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# ![@MollySOShea Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::954060455831580672.png) @MollySOShea Molly O’Shea

Molly O'Shea has garnered significant attention lately, with many prominent figures in the tech and investment industries discussing and interacting with her. The most important current event appears to be her connection to Kalshi, a prediction market platform, with Ryan Serhant and Alfred Lin, a Sequoia partner, showing interest and support. Additionally, there is a notable mention of her in the context of a lawsuit against the government, which she won unanimously.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #62 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  X% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  X% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [formula 1](/list/formula-1)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) 15%, [thrive capital](/topic/thrive-capital) #1, [investment](/topic/investment) #2232, [$15b](/topic/$15b) #9, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #1842, [kalshi](/topic/kalshi) #389, [intuition](/topic/intuition) #269, [$googl](/topic/$googl) 5%, [fintech](/topic/fintech) #107, [$500b](/topic/$500b) #1

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@a16z](/creator/undefined) [@kalshi](/creator/undefined) [@luanalopeslara](/creator/undefined) [@100accuraci](/creator/undefined) [@davidu](/creator/undefined) [@thrivecapital](/creator/undefined) [@mansourtarek](/creator/undefined) [@billackman](/creator/undefined) [@pjclark](/creator/undefined) [@marcbhargava](/creator/undefined) [@cartainc](/creator/undefined) [@palantirtech](/creator/undefined) [@alexdolbun](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@ktmboyle](/creator/undefined) [@anduriltech](/creator/undefined) [@mttgrmm](/creator/undefined) [@basepowerco](/creator/undefined) [@brexhq](/creator/undefined) [@sequoia](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Palantir (PLTR)](/topic/$pltr) [Monad (MON)](/topic/monad) [Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD)](/topic/crowdstrike) [Open Custody Protocol (OPEN)](/topic/$open) [Klarna Group (KLAR)](/topic/klarna) [Archer Aviation Inc. (ACHR)](/topic/$achr) [Joby Aviation, Inc. (JOBY)](/topic/$joby) [NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA)](/topic/$nvda) [Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"PART II: $635M Exit $600M Fund David Ulevitch (@davidu) General Partner at @a16z on the Critical Industries AD is Investing in to Rebuild America AD Portfolio Companies & Areas: AI: Applied Intuition Ambient AI Defense: Anduril Saronic Shield AI Castelion Energy: Radiant Base Power Exowatt RigUp Aerospace: SpaceX Apex Northwood Aerodome Air Space Intelligence (ASI) Astro Mechanica Astranis Manufacturing: Hadrian Senra Public Safety: Flock Safety Longeye Skydio Supply Chain: Zipline Flexport Minerals: Mariana Materials KoBold Metals We also discuss - Andurils Aura - The Magnetic Founder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1991893038214394035)  2025-11-21T15:34Z 35.6K followers, 234.9K engagements


"With 7M+ views on just their X & YT. Anduril's "Don't work at Anduril" campaign is one of the most viral & effective recruiting creatives of all time David Ulevitch (@davidu) shares unexpected inspiration the process & X insights from Matt Grimm Jeff Miller & the @anduriltech team 1.) Winning marketing comes from the companys actual DNA. 2.) Sharp polarizing messaging quickly filters out the wrong people & pulls in the right ones. 3.) Evocative talk-worthy campaigns cut through the noise & create lasting impressions 4.) You cant copy another companys ethos inauthentic marketing is a weak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1992339492171383031)  2025-11-22T21:08Z 35.6K followers, 39.9K engagements


"Henry Kravis of KKR on AI Roll-Ups & X Key Factors to Consider: 1.) AI boosts productivity but it cant run a company. Great management still determines whether a roll-up succeeds or fails. 2.) Roll-ups collapse when cultures clash or when companies arent integrated; scale without integration creates zero real value. 3.) The arbitrage window is closing. . . . "Now I'm in AI land out here. I got it. I understand. Everything's going to be autonomous. Everything's going to be run by AI & so forth. And I talked to a lot of people that are now doing rollups & they're putting AI in. I think that's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996673851963723796)  2025-12-04T20:11Z 35.6K followers, 86.5K engagements


"Not to mention as an individual Marc was an early investor from 2020-2022 in Ramp Zip Harvey AI Windsurf (acquired by Google) Together AI Neon (acquired by Databricks) Polymarket Sardine Doppel Bridge (acquired by Stripe) DolarApp Seel Vantage Stitch Money TRM Labs Recraft Keep Healthy Together Flowdesk Exa Monad Eigen Layer Savvy Wealth & others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996980393497829879)  2025-12-05T16:30Z 35.6K followers, 3374 engagements


