SOTA Wives

SOTA Wives

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  • Shutting down a startup, joining an AI lab, and leaving it | SOTA EP2

    The third SOTA wife has entered the chat, and this one is fresh off his exit at Anthropic.


    Sarah (Head of DevX at Cerebras) and Vivian (GP at Y Combinator) sit down with Thariq right after his last day at Anthropic.


    What was supposed to be a quiet start to his funemployment era turned into getting outed on Twitter, CEOs in his DMs, and a next-day debrief on the pod.


    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    01:16 Meet the third member: leaving Anthropic

    03:15 YC’s COVID batch

    05:17 Over-raising and shutting down Multiverse

    08:58 Toronto, Bay Area high schools and raising kids

    12:39 First impressions of SF and tech Twitter

    18:32 Going viral with Claude Code content

    20:26 Why Anthropic, and idolizing the labs

    22:33 Can startups survive the labs?

    29:53 Labs as Hogwarts houses, and friendly rivals

    35:21 Honeypots, spies and the apocalypse


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    40 min
  • Marrying young, getting rejected by YC, and getting canceled | SOTA S1E1

    “Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”


    Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, ⁠@MilksandMatcha⁠) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, ⁠@vivianmshen⁠).


    In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”


    4:08 Finding your husband before the exit

    8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?

    18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”

    20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?

    23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend

    28:54 SF cat parties

    33 min
  • SOTA Wives Trailer

    WTF is a SOTA Wife?

    SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley. We built it as an antidote to the performative polish of tech Twitter.

    Brought to you by Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).

    Episode 1 goes live on Monday, 12th October at 9 AM PT on everywhere you get your podcasts 💙❤️

    2 min

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SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley.