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.
Latest episodes
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48 min
Claude Engineering Lead: "Stop Using Claude Like It’s 2024"
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 o…
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55 min
Google’s James Manyika: Who Actually Gets Paid in the AI Economy
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 ab…
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34 min
Brian Chesky: People Who Know What to Build With AI Will Pull Ahead
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 becom…
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43 min
Nobel Economist: Where He Sees The Real Money in AI | Daron Acemoglu
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 se…
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30 min
OpenAI Co-Founder: Start Building With AI Before You Feel Ready | Greg Brockman
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…
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18 min
TOP 10 Highest-Paying Jobs for the next 10 years (and 5 jobs that have NO future)
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…
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32 min
$13B Lovable Co-Founder: Build a Profitable AI Product From Scratch in 30 Minutes
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 businesse…
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37 min
Superhuman CEO: AI Moved the Career Ladder (Most People Don't See It Yet) | Shishir Mehrotra
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 peo…
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21 min
Top 1% Career Playbook: How to Get Hired in the AI Era
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, Gra…
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36 min
Andrew Ng: The Biggest Opportunities in AI Aren't Where You Think
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 ro…
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20 min
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 ones disappearing first?Erik Brynjolfsson is Stanford's leading AI economist,director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and one of…
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18 min
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 a…
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32 min
$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…
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17 min
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 Valle…
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14 min
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…
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1 h 00
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 th…
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51 min
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…
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40 min
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 de…
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42 min
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…
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17 min
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…