Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

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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