/sourcery • Public–Investing platform Public just launched Generated Assets, which lets you turn any idea into an investable index with AI. With Generated Assets, you can build, backtest, refine, and invest in any thesis with AI. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all ETFs. https://public.com/sourcery • Merge—The leading provider of customer-facing integrations and agentic tools for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Visit https://merge.dev Follow Sourcery for the latest updates! https://www.sourcery.vc Disclosure Paid Endorsement. Brokerage services by Open to the Public Investing Inc, member FINRA & SIPC. Advisory services by Public Advisors LLC, SEC-registered adviser. Crypto trading provided by Zero Hash LLC, licensed by the NYSDFS. Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool by Public Advisors. Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. See disclosures at public.com/disclosures/ga. Matched funds must remain in your account for at least 5 years. Match rate and other terms are subject to change at any time. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Mark Pincus, Chairman & Founder at Zynga (01:07) Why it took so long to write the book (01:52) Why the book starts with Elon (07:29) How frustration becomes market research (08:16) The gap between Airbnb and hotels (09:14) Why people don't want flight attendants on private jets (13:13) The goal behind Life at the Speed of Play (15:07) The instincts vs. ideas framework (21:01) Do instincts improve with experience? (22:49) A framework for building winning products

  • June 20 · 1 hr 22 min

    What a $75 Million Airplane Actually Costs to Own

    We are in the middle of the largest wealth creation event in modern history. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cerebras, Cursor, and more are heading to public markets or trading in secondaries, minting more millionaires and billionaires than ever on over $4 trillion dollars in expected liquidity. Flying private is one of the first things people want after a liquidity event, and it pulls them straight toward $75 million jets, often skipping every step the industry is used to. Israel ‘Izzy’ Slodowitz is the Founder of Craft, a Part 135 charter operator that also flies supplemental lift for NetJets, Flexjet, and Wheels Up. He turned that flying fleet into something most operators can't offer: an exchange fund built for the founders and early employees whose wealth is locked in a single stock. It takes in that concentrated position tax-deferred and backs it with real aircraft, not the self-storage and real estate that prop up legacy funds. Members diversify out of one position, defer the tax, and keep access to the planes. I joined him on one of their Challenger 350’s from Van Nuys to San Francisco to break down what this wave means for private aviation. Who is buying, what it really costs, why jets are appreciating for the first time, and why a generation whose net worth is locked in stock needs a structure the legacy ownership models were never built to offer. In this episode: The new-money buyer and the coming aircraft shortage Jet categories and prices, from light jets to the Global 8000 Buy vs charter vs jet card vs fractional, and when each makes sense Full cost of ownership: depreciation, pilots, maintenance, and downtime Exchange fund model and why an operating business changes the tax math Bonus depreciation, the 2025 tax bill, and the recapture trap Starlink, hidden fees, safety standards, and selling a jet in under an hour Video also features Captain Raz Matus. Craft: flycraft.com Israel Slodowitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/israel-slodowitz 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 YouTube: https://youtu.be/BKC-6UlXtBw 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒 • Brex—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, & travel. https://brex.com/sourcery • Turing—Turing delivers top-tier talent, data, and tools to help AI labs improve model performance—and enables enterprises to turn those models into powerful, production-ready systems. https://turing.com/sourcery • VCX—VCX is the public ticker for private tech, allowing investors of all sizes to invest in venture capital. View The Portfolio at http://GetVCX.com • Deel—Deel is the global people platform that helps startups hire, manage, pay, and equip anyone, anywhere. Trusted by more than 35,000 fast-growing companies, Deel is the people platform that just works, so teams can scale without the chaos. Visit: https://www.deel.com/sourcery • Public–Investing platform Public just launched Generated Assets, which lets you turn any idea into an investable index with AI. With Generated Assets, you can build, backtest, refine, and invest in any thesis with AI. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all ETFs. https://public.com/sourcery • Merge—The leading provider of customer-facing integrations and agentic tools for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Visit https://merge.dev Follow Sourcery for the latest updates! https://www.sourcery.vc Disclosure Paid Endorsement. Brokerage services by Open to the Public Investing Inc, member FINRA & SIPC. Advisory services by Public Advisors LLC, SEC-registered adviser. Crypto trading provided by Zero Hash LLC, licensed by the NYSDFS. Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool by Public Advisors. Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. See disclosures at public.com/disclosures/ga. Matched funds must remain in your account for at least 5 years. Match rate and other terms are subject to change at any time.

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