Why You Need to Rethink Your Career Now | Richard Socher

Episode notes

Head to and enter the code MARINA for 3 months off. Richard Socher is the fourth most-cited researcher in the history of natural language processing - he invented the word vectors and prompt engineering that run inside almost every chatbot you use. He sold his first startup to Salesforce, built You.com into a $1.5B unicorn, and in May 2026 raised $650M at a $4.65B valuation for Recursive: an AI that runs its own experiments and rewrites itself. In this conversation he explains why he thinks the self-improvement loop arrives within two years, which jobs grow and which disappear, and his hack for seeing the future - look at what only the wealthy can afford today, then ask which of it is bottlenecked on intelligence. Stay till the end for the first question he'd ask a superintelligence.Feeling behind on AI and don't know where to start? Start here. Feeling behind on AI and don't know where to start? Start here.

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