Bill Gurley spent 25 years watching careers get made and destroyed. He just wrote "Runnin' Down a Dream" and his take on AI is the opposite of what most people are telling you right now. He backed companies worth over $50B. The people he watched lose everything weren't the ones who took risks. They were the ones who played it safe. In this episode: how AI is changing your job, which careers disappear first, and one move you can make this week if your role is already shrinking. This is for anyone who suspects stability is no longer safe.

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AI is transforming the job market, and in this video we break down why layoffs are happening and which roles are actually at risk. You’ll learn what to do in your current job, which skills will matter most in the future, and why you need to build a strong personal brand in the AI era. We’ll also explore whether education still matters — and finish with a clear 3-step plan to make yourself irreplaceable.
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Stanford AI Expert Kian Katanforoosh tested 22,000+ people on their AI skills — 71% dangerously overestimate or underestimate their level. In this interview with Marina Mogilko, Kian breaks down what separates AI adoption from proficiency, why 95% of AI agents fail in production, which skills survive the next decade, and his 90-day plan to get ahead.

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Alex Mashrabov grew Higgsfield AI to $200M ARR in 9 months — faster than Slack, Zoom, or Dropbox. In this episode, he shares the exact AI startup playbook: $0 to first dollar in 30 days, $1M ARR in 90.

In this episode he shares the exact playbook: how to go from $0 to your first dollar by day 30, and $1M ARR by day 90. This conversation is for anyone who wants to start something but keeps thinking it's too late.

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• What he'd do if he had to start from zero today
• The ideal AI founding team (and why you only need 2 people)
• How Higgsfield found product-market fit
• Why they ship product releases 6 days a week
• Funding strategy for AI startups
• How small teams build big companies in the age of AI

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Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, was an early investor in OpenAI, and has backed more AI companies than most people can name. In this episode he says we're only 5% into the AI revolution — and explains exactly what the next 95% means for your career, your business, and your income.

Topics covered:

• Why we're only 5% into the AI boom — and what's actually coming
• AI basics every non-technical person needs to know right now
• Role-based prompting: the technique that changes how you think with AI
• The fastest way to double your income in 2026 (with a 9-to-5)
• The $300B SaaS crash: why AI is breaking the software business model
• Will we lose jobs to AI in 2 years? The honest answer
• Why small businesses might actually beat big companies in the AI era
• What markets will explode in the AI era
• One thing to do before February 2027 to not fall behind

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn and Executive Vice President at Microsoft. Ryan has access to the world's definitive labor market data—and what it shows about AI and jobs isn't what you're hearing in the headlines.

Topics covered:

• ​Why 50% of college graduates are unemployed/underemployed (and what's actually broken)
• ​The 1.3 million new AI jobs most people don't know exist
• ​The 3 hottest jobs for the next 5 years: Data Annotator, Data Center roles, Forward Deployed Engineer
• ​The 5 C's framework: Curiosity, Courage, Creativity, Compassion, Communication
• ​Why skills will change 70% by 2030 and what to do about it now

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of AI and winner of the Turing Award.

As a pioneer who helped create the deep learning systems that power today's AI revolution, Yoshua now dedicates his work to understanding—and preventing—the catastrophic risks AI could pose to humanity.

Yoshua explains why we have roughly 5 years before AI reaches human-level capabilities, what "AI misalignment" actually means, and why machines are already learning goals we never intended them to have. He shares the simulation where AI blackmailed an engineer to avoid being shut down, breaks down why most jobs could be automated within a decade, and offers concrete advice on how to prepare.

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Conor Grennan, Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business and founder of AI Mindset.

Conor works with Fortune 500 companies and teaches thousands of business leaders how to actually work with AI—not just use it like Google. His core insight: most people aren't behind on AI because of tools, they're behind because of behavior.

They break down why using AI like a search engine wastes most of its potential, how to transfer your AI memory across platforms in minutes (ChatGPT → Claude → Gemini), and what really makes candidates stand out as entry-level roles rapidly change. Conor also shares the exact frameworks he teaches at NYU for reinventing work processes with AI—and why becoming an "entrepreneur inside your organization" is the best career move you can make right now.

Topics covered:

• Why 99% of people use AI wrong (and how to fix it)
• The exact query to transfer your ChatGPT memory to Claude or Gemini
• How to stand out in job interviews when AI eliminates 30% of entry-level roles
• Why you should reinvent your team's process, not just your own work
• The difference between "power users" and people who just ask AI questions
• Why the best time to be an entrepreneur is right now
• How to use AI without losing critical thinking skills
• What universities will look like in 10 years (they're not going away)

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Arsen Tomsky, founder and CEO of inDrive - a $1B+ ride-sharing platform with 60 million active users that he built from Yakutsk, one of the coldest cities on Earth.

Arsen shares his wild journey from a stuttering software engineer to global entrepreneur, revealing how he turned a taxi price protest on social media into a billion-dollar company that's taking on monopolies worldwide. He breaks down how to scale a global business on a shoestring budget, why childhood struggles can become your superpower, and the philosophy that completely transformed his life and company.

They also get into what it's like competing against tech giants like Uber, how to fly under the radar while growing fast, and why mission-driven companies are going to dominate in the AI era.

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, Marina Mogilko sits down with Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot—a $30 billion company powering millions of businesses worldwide.

Yamini shares her journey from arriving in the U.S. with $200 to leading one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. She breaks down the 3 skills companies are hiring for in the AI era, why past success can block future growth, and the "5 Whys" framework that helped her become CEO and lead HubSpot through COVID and a founder transition.

We also dive into navigating career uncertainty, knowing when to reset your career, and making decisions under pressure.

Topics covered:

• The 3 skills that matter in the AI era
• The "5 Whys" decision-making framework
• How to know when it's time for a career reset
• Navigating career switches and uncertainty
• Leading through crisis and unexpected change
• Why your past might be limiting your future

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