Sourcery (Podcast)

Since 2020 Sourcery has published a newsletter every Tuesday morning that rounds up venture capital deals and new fund announcements, organizes recently funded companies into sections such as fintech, health, enterprise and consumer, hard tech and sustainability, and adds the author’s take on technology trends; paid subscribers get full access to the archive of weekly deal roundups.⁠[1][1][1][1][1]

On February 1, 2024, the Sourcery podcast released its first episode, in which Molly O’Shea interviewed Xander Oltmann of Commodity Capital about his investment thesis on complex, vertically integrated monopolies and the effect of declining software development costs on SaaS. Early guests in March of that year included Alex Kolicich of 8VC, David Weisburd of 10X Capital, and Delian Asparouhov of Founders FundFounders FundFounders Fund is a venture capital firm founded in San Francisco in 2005 by Peter Thiel and his former PayPal colleagues Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Run by partners who were entrepreneurs themselves, it argues that founders should keep more control and is known for betting on difficult technology projects in areas such as space, defense, and artificial intelligence. It was Palantir’s first institutional investor, has invested in SpaceX many times since 2008, and its other notable investments include Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, and Anduril; as of March 2026 it had raised nine early-stage funds and four growth funds.Open the full entry and Varda.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][2]

On April 10, 2026, the New York Stock Exchange announced on its NYSE Content Update program that Sourcery founder Molly O’Shea had joined the exchange as a media partner.⁠[3]

An episode released on September 28, 2026, was recorded at the New York Stock Exchange with Jennifer ProsekJennifer ProsekJennifer Prosek is an American public relations and marketing communications professional and the founder and managing partner of Prosek Partners. She founded the firm shortly after graduating from college and built it into an independent integrated communications firm known for financial services and transaction communications; she is also the author of books including Army of Entrepreneurs.Open the full entry, founder and managing partner of Prosek PartnersProsek PartnersProsek Partners is an independent integrated marketing and communications firm headquartered in New York, founded by Jennifer Prosek and originally named CJP Communications before being renamed in 2012. The firm is known for financial services, private markets, and M&A transaction communications, and its services span public relations, investor relations, crisis and special situations communications, public affairs, and digital marketing.Open the full entry, under the title “How Apollo, Citadel, Blackstone, & Bridgewater Built Their Brands.” It discussed how top financial firms and financiers build their brands, what destroys a reputation, how to recover when things go wrong, and why reputation has become even more important in the age of AI, along with crisis communications, why VC firms are increasingly thinking like media companies, and the rise of podcasts and owned media. Prosek Partners also published a news item about the interview the same day.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][2][4]

Sourcery uses the tagline “Interviews with Top CEOs + Investors.” By its own account, its readers include general partners, limited partners, founders, family offices, bankers and hedge fund professionals from investment firms such as a16z, Founders Fund, Blackstone, Carlyle, Thrive Capital, Sequoia and USV and companies such as MongoDBMongoDBMongoDB, Inc. is a New York-based database software company that develops the document database of the same name and sells it as the cloud-hosted service MongoDB Atlas, the self-managed commercial edition MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and the free Community Server. Formerly called 10gen, the company listed on Nasdaq in 2017 under the symbol MDB.Open the full entry, Snowflake and Stripe. As of October 2026 the newsletter had more than 19,000 subscribers; Apple Podcasts lists 210 episodes under the Technology category, and the show is also published on YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry, SpotifySpotifySpotify is an audio streaming subscription service offering on-demand music, podcasts, and audiobooks through a free ad-supported service and a paid Premium subscription. Its parent company, Spotify Technology S.A., is incorporated in Luxembourg, has its principal operations in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker SPOT). It helped move the recorded-music business from buying and owning music to on-demand streaming and is one of the largest audio streaming subscription services by users.Open the full entry and other platforms. The show is sponsored by Brex and others; the newsletter is published under Molly O’Shea’s name with a disclaimer that it reflects her personal opinions and is not investment advice.⁠[5][1][1][6][6][1][1][1][1]

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