SVIC Podcast

Sully Omar is the co-founder of Ottogrid (formerly Cognosys), an agentic-AI startup acquired by Cohere in 2025.🔥 Want more than just watching? At Patreon.com/svic you can 🎤 ask questions directly to our future guests top tech professionals from Silicon Valley and beyond 🌉, while supporting the show and unlocking insider perks. We livestream every 📅 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at ⏰ 12 PM PST...

Christa Laser is a tenured professor of intellectual property and innovation law at Cleveland State University’s College of Law, after nearly a decade as an IP litigator at WilmerHale and Kirkland & Ellis. Her work focuses on patents, trademarks, advertising, and technology/AI, and she speaks and consults on IP strategy and courts. Free conference on IP Litigation (Nov 14th) Sign up here: http...

Raiza Martin is the co-founder of Huxe, an audio-first personal AI assistant, after previously serving as Senior Product Manager for AI at Google Labs, where she led NotebookLM (including the “Audio Overviews” feature). At Huxe she’s building agentic, retrieval-aware assistants and has written publicly about testing coding agents and shipping consumer AI. Don’t miss it. Try their app at: https://w...

Yigit Ihlamur is the co-founder & General Partner at Vela Partners, a product-lead, AI native VC that’s backed 40+ AI startups since 2017. Before Vela he was a senior program manager at Google, and he holds an MSc in Computer Science (AI/ML focus) from Oxford. Today he builds and deploys AI agents across the venture stack, sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support, to make VC faster, cheaper,...

Yana Welinder, CEO & Founder of Kraftful (acquired by Amplitude). Yana shares her journey from Y Combinator and Harvard alum to a16z scout, Pioneer Fund SVP, Stanford fellow, and founder of VCBackedMoms. Learn what it's like to create a great product, get acquired, and partner with a16Z to find top startups. Patreon.com/svic to keep us on the air. We live stream every Monday, Wednesday and...

Dan Sheehan is a wealth strategist who helps individuals, families, and business owners grow and protect their wealth through disciplined portfolio management and tax-efficient planning. He’s a PhD candidate in Business–Finance, with an MBA and an MSc in Data Analytics, blending academic rigor with practical market insight. Dan also writes Market Pulse, a daily stock market newsletter offering mac...

Patreon.com/svic to keep us on the air. We live stream every monday, wednesday and friday at 12pm pst. Max Ghenis is a policy entrepreneur, technologist, and economist. Co-founder and CEO of PolicyEngine, a nonprofit that builds software to compute the impact of public policy: https://policyengine.org/. Previously, he founded the UBI Center, a think tank conducting quantitative research into unive...

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Adam Thierer is a senior fellow for the R Street Institute’s Technology & Innovation team. He works to make the world safe for innovators and entrepreneurs by pushing for a policy vision that is rooted in the idea of “permissionless innovation.”We live stream every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.👉Don't miss our hundred hours of bonus episodes, we release one new one every wednesday! We’re...

👉Don't miss our hundred hours of bonus episodes, we release one new one every wednesday! We’re giving away 1 month of access to our bonus content (Deep Dives into IPOs, M&A Activity, private interviews, reactions and more!) and Discord—no credit card, no strings. Grab it here: svicpodcast.com/gift or subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SVICPodcast/join🔗 Follow SVIC:• Twitter:...

A wild ride through AI drama, OpenAI’s strategy, insane tech compensation, chip wars with China, and the hilarious chaos of using AI agents—plus a bizarre North Korean remote work scam straight out of a cyber-thriller. 🖐Don’t miss our hundred hours of bonus episodes, we release one new one every wednesday! We’re giving away 1 month of access to our bonus content (Deep Dives into IPOs, M&A Acti...

In-depth discussion on GPT-5’s rollout, technical improvements, competitive landscape, and its broader impact on AI, coding, privacy, and industry trends.👉Don't miss our hundred hours of bonus episodes and our discord community, we release one new one every wednesday! We’re giving away 1 month of access to our bonus content (Deep Dives into IPOs, M&A Activity, private interviews, reaction...

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👉Don't miss our hundred hours of bonus episodes, we release one new one every wednesday! We’re giving away 1 month of access to our bonus content (Deep Dives into IPOs, M&A Activity, private interviews, reactions and more!) and Discord—no credit card, no strings. Grab it here: svicpodcast.com/gift or subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SVICPodcast/join🔗 Follow SVIC:• Twitter:...

You're missing 50% of our content, head to patreon.com/svic and join! Join our 120 member private discord at patreon.com/svicLex Fridman's interview with Narendra Modi: AI, India’s tech landscape, and the global AI race, with insights on Modi’s interview, regulatory challenges, and the future of AI innovation. Videos mentioned:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDiWci5V_Dg&ab_channel=SVIC...

We react to the All-In Podcast. In this conversation, the hosts discuss Elon Musk's data center, Grok 3, AI, Stable coins, the importance of constraints in fostering innovation, the pitfalls of overfunding startups, and the ongoing debate about the merits of going public versus remaining private. Don't miss today's bonus episode live stream on youtube for our paid members. Go to patreo...

We react to Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Satya Nadella about Microsoft's AGI plan & Quantum. Don't miss today's bonus episode live stream on youtube for our paid members. Go to patreon.com/svic so you don't miss it! Svicpodcast.com: For Questions, Book recs, Videos, Newsletters, etc.patreon.com/svicFollow us:Threads: www.threads.net/@svicpodcastTwitter: https://x.com/svi...

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ideos Mentioned:Googlers React To Google Gemini Going Woke: How Google's AI Ethicists Ruined Gemini's Reputation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CPN8gSxnDQ&ab_channel=SVICPodcastvGoogle Director reacts to All In Podcast: DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spendhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdA190nl6TI&ab_channel=SVICPodcastGoogle Director reacts to Lex Fridman...

Svicpodcast.com: For Questions, Book recs, Videos, Newsletters, etc. patreon.com/svic Follow us: Threads: www.threads.net/@svicpodcast Twitter: https://x.com/svicpodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/svicpodcast Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@svicpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/svicpodcast Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/svicpodcast Show hosts Joe (Eng V...

Mark Taylor and Eugene Litvak join us to discuss the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system and share insights on how to address them. Their book, Hospital, Heal Thyself: One Brilliant Mathematician's Proven Plan for Saving Hospitals and Many Lives, dives into innovative solutions to transform healthcare. Check it out here: https://amzn.to/3OUR0Lt They discuss Eugene's journey from the Sovie...

Jordan review's the ChatGPR Pro announcement. Tomorrow we will back on the air at 10AM PST for the next announcement, subscribe so you don't miss it! 🎄 Christmas Sale! 🎁 Get 50% Off Your First Month of Premium Membership which allows you to access our Bonus Episodes and Private Discord! Sign up at patreon.com/svic Join our free weekly newsletter so you don't miss all of the tech news: https://sv...

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