Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

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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🎧 Episode with Linked CEO Ryan Roslansky about the future of work:https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sa1EeC262QyyZow3bfwYY?si=55maoBEITMWE02O8rV78nQ

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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.

We cover:
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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