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The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck goes deep with the people building AI. Each week, Matt talks with top founders, researchers, and leaders about frontier models, agents, infrastructure, and the companies defining the AI economy. Guests include leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, Vercel, LangChain, Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Cerebras, and more. Matt is a General Partner at FirstMark, a prolific investor in AI and the creator of the MAD Landscape, the industry’s…
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- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
In this fascinating episode, we dive deep into the race towards true AI intelligence, AGI benchmarks, test-time adaptation, and program synthesis with star AI…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
In 2022, Lin Qiao decided to leave Meta, where she was managing several hundred engineers, to start Fireworks AI. In this episode, we sit down with Lin for a…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a dominant architecture in modern AI deployments, and in this episode, we sit down with Douwe Kiela, who…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions
In this episode, we dive into how AI is transforming video editing with Gaurav Misra, the CEO of Captions. Launched in New York in 2021, Captions already…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada
AI customer service agents are quickly replacing the often clunky AI chatbots of years past, and revolutionizing how we all interact with customer service. In…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
Replit is one of the most visible and exciting companies reshaping how we approach software and application development in the Generative AI era. In this…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge world of data infrastructure with Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst — a company transforming data analytics through…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
As AI takes over the world, data is more than ever “the new oil”, and data engineering is the discipline that makes data usable behind the scenes. In this…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
What You MUST Know About AI Engineering in 2025 | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of AI engineering with Chip Huyen, author of the excellent, newly released book "AI Engineering: Building…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
In this episode, we sit down with Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, a global category leader in enterprise AI and a fixture on the Forbes Cloud…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
In this episode, we dive into the world of generative AI with May Habib, co-founder of Writer, a platform transforming enterprise AI use. May shares her…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics and The Robotics Renaissance | Nathan Benaich, Founder, Air Street Capital
Nathan Benaich, founder and GP at VC firm Air Street Capital, publishes every year "State of AI", one of the most widely-read and comprehensive reports on all…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
In this special episode of the MAD Podcast, Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer from FirstMark delve into the AI market from a venture investor perspective, in the…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? | Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
Before he founded Modal, Erik Bernhardsson created Spotify's music recommendation system. Today he's bringing a consumer app approach to radically simplifying…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
A founding engineer on Google BigQuery and now at the helm of MotherDuck, Jordan Tigani challenges the decade-long dominance of Big Data and introduces a…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
With a $4.5B valuation, 5M AI builders and 1M public AI models, Hugging Face has emerged as the key collaboration platform for AI, and the heart of the global…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
This episode is a captivating conversation with Richard Socher, serial entrepreneur, investor, and AI researcher. Richard elaborates on why he likens the…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
In this episode, we sit down with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, the founder of SurrealDB, to dive deep into the evolving world of databases and the future of data…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
In this episode, we dive deep into the story of how Datadog evolved from a single product to a multi-billion dollar observability platform with its co-founder…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
In this episode, we sit down with Ali Dasdan, CTO of ZoomInfo, a titan in the B2B sector, who harnesses vast datasets and advanced AI to redefine sales and…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
In this episode, we sit down with Eric Glyman, co-founder of Ramp, the company that revolutionized finance management to become a powerhouse valued at $7.6…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
In this episode, we reconnect with Sharon Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Lamini, to dive deep into the ever-evolving world of enterprise AI. We discuss how the AI…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
In this episode, we sit down with Jeremy Kahn, the AI Editor at Fortune Magazine, who has recently published a book called "Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
In this episode, we sit down with Azeem Azhar, an expert on AI and technologies, whose weekly newsletter "The Exponential View" (www.exponentialview.co) is…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
In this episode, we sat down with Aaron Katz, the CEO of ClickHouse, a company that went from an open-source analytical database into a highly successful cloud…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Dines, the co-founder and CEO of UiPath. From a small rented apartment in Bucharest to $1.3 billion in revenue…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
In this episode, we sit down with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, to explore the incredible journey of Airtable from its early days to becoming a…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
In this episode, we sat down with Tomasz Tunguz (https://twitter.com/ttunguz), the founder of Theory Ventures and a leading voice in the tech investment space…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak from VAST Data
In this episode, we sat down with Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data, a $9 billion company that's shaking the foundations of data storage, databases…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
🔗 2024 MAD Landscape: https://mad.firstmark.com 📃 PDF: https://mattturck.com/landscape/mad2024.pdf 📃 Blog post: https://mattturck.com/mad2024/ In this episode…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire from Roblox
In this episode, we sat down with Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox, and the mind behind the magic of the virtual universe. Together we explore the…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? | Benedict Evans
In this episode, we sat down with Benedict Evans, a leading voice in the tech industry and a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Known for his sharp…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
