Oct 28, 202627 min
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Inside The Silicon Mind
Hosted by Firas Sozan · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
Inside the Silicon Mind, hosted by Firas Sozan, takes you behind the scenes with the Founders, CEOs, and Venture Capitalists building the future of technology.Every week, Firas sits down with the operators and investors rewriting the rules of technology - from the zero-to-one startup journey to scaling billion-dollar companies like Snowflake, Microsoft, and Google.Discover how the best teams in Silicon Valley are actually built, what top VCs look for before writing a check, and the make-or-break decisions that separate companies that win from those that don’t.Whether you’re a founder raising your next round, an engineer deciding where to build your career, or an investor looking for an edge, this is the show that pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening inside the Silicon Valley machine.New episodes every Tuesday at 8AM PT.
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What is Inside The Silicon Mind about?
Inside the Silicon Mind, hosted by Firas Sozan, takes you behind the scenes with the Founders, CEOs, and Venture Capitalists building the future of technology. Every week, Firas sits down with the operators and investors rewriting the rules of technology - from the zero-to-one startup journey to scaling billion-dollar companies like Snowflake, Microsoft, and Google.
Who hosts Inside The Silicon Mind?
Inside The Silicon Mind is hosted by Firas Sozan. The show has published 63 episodes to date.
What has Inside The Silicon Mind covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Ex-Yahoo Insider: Robots Were Supposed to Take Factory Jobs. What Happened?" (28 October 2026, 27 minutes), "The Founder Using AI to Build Real Hardware" (21 October 2026, 23 minutes), and "YC Founder: It Took Me 10 Years to Realize What I'll Tell You in 25 Minutes" (14 October 2026, 25 minutes).
How often does Inside The Silicon Mind publish?
Inside The Silicon Mind publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 63 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Inside The Silicon Mind?
Booking probability for Inside The Silicon Mind is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Inside The Silicon Mind requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Inside The Silicon Mind's contact route on record: public web form.
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Firas Sozan hosts Inside The Silicon Mind, a technology podcast with 63 episodes published.
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Episode #62
The Founder Using AI to Build Real Hardware
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Episode #56
$1.2B AI Founder: Software Engineering is About to Change Forever (and nobody even realizes)
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Sep 1, 202642 minWhy do the best investors almost always back the business operator over the brilliant technologist? I sat down with a venture investor who has been deploying capital since the early days of the internet and has invested...
Aug 25, 202630 minWhy does Nvidia stock drop every time a better open source model ships? Benny Chen thinks the market has this exactly backwards, and he has the track record to argue it. He spent years on ASICs and GPU model serving...
Aug 18, 202630 minEveryone keeps repeating that AI is making cyber defenders faster and more productive, but in this episode my guest Evan Powell argues the opposite is quietly true, that AI is handing the real advantage to the...
Aug 11, 202632 minWhat if the worst moment of your life, the one you are most ashamed of, turned out to be the exact thing that made everything after it possible? In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Jared Shepard pulls back the...
Aug 4, 202626 minWhat if a clinical record sells for magnitudes more on the dark web than a social security number, and almost nobody outside healthcare is talking about it? In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Sandeep pulls back...
Jul 28, 202627 minWhat happens to observability when the person staring at the dashboard can no longer understand the code an AI just wrote? Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal and a Columbia professor with an MIT PhD, spent...
Episode #49
The Truth About Agentic AI No One Tells You
Jul 21, 202618 minWhat if the terms everyone is obsessing over in AI are the exact reason your startup is missing the big picture? In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Farshid Sabet pulls back the curtain on building AI companies...
Jul 14, 202629 minEx-Google Insider Reveals The Future Of AI in 2026… What happens to a trillion-dollar AI industry when the intelligence it sells becomes something you can own outright, running on your laptop, impossible to throttle...
Jul 7, 202631 minEx-Apple Insider: No One Knows What's Coming With AI What skills do you teach your children when the career path you spent your life building is on the verge of being entirely automated? If an eight-year-old can already...
Jun 30, 202625 minWhen code becomes virtually free to generate, where does value actually go? If any founder can spin up a functional software product in a weekend, what stops a trillion-dollar frontier engine from erasing your entire...
Jun 23, 202634 minWhen we look at the explosive market for LLMs and coding assistants, it’s easy to think we are already on the doorstep of AGI. But what if the systems we call "advanced" are actually operating at the level of a...
Episode #44
AI Expert: TV Is About to Change Forever
Jun 16, 202636 minWhen you watch a movie for the second time, what if you could experience it entirely from the villain's perspective without the director ever having to film a single extra frame? In this episode of Inside the Silicon...
Episode #43
The Hidden Cost of Using AI at Work
Jun 9, 202621 minWhen you drop contracts, strategy docs, or source code into ChatGPT, who actually sees your prompts? In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Firas sits down with Jonathan Mortensen, founder and CEO of Confident...
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