Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

Shishir Mehrotra ran product for YouTube, founded Coda, and has sat on Spotify's board for over a decade. He now runs Superhuman, the company behind Grammarly, which 40 million people use every day.In this episode, he reverses the career advice he gave for twenty years — stop trying to be a great executor, start learning to manage. He explains why the best jobs never come through the recruiting funnel, walks through the framework he built at Google for how promotions actually work, and points to the moment mid-career where the rules quietly change and most people panic. He pushes back on the word "replaced," gives away the interview question he used for hundreds of hires until he talked about it publicly too much, and shares what Bill Campbell told him in 2000 that changed how he measures his own success.📩 7 skills that get you promoted —https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/p/7-skills-that-make-you-irreplaceable-adc6?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=7-skills
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Seven people who run companies employing more than 30,000 people answer the same question: who are you hiring right now? Sal Khan, Yamini Rangan, Aaron Levie, Luana Lopes Lara, Grant Lee, and Conor Grennan get unusually specific about what they look for in you before the interview starts and what makes them say yes. And Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn for six years, opens up LinkedIn's own data. By the end, you have a step-by-step plan for getting hired in 2026.

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Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera, built the founding team at Google Brain, and has taught roughly 8 million people AI.
In this episode, he pushes back on the AI job panic making the rounds this year, walks through the actual math on how much of a job AI can automate, and explains why he thinks universities are still teaching students for a job market from 2022. He also gets specific about what he looks for when hiring marketers, recruiters, and ops people now — and admits that despite building his career on AI education companies, AI is currently terrible for learning.

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What if the highest-paying jobs today are the onesdisappearing first?Erik Brynjolfsson is Stanford's leading AI economist,director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and one ofthe most cited voices on how technology reshapes theworkforce. He's spent decades studying which jobs getdestroyed, which get created, and who wins in everymajor shift.In this Moment, Erik Brynjolfsson names the specificprofessions being replaced right now, why radiologistsare thriving while paralegals are losing ground, and theone skill he believes every worker needs to become theCEO of their own AI agents.Listen to the full episode here!Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mqN4S2Q48iHMyBKSBFey8?si=vqmIay61RLGyZl9RWoHzVwApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/silicon-valley-girl-ai-tech-and-career-growth/id1819090545?i=1000777720945Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/72duHF7iZiU?si=YSY7h6rPhR9-A4yW

What if the most powerful language models on Earthare missing the one piece that makes intelligence real?Fei-Fei Li is the "Godmother of AI" who built thedataset that made modern artificial intelligencepossible, spent years leading Stanford's AI Lab,and now runs World Labs, a $1 billion startupbuilding the next frontier of AI.Fei-Fei Li reveals the missing piece of intelligencethat language models can't see, the four abilitiesthat make it up, and what her billion-dollar startupis racing to build to solve it.
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