""Some of the companies in the rollup will hit $XXX million of EBITDA & they're X years old." "Oh my God." "We have companies like that who say: 'If we're generating hundreds of millions of free cashflow. we don't need to be out fundraising every X to X months .& doing the press tour .& promising people AGI is around the corner.' If you have a good business and you're making a lot of money & you're seeing AI implementation really working. a lot of our companies have remained really quiet or more stealthy doing amazing." Marc Bhargava (@marcbhargava) Managing Director of General Catalyst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1997480135080161491)  2025-12-07T01:35Z 35.6K followers, 143.1K engagements


"BREAKING: Fired by Elon Astronomer Meta & Wendys Alex Cohen Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient Led by Scale Venture Partners Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) has one of the wildest founder journeys in tech. Fired over 11x by Elon Musk Crowdstrike the IRS Harris Campaign & Google. Hes now raised $30M in total for @HelloPatient an AI platform reinventing how healthcare practices engage with patients. In this Sourcery interview he reveals it all. - Storytelling Meme Lord Genius - $22.5M Series A led by Scale (@scalevp) - AI-powered patient engagement across phone text & chat - Live in urgent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1963636090503417995)  2025-09-04T16:11Z 35.5K followers, 294K engagements


""If there's one takeaway from founding businesses over my career. it's just as hard to start a small business as it is to start a large business. And it only gets harder the larger the business gets. It only gets more complex." - Joshua Kushner Thrive Capital "I remember it was probably X or X years ago we had made an offer to a CTO. And I remember having dinner with Karlie & I said to her "If he accepts everything will be in a good place." And she said "Josh we've only been together for a couple of years now but you've been saying that for a lot of things & you just have to accept the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1964809095963136241)  2025-09-07T21:52Z 35.5K followers, 40.2K engagements


"ICYMI: September was insane. XX podcast interviews ( $OPEN Keith Rabois Klarna PsiQuantum Factory Ashlee Vance $ACHR $JOBY) XX newsletters (IPOs $NVDA vs Sovereign Wealth Funds PayPal Mafia M&A Thrive Capital) Billboards in Times SQ (thank you @brexHQ rewards) +1M podcast views on in X days @cartainc 🤝Sourcery Defeated YouTube ban Hosted Dinner 20+ Family Offices DoorDash DashPass perks w/ Brex & of course lots of merch. Watch out October. 👀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1974494656529420444)  2025-10-04T15:19Z 35.5K followers, 5010 engagements


"Elad Gil (@eladgil) on the Core Traits That Define the Best Founders Elad has backed: - Dylan Field Figma - Brian Chesky Airbnb - Palmer Luckey Anduril - Brian Armstrong Coinbase - Patrick & John Collison Stripe - Qasar Younis Applied Intuition - Aravind Srinivas Perplexity - Ryan Peterson Flexport - Jesse Zhang Decagon & many many more. "The best founders tend to be very smart very driven very aggressive wanna win relentless work ethic. You know it's a bunch of stuff that for a couple years people tried to say wasn't important but is extremely important. They tend to be very smart very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1980729788655628685)  2025-10-21T20:15Z 35.6K followers, 116.8K engagements


""We looked at our original investment memo for OpenAI there was no mention of ChatGPT in there" Thrive made its first OpenAI investment in 2023 at a $29B valuation. Since then theyve more than doubled down - leading multiple rounds up until OpenAIs recent $500B milestone. The most surprising part "At the same time I think a $XX billion dollar valuation or thereabouts is undoubtedly a high price for a company that you know ChatGPT hadn't even launched .when we invested in OpenAI in that round I think we were one of X firms that gave the company a term sheet and this was actually I think more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1993078890789470226)  2025-11-24T22:06Z 35.5K followers, 55.5K engagements


"@jawwwn_ Collab with Martha Stewart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1994070610792575212)  2025-11-27T15:47Z 35.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@pitdesi Oh so thats why all my website traffic is coming from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1995320698336878795)  2025-12-01T02:35Z 35.5K followers, 30.9K engagements


