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AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late?
- ▶ 0:39 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk, partner at FirstMark.
How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
- ▶ 0:44 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matthew from FirstMark.
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 1:25:54 Matthew Prince I mean, you can create a bunch of these things and they can actually measure and say, you know, this particular year, the best podcast was, you know, the first mark podcast that was, that was out there or whatever it is.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 0:36 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from Firstmark.
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 0:33 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matur from Firstmark.
OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
- ▶ 0:45 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matthew from Firstmark.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 0:31 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
- ▶ 0:39 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 0:27 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
- ▶ 0:29 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
- ▶ 0:15 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
- ▶ 0:09 Matt Turck I'm your host Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
- ▶ 0:15 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 0:12 Matt Turck I'm your host Matt Turk from FirstMark.
- ▶ 39:30 Matt Turck One of the, uh, CEOs in the FirstMark portfolio, actually, John Miller was in marketing. 2 times in the scene
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host Matt Turk from FirstMark.
From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host, Mad Turk from FirstMark.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark, and today we have a very special episode of The Mad Podcast, where my FirstMark colleague, Aman Kabir, and I talk about what we see in the AI market from a venture capital investor perspective at the end… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:11 Aman Kabeer So, um, you know, here at FirstMark, we have what we call our guilds, communities of, um, execs across all functions, um, both startups and, and the global 2000.
Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 1:09 Mike Freedman Many are in data and many are thanks to amazing investors like Firstmark. 2 times in the scene
AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
- ▶ 41:22 Matt Turck Firstmark CTO Summit, to plug it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:56 Matt Turck As we just mentioned, we're recording this, uh, right before your keynote at the FirstMark CTO Summit, um, and, uh, I'm super grateful that you took the time to do this in addition to the, to the keynotes.
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
- ▶ 0:01 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark.
An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark.
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark.
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 0:02 Matt Turck I'm your host, Matt Turk from FirstMark, and today we're diving into the world of real-time data analytics with Aaron Katz, the CEO of ClickHouse, a very important company in the making in the data space.
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
- ▶ 0:03 Matt Turck I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark, and today I sit down with Daniel Dines, the co-founder of UiPath.
How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
- ▶ 8:23 Tomasz Tunguz So, uh, let's say I'm a vendor, I'm selling Figma to first mark, right? 2 times in the scene
The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
- ▶ 0:00 Matt Turck Hi, I'm Matt Turk from FirstMark.
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
- ▶ 29:31 Matt Turck You know, where, where we are at first mark as a firm, um, we, uh, I think are, uh, both enthusiastic, but also, uh, careful and ultimately don't feel like we are in, uh, a massive rush.
- ▶ 47:37 Matt Turck If, if people hear this and have comments on the landscape, they can email us, uh, to mad, M-A-D, 20, 24 at firstmark.com.
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 9:31 Benedict Evans And like, theoretically you could run first mark on Excel with a bunch of VLOOKUPs and IF statements, but you probably don't.
AI is now revolutionizing early cancer detection | Emi Gal, CEO of Ezra
- ▶ 0:58 Matt Turck Uh, one, because, um, Ezra is actually a member of the FirstMark family, which, uh, actually happens sort of rarely out of all the people that, um, we interview in this context.
- ▶ 2:04 Emi Gal Yeah, so we, we announced, uh, last week that we raised twenty-one million, uh, co-led by Rick, uh, at FirstMark and Amir Dan Rubin, uh, from Healthier Capital.
- ▶ 50:02 Matt Turck Uh, but this is, uh, yes, this is the first episode we're recording out of the First Mark, uh, podcast studio.
Diffblue’s AI Testing Paradigm Shift — CEO Mathew Lodge Explains How Code Writes Itself
- ▶ 0:38 Matt Turck Uh, and of course you're listed on the, uh, annual MAD landscape that, uh, we produce here every year at, um, at first mark.
The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck
- ▶ 0:34 Matt Turck Led by Wellington Management about, uh, six months ago, uh, with other investors, uh, including ourselves at Firstmark.
A Conversation with Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify Partners
- ▶ 2:16 Sarah Catanzaro I'm not sure if FirstMark was a Mattermark user back in the day, probably.
Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- ▶ 1:37 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock And shout out to First Mark as well for joining us on the journey.
The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape
- ▶ 0:20 Matt Turck Uh, so we are investors at, uh, for smart early stage venture firm here in New York and organizer, obviously of this event for the last.
- ▶ 20:00 Matt Turck 2023 at firstmarkcap.com against, again, those are the links.
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 3:03 Dimitri Sirota There's more proliferation, more VCs like Firstmark are funding companies that provide applications in places where you can put data.
A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 0:37 Matt Turck First Mark is a proud investor in Cockroach GB, and the, the story is that, like, that's how we, we, we, how I crawled my way into the deal.
Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
- ▶ 17:43 Pete DeJoy They were a first mark portfolio company, which is, you know, um, it's been a pleasure.
Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:36 Azeem Azhar So where there are job losses, it's not because, um, Marvin the paranoid Android showed up one day in first mark and was more skeptical about everything than you and you lost your job.
Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 21:26 Emil Eifrem To, um, any particular VCs on this call, but if there's, if you have any opportunity to raise money from, uh, from, um, F prime, or for that matter, first mark, I have to add, right?
Top 10 Trends in AI, Machine Learning and Data for 2022
- ▶ 0:42 Matt Turck We work at a firm called Firstmark, which is an early stage venture firm based in, uh, New York, uh, that, um, uh, invests in all sorts of early stage companies.
- ▶ 8:36 Matt Turck We at first mark, uh, with ultimately a 20 person, uh, venture capital firm, we have our own, uh, snowflake instance, for example.
Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:39 Synthesia AI Avatar We recently partnered with FirstMark Capital to accelerate our vision of replacing cameras with code and building the world's leading platform for synthetic video.
Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:26 Dev Ittycheria Obviously, you know, you know, firms like Firstmark and others have done a lot of investing in New York, so it's actually encouraged entrepreneurs to,
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 40:24 Matt Turck Uh, you know, it would be an understatement to, to say that we keep hearing great things about Gong, you know, across our portfolio at first mark bunch of companies are using the product and there's a lot of very happy customers out there.
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:21 Matt Turck That means, uh, so ABM is, uh, for anybody that is not familiar with campaigns marketing, that, that, that, that means that you have a target list of accounts and they first markets one account that you're targeting 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 0:09 Sarah Guo So, uh, you know somebody's actually excited to be somewhere when they take a red-eye five months pregnant to be there, so I am, I'm super excited to talk to all of you and to, to Matt and the, um, Firstmark community, uh, with Data Driven.
- ▶ 5:02 Matt Turck Uh, I've been at first mark for six years.
Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 0:54 Solmaz Shahalizadeh We were part of First Mark's family in the beginning, so. 2 times in the scene
Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 7:29 Anant Bhardwaj Let's call this FirstMark. 3 times in the scene
Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:09 Spencer Kimball So, uh, you know, we had great VCs, including FirstMark, uh, you know, interested in funding, and we took the money and we ran with it.
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 0:17 Ajay Kulkarni So, I want to start by saying that I'm actually a huge fan of this meetup, um, I've been coming for almost four years now, and in fact, a lot of the early ideas that coalesced into Timescale were formed while I was sitting in this room, so…
Make AI Less Mysterious // Serkan Piantino, Spell (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 0:10 Serkan Piantino Thanks to FirstMark for setting up this great series, and to Bloomberg for hosting us.
Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 16:50 Noah Weiss Uh, Slack or team equals first mark, you know, there is no head of that query stream across all teams.
Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 6:26 Matt Turck Time, um, on that, that first mark is the Internet of Things, um, and it seems that insurance companies are the, very closely related in terms of, um, actually doing something with all the data exhaust that's coming from all those, uh,…
10 Commandments for BI in Big Data, Shant Hovsepian, Arcadia Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:15 Shant Hovsepian But before I do that, I want to thank Bloomberg and FirstMark Capital who have always been very gracious hosts.
- ▶ 20:27 Matt Turck The, uh, excellent Andrew over there from first mark has a mic.
Black Boxes and Unicorns - DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin
- ▶ 22:39 Matt Turck Uh, but also to Bloomberg for once again hosting us, uh, to Ed over there, who, uh, does all those videos that you guys can find on, uh, on YouTube, on our channel, and, like, all the First Mark folks as well, Andrew here, Ty.
Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 25:16 Anand Sanwal Except for, except, except for FirstMark, you know, and a handful of other funds, you know, they mostly don't, right?
Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:42 Spencer Kimball Luckily, um, we were bored with our jobs enough to decide to actually start a company around it, and we raised money recently from Benchmark and Google and Sequoia and Firstmark.
Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 2:36 Zach Weinberg Raised a round of funding, almost from, from you guys.
Jake Klamka, Insight Data Science // Data Driven #25 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:12 Matt Turck Um, so, I'm Matt Turk from, uh, First Mark Capital. 2 times in the scene
Amit Bendov, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:11 Matt Turck I'm, uh, Matt Turk from, uh, First Mark Capital. 2 times in the scene
Vijay Subramanian, Rent the Runway // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014
- ▶ 0:09 Matt Turck I'm, uh, Matt Turk from First Mark Capital.
Joe Lonsdale, Formation 8 // Fireside Chat at Data Driven NYC #20 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:05 Matt Turck Uh, Matt Turk from, uh, First Mark Capital.
Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 22:59 Matt Turck Uh, and a big thing as well, to, uh, Dan Kosikowski, who's our director of community at FirstMark, who's, uh, been helping tremendously with this event.
Arnab Gupta, Opera Solutions // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
- ▶ 24:44 Matt Turck I think we are out of time, so I wanted to thank, uh, Bloomer for hosting us, uh, Rosaline, Doug in the back, Megan, uh, Dan Strickland, uh, my colleague Dan Kostowski from FirstMark, uh, and, you know,
Panel: Big data and VCs (Accel, IA Ventures, Data Collective) // Data Driven NYC #8// Oct 2012
- ▶ 1:21:33 Charlie Oliver Larry Linehan, who is over at First Mark Capital, ah, said about three months ago on a panel that he would kill to see some innovation in, in, in, ah, in the insurance industry.