From Social App to Data Giant: Foursquare's Evolution | Gary Little from Foursquare
In this episode, we sit down with Gary Little, CEO of Foursquare, to discuss Foursquare's remarkable evolution from a social app to a leader in location…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Why generative AI will unlock new art forms | Cris Valenzuela from Runway
In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of AI art with Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway. Runway is a generative AI startup that co-invented Stable…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
2024 will be the year of Generative AI in production in the enterprise | Florian Douetteau from Dataiku
Join us in this exciting episode as we dive into the world of enterprise AI with Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, the leading enterprise AI…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Why Ecosystem Partnerships Are The Future In The Age Of AI | Bob Moore from Crossbeam
In this episode, we sit down with Bob Moore, the CEO of Crossbeam, who turned a $2.6 billion mistake into a masterclass on Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG). Fresh…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Saving lives with AI | Emi Gal from Ezra
In this episode, we sat down with Emi Gal, founder and CEO of Ezra, a startup that leverages AI to detect cancer early and inexpensively. Emi provides insights…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Embracing AI: Lessons from Intercom's Journey
In this episode, we sat down with Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom, to explore the seismic shift towards Artificial Intelligence in customer service…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Is the Modern Data Stack Dead? with dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy
In this episode, we explore the dynamic world of modern analytics with Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt Labs (https://twitter.com/jthandy). DBT, which helps more than…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Vector Databases and the Future of AI-Native Applications with Weaviate’s CEO Bob van Luijt
In this episode, we sat down with Bob van Luijt (https://twitter.com/bobvanluijt), the CEO of Weaviate, diving into the cutting-edge world of vector databases…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alexander Rinke
Last week, we sat down with Alex Rinke (https://twitter.com/alexanderrinke), Co-founder & Co-CEO of Celonis, to explore how AI and automation are transforming…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Nomic: Truly open AI
We are so excited today to be joined by Brandon Duderstadt, CEO + Cofounder, and Zach Nussbaum, Machine Learning Engineer, from Nomic AI. They discuss how…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Poolside: AI for Software Development with CTO Eiso Kant
Today, we’re thrilled to be joined by Eiso Kant, CTO + Co-Founder of Poolside, the buzzy new AI tool for software development. Eiso and Matt talk about…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
ASAPP: Generative AI for Contact Centers with CEO Gustavo Sapoznik
Today, we’re joined by Gustavo Sapoznik, Founder and CEO of ASAPP, the generative AI platform transforming contact centers. Matt + Gustavo discuss the…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Scott Belsky: AI & Creativity
Today, we’re excited to chat with Scott Belsky - author, entrepreneur, investor and Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe. Matt + Scott discuss the impact of AI on…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Glean AI: The ML-Powered Accounting Solution with CEO Howard Katzenberg
Today, we’re joined by Howard Katzenberg, CEO of Glean AI, a machine learning powered accounts payable platform. Matt + Howard discuss Glean’s founding story…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Humanloop: LLM Collaboration and Optimization with CEO Raza Habib
Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop, the platform for LLM collaboration and evaluation. Matt and Raza cover how to…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
DeepScribe: The AI-Powered Medical Scribe with CEO Akilesh Bapu
Today we're joined by Akilesh Bapu, CEO and Founder of DeepScribe, the platform using AI and Natural Language Processing to doctor/ patient transcripts. Matt…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Lamini: Fine-Tuning LLMs for The Enterprise with CEO Sharon Zhou
Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Sharon Zhou, CEO of Lamini, an LLM platform for the enterprise. Matt and Sharon go over the battle between…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Perplexity AI: The AI-Powered Answer Engine with CEO Aravind Srinivas
Today we're joined by Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, a chatbot-style AI conversational engine that directly answers users' questions with sources and…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge
Today we're joined by Mathew Lodge, CEO of Diffblue, an AI platform that uses reinforcement learning to autonomously test software. We chat about the "AI for…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu
Today we're joined by Nancy Xu, AI Investor and CEO and Founder of Moonhub AI, the AI recruiting platform helping companies shorten and speed up the recruiting…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu
Today we're joined by Stanislas Polu, Co-Founder of Dust, a startup building Secure AI assistants for the enterprise. We dive into Stanislas's journey to…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu
Today we're joined by Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, an independent research company developing AI agents with general intelligence, fresh off the announcement of…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Guardrails AI: Deploying Generative AI Safely with CEO Shreya Rajpal
Today we're joined by Shreya Rajpal, Co-founder & CEO of Guardrails AI for a conversation on the Guardrails platform, mitigating AI hallucinations and the role…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI21 Labs: Bringing Reliable AI to the Enterprise with Co-Founder Ori Goshen
Today we are joined by Ori Goshen, Co-founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, for a conversation about AI 21's origin story, their differentiated approach to AI, and…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
AI, Gaming, and Building a Data Science Brand - A Conversation with Carly Taylor, Founder of Rebel Data Science
Today we are excited to welcome Carly Taylor for a broad discussion covering the numerous ways she's ingrained in the AI & data world including AI at…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic
We're joined by Milos Rusic, CEO & Co-founder of deepset AI for a conversation on deepset's origin story as a bootstrapped company, a deep dive into the…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
BigID: Data Visibility & Control with CEO Dimitri Sirota
Dimitri Sirota, Co-Founder and CEO of BigID, which has raised $280+ to date, joins us for a chat about the importance and complexities around knowing and…
- The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Hippocratic AI: A Safety-First LLM for Healthcare with CEO Munjal Shah
Today we are diving into the world of generative AI in Healthcare with CEO and Co-founder of Hippocratic AI, Munjal Shah. In this episode Matt and Munjal…