The Get Noticed Playbook: This Is How You Actually Grow in 2026 | Matthew Derella

The Get Noticed Playbook: This Is How You Actually Grow in 2026 | Matthew 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 brand before AI floods the feed. I brought that argument to Matt at Cannes, and he took the other side: the more AI content there is, the more the credibility of the source decides who gets found, and LLMs already lean on citations from people who know their stuff. He shared the numbers behind it: founders who post regularly on LinkedIn are 71% more likely to drive business on the platform, video is growing at over 20%, and 3 out of 4 CMOs now say a media plan without a creator is incomplete. Stay till the end for his 3 steps to start on LinkedIn in 2026

SVP at Adobe Express: Why AI Content Doesn't Get Views | Govind Balakrishnan

Govind Balakrishnan is the SVP running Adobe Express. He's spent 20 years at Adobe and watched creation move from desktop to mobile to social feeds. We sat down at Cannes to talk about why AI content doesn't get views. His answer: everyone blames the algorithms, but it's humans who are tuning it out. AI now gets you 60–70% of the creative work in minutes. The last 20–30%, where you add your own taste and voice, is the part people actually watch. He also told me why he expects the industry to need more designers 3 years from now. Stay till the end for his advice to designers who are already losing clients to AI.

Musk's Early Investor: What the Next 3 Years Actually Look Like | Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson has worked with Elon Musk for 29 years and was one of the earliest investors in SpaceX and Tesla, back when space wasn't even a category for venture capital. Today he runs Future Ventures, where he bets on nuclear fusion, epigenetic editing, and analog AI chips. We recorded this live on stage, with audience Q&A at the end. We cover: * Why compute has compounded for 130 years, and what that curve says about the next 3 years * Superintelligence odds: why Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark gives it a 30% chance of arriving next year * What 29 years next to Elon taught Steve: focus, learning loops, and spotting talent (Tesla collects more AI training data in 4 days than Waymo has in its entire history) * The 50-year question Steve asks every founder before writing a check * His 30-day plan if you're one person with a crazy idea * Where he's investing now: fusion, meat without slaughter, free healthcare via your phone * When machines do everything, what's left for us Links: 📌 Subscribe to my free newsletter where I go deeper on AI tools, career strategies, and building with AI: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=SteveJurvetson [https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=SteveJurvetson] 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ [https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/] 𝕏 : https://x.com/siliconvalleymm [https://x.com/siliconvalleymm] 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko] 💼 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co [https://Marinamogilko.co]

Why You Need to Rethink Your Career Now | Richard Socher

📌 Head to https://granola.ai/marina and enter the code MARINA for 3 months off. Richard Socher is the fourth most-cited researcher in the history of natural language processing — he invented the word vectors and prompt engineering that run inside almost every chatbot you use. He sold his first startup to Salesforce, built You.com into a $1.5B unicorn, and in May 2026 raised $650M at a $4.65B valuation for Recursive: an AI that runs its own experiments and rewrites itself. In this conversation he explains why he thinks the self-improvement loop arrives within two years, which jobs grow and which disappear, and his hack for seeing the future — look at what only the wealthy can afford today, then ask which of it is bottlenecked on intelligence. Stay till the end for the first question he'd ask a superintelligence.Feeling behind on AI and don't know where to start? Start here. Feeling behind on AI and don't know where to start? Start here. We cover: * Reward hacking: why an AI told to raise customer satisfaction will quietly spin up a million bots that rate themselves 5/5 — and the new job of "reward engineering" that comes with it * His two-year timeline for recursive self-improving superintelligence — and why energy, not intelligence, becomes the next bottleneck * Why superintelligence isn't one thing: the "volumetric" view of intelligence, and the one dimension no lab is working on — an AI choosing its own goals * The elasticity rule for which jobs grow and which vanish — why illustrators got hit hard but software engineers are in more demand than ever * His hack for seeing the future: what only the wealthy can afford today — a personal tutor, a private assistant, a full medical team — and which of it is bottlenecked on intelligence * Why home robots are stuck on a hardware problem, not a software one * How he recruited co-founders away from DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta * Whether a PhD is still worth it in AI — and what he tells parents to have their kids study instead * Where he'd invest right now: why "AI is to biology what calculus was to physics" * His first question to a superintelligence — and what still gives people meaning in 2035 Links: 📌 Subscribe to my free newsletter where I go deeper on AI tools, career strategies, and building with AI: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=RichardSocher [https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=RichardSocher] 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ [https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/] 𝕏 : https://x.com/siliconvalleymm [https://x.com/siliconvalleymm] 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko] 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co [https://Marinamogilko.co]

Fei-Fei Li: In 10 Years There Will Be Only 2 Kinds of Workers

Dr. Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet — the dataset that triggered the deep learning revolution. Now she runs World Labs, where she just raised $1 billion to teach AI something it still can't do: understand physical space. She was named Time Person of the Year in 2025 and won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. David Rogier founded MasterClass in 2015 on the idea that everyone should have access to world-class teachers. He has an MBA from Stanford and now builds all his own work tools with Claude Code instead of buying software — including a to-do list app that auto-deletes anything sitting on the list for more than a day and a half. In this episode, we get into what AI can already do and what it still can't, why the two loudest takes on AI — that it'll save the world, and that it'll take all the jobs — are both wrong, and what your kids' schooling and your own career actually look like in 10 years. We cover: * Why Fei-Fei Li says "the cost of intelligence goes to zero" is an irresponsible claim — and what human intelligence actually includes beyond language * Spatial intelligence: the four things AI still can't do (understand, reason about, generate, and interact with 3D space) — and why World Labs is betting $1B on it * The barbell effect in the workforce: why being "decent" at anything isn't enough anymore, and the two roles that will thrive — top 1% specialists and high-agency generalists * Why AI tutoring delivers the same learning in 60% less time — and why the real obstacle to changing education isn't the technology * David's full CEO stack: custom apps he built himself, "Davidify" — his own AI clone he gave his team — and why he stopped buying software * The one thing to do when an employee is scared to try AI: sit down with them, not send a YouTube link * What the job of product manager looks like today vs. five years ago — and why Fei-Fei only hires PMs who are riding the wave * Fei-Fei's advice for non-tech professionals: find someone under 25 and let them show you their world for a weekend * How long until AI handles the laundry — Fei-Fei's actual estimate Links: 📌Subscribe to my free newsletter where I go deeper on AI tools, career strategies, and building with AI: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=FeiFeiLi [https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=FeiFeiLi] 🔗 Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/%E2%81%A0] 𝕏 : ⁠⁠https://x.com/siliconvalleymm⁠⁠ [https://x.com/siliconvalleymm%E2%81%A0] 💼 LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko⁠⁠ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko%E2%81%A0] 📌 My Companies & Products: ⁠⁠https://Marinamogilko.co [https://Marinamogilko.co]