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    Mark Pincus: How to Build Billion-Dollar Products

    23/06/2026 | 1h 27 mins.
    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
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    What a $75 Million Airplane Actually Costs to Own

    20/06/2026 | 1h 22 mins.
    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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    Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI

    18/06/2026 | 44 mins.
    Gabe Pereyra is the co-founder and President of Harvey. Before Harvey, he was an AI researcher at Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, working on deep learning at both Brain and DeepMind in 2016 and 2017 as the field was taking off. Valued at $11B, Harvey has passed $300M ARR, 960 employees, 2,000 customers, and roughly 13 trillion tokens processed this month.
    Harvey has raised over $1.2B to date from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, Coatue, Elad Gil, the OpenAI Startup Fund, and GIC, with Sequoia and GIC co-leading the most recent $200M round at $11B.
    Niko Grupen is Harvey's Head of Applied Research. Both he and Gabe led the open-sourcing of LAB, the Legal Agent Benchmark, the first open-source benchmark for measuring AI agent performance on real-world legal tasks. LAB covers 1,200+ tasks across 24 practice areas, built with agent-led data generation reviewed by Big Law attorneys. Initial frontier-model results from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind posted today, with Claude Opus 4.7 leading the leaderboard.
    In this episode, Gabe and Niko sit down with Molly in Harvey's San Francisco speakeasy to break down what LAB measures, why Harvey gave the rubric to its biggest competitors, and what the early results show about long-horizon legal agents. Gabe goes deep on the token economics now hitting application-layer AI: single queries that cost $20, contract reviews that cost $20,000, and why he says Harvey is the largest embeddings consumer for some of the labs. He also covers the multi-model strategy, why open-source matters for law firm conflict risk, & the architectural shift from chat-based products to cloud agents.
    Niko closes with the methodology behind LAB, how Harvey generates synthetic legal data with agent-led generation and lawyer review, and what's next for the open-source legal research community.
    This is the second episode in Sourcery's Harvey series, following the last conversation with co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg.

    𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊
    YouTube: ⁠https://youtu.be/NpZbum0lmlI

    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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    Inside Harvey AI: $11B, $300M ARR, 960 Employees, 12 Offices, 13 Trillion Tokens a Month

    16/06/2026 | 38 mins.
    Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the $11 billion AI platform now used by 2/3 of the AmLaw 100 and 500+ in-house legal teams including HSBC, Bridgewater, Carvana, and Blue Owl.
    "I think every single company is going to sell intelligence."
    In this episode, Winston walks me through Harvey's San Francisco HQ and then sits down to break down the state of the business: roughly $300M ARR (up from $100M last August), 2,000 customers, 960 employees across 12 global offices, and token usage that jumped from 1 trillion in January to a projected 12-13 trillion this month.
    "It feels like if you do not constantly change, you are just gonna get so behind that you die as a company right now."
    Winston covers the shift to cloud agents, why Harvey's real competition is the foundation labs (not other legal tech companies), how to reinvent a company every 6 months, the future of vertical models, the billable hour problem coming for every AI buyer, and why every company will eventually sell intelligence.

    Winston Weinberg: https://x.com/winstonweinberg 
    Molly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea 
    Sourcery: ⁠https://x.com/sourceryy 

    𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊
    YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekXJCDNEmOM

    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) Winston Weinberg, Co-Founder & CEO at Harvey
    (00:45) Inside Harvey HQ
    (03:17) Harvey by the numbers
    (04:11) How Harvey expands globally
    (05:16) Why Harvey employs 200+ lawyers
    (06:30) The philosophy behind Harvey's office
    (07:35) The loudest lunch culture in tech
    (09:03) Winston's favorite room
    (10:04) Eight Airbnbs before a real office
    (12:58) Inside a $300M ARR company
    (14:20) Tripling revenue in under a year
    (15:35) What $1B+ unlocks
    (17:36) Building an AI native company
    (21:10) Convincing lawyers to join tech
    (22:14) The biggest adjustment for lawyers in tech
    (23:26) Build vs buy
    (26:59) What SaaS got away with that AI can't
    (28:39) Financing 13 trillion tokens
    (30:05) Why the labs can't just copy Harvey
    (31:18) Competing with OpenAI and Anthropic
    (32:03) Will the labs start acquiring?
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    TBPN, Jack Altman, a16z, Now It’s Lightspeed's Media Move

    15/06/2026 | 48 mins.
    Claire Zau is a pre-seed and seed investor at Lightspeed and co-host of Lightwork, Lightspeed's new weekly AI podcast with CMO Josh Machiz. She also runs Zauey Talks, where she reaches 350K+ people and 10M+ monthly impressions explaining AI and startups to an audience that mostly does not work in tech.
    Tech is racing to own direct distribution and auramax to save their lives. a16z acquired Erik Torenberg's Turpentine in 2025, OpenAI acquired TBPN in 2026, and Jack Altman's Uncapped joined Benchmark. Lightspeed's move was to bring in one of the strongest creators in the space and give her a dual mandate: keep building for the mainstream while investing at the earliest stages. 
    Molly sits down with Claire to talk about that split role, why Lightspeed bet on it, and what Lightwork will cover. They get into the gap between tech Twitter optimism and mainstream skepticism, the AI bubble question, the jobs narrative, and which AI leaders tell the story best. Claire also breaks down the Lightspeed portfolio she's digging into, from agent infrastructure to an AI-native audit firm.
    About Lightspeed
    Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world including Abridge, Anthropic, Anduril, Castelion, Databricks, Glean, Mistral, Navan, Neko Health, Netskope, Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, Rubrik, Snap, Skild AI, Vinted, Wiz, and more.

    Claire Zau: https://x.com/clairejyz 
    Molly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea 
    Sourcery: ⁠https://x.com/sourceryy 

    𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊
    YouTube: https://youtu.be/ht_DuxWLh8M

    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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