"What's better than VC funds as F1 teams Bodybuilders. @johncoogan breaks down the top rankings on @tbpn: Sequoia - Arnold Schwarzenegger a16z - Dorian Yates Founders Fund - Phil Heath Kleiner Perkins - Ronnie Coleman Accel - Lou Ferrigno Lux - Jay Cutler Nat Friedman - Sam Sulek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1925317809464017168)  2025-05-21T22:28Z 35.6K followers, 32.2K engagements


"BREAKING: Deel Raises $300M Series E at $17.3B Valuation Co-led by Ribbit a16z & Coatue Had no idea the scale & still growing. Huge congrats. Earlier this year Deel surpassed $X billion in ARR. Sept marked X consecutive years of profitability & a major milestone - their first $XXX million revenue month. Deel processes $XX billion in payroll annually & serves 35000+ customers & 1.5+ million workers in 150+ countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1978827082840068440)  2025-10-16T14:15Z 35.6K followers, 124.3K engagements


"Have you seen Alex Karp's sword"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1988273594364031202)  2025-11-11T15:52Z 35.6K followers, 4.9M engagements


"BREAKING: Inside Thrive Capital w/ Partner Philip Clark Investing in OpenAI Wiz Cursor Nudge Physical Intelligence Josh always had a line to me when I joined Thrive which is that the people who win deals are the ones who want to win them most. In this conversation Philip breaks down how one of the most concentrated & influential firms (@ThriveCapital) in tech evaluates founders builds conviction & partners with companies that reshape the world. We dive into: - Seeing an early demo of OpenAIs GPT-4 before launch - Why Thrive flew into an active war zone to close the Wiz deal - Cursors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1992976474480021590)  2025-11-24T15:19Z 35.6K followers, 339.9K engagements


"Philip Clark (@PJClark) Partner at Thrive Capital (@ThriveCapital) on the top X insights behind their heavily concentrated investment strategy: 1.) "all the wins should really feel great & all the losses should really hurt & we should have real skin in the game." 2.) "if we're gonna invest in someone they should really believe that the success & failure of the company really matters to us as investors" 3.) "It is very clear that a small number of companies drives a disproportionate amount of the economic & social value in the world. I think right now I'd have to check the latest stats but the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1993341627776000094)  2025-11-25T15:30Z 35.6K followers, 46K engagements


"Wiz was closing on these very healthy six figure deals in a matter of weeks or months which was just unprecedented. Philip Clark (@PJClark) Partner at Thrive Capital (@ThriveCapital) shares the sales momentum that led to Thrive's investment & @wiz_io's eventual $32B acquisition by Google. Oftentimes enterprise software they're all the classic things you might care about margins retention etc. but a really special aspect of the business is often what is the size of the deals you can sell vs the speed at which you can sell deals I actually think often looking at this ratio is a really really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1994033835479081011)  2025-11-27T13:21Z 35.6K followers, 40.1K engagements


"NEW: What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk & Why He Closed His VC Fund Bradley Tusk Uber's first regulatory advisor joins Sourcery to discuss what he learned working closely w/ Travis Kalanick from Ubers early regulatory battles throughout their massive scaling. We also cover the real economics of running a VC fund. and Bradley's decision to ultimately shut down his fund & return to an equity-for-services model. This was a really fun conversation a bit philosophical very candid & I'm sure we could've kept talking for hours. Highlights: (00:00) Bradley Tusk (01:25) How AI infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1994797224329712031)  2025-11-29T15:54Z 35.6K followers, 97.1K engagements


"TIL Luana Lopes Lara is the worlds youngest self-made female billionaire Congrats @luanalopeslara :) @Kalshi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996279880640868742)  2025-12-03T18:06Z 35.6K followers, 21.5K engagements


"FULL INTERVIEW: Citadel Securities' Future of Global Markets 2025 w/ Tarek & Luana Co-Founders of Kalshi With their recently closed $X Billion Series E led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation @Kalshi's total funding just this year reaches almost $1.5B Now Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara (@luanalopeslara) is the worlds youngest self-made female billionaire. 2025 Financing History + Lead: June: Series C - $185M at $2B (@paradigm) ** Oct: Series D - $300M at $5B (@a16z + @sequoia) Dec: Series E - $1B at $11B (Paradigm) Participation for the Series E also included Sequoia Andreessen Horowitz Meritech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996321472944689559)  2025-12-03T20:51Z 35.6K followers, 266.6K engagements


"How learnings & ideas from working at Goldman Sachs & Bridgewater to Citadel & Citadel Securities led Luana (@luanalopeslara) & Tarek (@mansourtarek_) to create Kalshi X years later it's worth $XX billion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996370756729721243)  2025-12-04T00:07Z 35.6K followers, 267.6K engagements


"In addition to leading the Creation Strategy Marc (@marcbhargava) also leads early stage crypto & fintech investing. Previously Marc was co-founder at Tagomi (acquired by Coinbase) now Coinbase Prime. Experienced in early-stage investing private equity & operationally focused roles in tech he is extremely well suited & well spoken on this subject"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996980161091408099)  2025-12-05T16:29Z 35.6K followers, 2868 engagements


"TIL it was Luana's idea to sue the government. TLDR: They won unanimously. @luanalopeslara @mansourtarek_ @Kalshi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1982993891487035633)  2025-10-28T02:12Z 35.6K followers, 99K engagements


"BREAKING: Inside Palantir with Alex Karp Exclusive interview in Palantirs office. We cover: - $PLTR record earnings - $500B market cap milestone - New Biography: The Philosopher in the Valley - The rise of AIP & its impact on global enterprise - Morality value creation & helping Americans win - Dyslexia artistry & Karps leadership philosophy - The Legacy of Rosita - Cupcakes Special thank you to @elianoayounes for the strategic vibes & the @PalantirTech team for helping put this together Highlights: (00:00) Inside Palantir w/ Alex Karp (02:16) Building w/o hierarchy the anti-playbook culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1988252311047504320)  2025-11-11T14:27Z 35.6K followers, 4.1M engagements


"Philip Clark (@PJClark) Partner at Thrive Capital (@ThriveCapital) draws on investments in OpenAI Cursor Physical Intelligence & his semiconductor background to outline X big takeaways on the state of AI development: 1.) AIs breakthroughs arent linear. They come in architectural waves just like silicon. Philips semiconductor analogy reframes AI progress as a sequence of hardware-like paradigm shifts. When one path hits its limit (single-core multi-core; pre-training post-training) a new architecture emerges. AI isnt evolving through incremental tuning. its advancing through structural"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1993827686695793041)  2025-11-26T23:42Z 35.6K followers, 15.2K engagements


"If Sourcery was your top show on Spotify Wrapped DM me with proof & I'll send you a ton of merch :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996396826405253530)  2025-12-04T01:51Z 35.6K followers, 8589 engagements


"BREAKING: Inside General Catalysts $1.5B AI Roll-Up Engine: The Creation Strategy Marc Bhargava Managing Director at General Catalyst leads the Creation Strategies for incubations transformations & venture buyouts as well as leading early stage crypto & fintech investing. He breaks down one of the most significant shifts happening inside venture & private markets today: AI Roll-Ups. As one of the X largest venture players with $40B AUM General Catalyst has quietly built a $1.5B AI roll-up engine reshaping a $XX trillion market historically defined by low margins & slow modernization. To date"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1996973256197476376)  2025-12-05T16:01Z 35.6K followers, 298.7K engagements


"Marc Bhargava (@marcbhargava) Managing Director at General Catalyst on how 'AI Roll-Ups' are unlocking software-like margins for a much larger TAM "Why hasn't everyone in VC rushed to invest in services businesses like accounting legal IT insurance Well they historically have not been that profitable. So they sort of break-even generally in many cases well obviously as you get to scale in that $1T of revenue in software the marginal cost is really low & they can become very profitable & have amazing cash flow Companies like CrowdStrike or ServiceNow or others you know kind of show this model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1997029285794861153)  2025-12-05T19:44Z 35.6K followers, 27K engagements


"You wont believe who we just interviewed here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1997392553839301088)  2025-12-06T19:47Z 35.6K followers, 127K engagements


"Safe to say the F-117 was a popular landmark. Stealth interview coming next week. For now a word from Dan Wright CEO of Armada at RNDF 2025 @danwrightSF @armada_ai @RonaldReagan Now is the time where we need to do what we do best & we need to do it at scale. What we do best in the US is building great tech. And so what's really cool is I've been here five years in a row. This is the most entrepreneurs I've seen at RNDF I think that's a really good thing & a really important time for the country. Where does Armada fit in We are the edge for the US & the edge for the DOW bringing all these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MollySOShea/status/1997848372426965125)  2025-12-08T01:59Z 35.6K followers, 26.1K engagements