BREAKING: I Got Interviewed!
Alex Karp, Top 100 List, & How Sourcery is Growing SO Fast!
After interviewing 200+ founders, CEOs, & investors on Sourcery, I got to switch seats and be the one answering questions.
I joined Paige Finn Doherty, Founder of Behind Genius Ventures, for the 100th episode of her podcast.
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Paige is an investor and entrepreneur building Behind Genius Ventures, an early-stage VC firm backing ambitious founders across applied AI and frontier technology. She’s also a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and author of Seed to Harvest.
We got into my journey from art school to venture capital, leaving institutional investing to build Sourcery full-time, and some of the unconventional strategies that helped grow the platform.
A few highlights:
How an internal VC deal newsletter became Sourcery
Why I went all-in on X after Elon acquired Twitter, now X
My contrarian approach to funding announcement exclusives
How the Sourcery 100 dream guest list helped land 20%+ of my dream interviews
The Alex Karp interview and infamous sword-swinging moment
We also discussed my vision for Sourcery and building open-source expert calls with the world’s most influential founders and investors.
Huge congrats to Paige on 100 episodes!! It was so fun getting to reverse roles for this one!!
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
00:25 Alex Karp, Sam Altman..
01:26 Lemonade stands in Connecticut & growing up with two entrepreneur parents
03:59 Drawing houses in Moleskines and teaching herself dimensions
06:14 Using art to stand out
08:32 Why the USC Architecture program failed her ROI test
11:17 Discovering VC at Google’s 30 Weeks incubator
15:12 Breaking into VC
18:44 How Sourcery started as an internal deal newsletter
22:53 Why she went all-in on X when Elon took over
27:41 Breaking news vs. timeless content, and a funding-announcement playbook
31:34 What frustrates her: companies that don’t amplify their own interviews
34:21 Her Top 100 dream-guest list
38:06 How the list landed Alex Karp
40:55 Alex Karp: The first walking interview and the sword
46:17 Jack Altman: “It’s my brother”
48:28 Dry humor, Will Ferrell, and learning to smile
49:53 The next list, and landing 20%+ of the first one in a year
51:24 How Molly chooses guests
55:41 Her vision for Sourcery: more walk-and-talks, factory tours, future list
1:01:36 Molly asks Paige about Behind Genius Ventures
1:05:28 What we’re each manifesting for the next 12 months
NEW TOP 100 LIST!!!
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