SOTA Wives

The third SOTA wife has entered the chat, and this one is fresh off his exit at Anthropic.Sarah (Head of DevX at Cerebras) and Vivian (GP at Y Combinator) sit down with Thariq right after his last day at Anthropic.What was supposed to be a quiet start to his funemployment era turned into getting outed on Twitter, CEOs in his DMs, and a next-day debrief on the pod.Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:16 Meet the third member: leaving Anthropic03:15 YC’s COVID batch05:17 Over-raising and shutting down Multiverse08:58 Toronto, Bay Area high schools and raising kids12:39 First impressions of SF and tech Twitter18:32 Going viral with Claude Code content20:26 Why Anthropic, and idolizing the labs22:33 Can startups survive the labs?29:53 Labs as Hogwarts houses, and friendly rivals35:21 Honeypots, spies and the apocalypseFollow Our Socials:X: https://x.com/SOTAwivesInstagram: https://instagram.com/stateoftheartwives

“Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, ⁠@MilksandMatcha⁠) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, ⁠@vivianmshen⁠).In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”4:08 Finding your husband before the exit8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend28:54 SF cat parties

WTF is a SOTA Wife?SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley. We built it as an antidote to the performative polish of tech Twitter.Brought to you by Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).Episode 1 goes live on Monday, 12th October at 9 AM PT on everywhere you get your podcasts 💙❤️