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The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 31:28 Ivan Borzin And so we ended up doing that in the Chase Center, but we ended up doing it in the Chase Center in San Francisco two months ago.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 16:49 Felix Rieseberg If I have to fly to New York from San Francisco, try to like take the four p.m. flight.
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
- ▶ 1:22 Matt Turck We are in an epic venue at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 1:03:55 Neil Zeghidour Because somebody say hey, and I just say hey, they ask for like the next flight to SF, and I have to look up on internet to find the time.
- ▶ 1:16:47 Matt Turck You're flying out to San Francisco in a few hours.
Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
- ