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Molly O'Shea
Host of Sourcery. Molly O'Shea appears in 33 indexed conversations across Sourcery. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Eclipse's Lior Susan on $12.5B AUM and the Bet on Physical Industries
Eclipse is targeting the physical economy—about 85% of global GDP, or $100 trillion—where deglobalization, supply-chain vulnerability, government support, and customer demand are reopening neglected opportunities.With about $12.5 billion in AUM, roughly 90 portfolio companies, and 30 it helped build, its operators-with-capital model links CapEx, manufacturing, policy, and systems execution, while its free-cash-flow focus and non-formulaic incubation leave execution, timing, and repeatability as key variables.
Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop..
AI is breaking the spreadsheet playbook: billion-dollar businesses can still lack unit economics or durable differentiation, and scale may increase impairment risk.Inference monetization can drive revenue from 1 to 30 to 300, while agents shift purchases toward intelligence or economic output.Frontier labs retain pricing power if recursive self-improvement works, but face a 95%-as-good open-source squeeze if capabilities plateau.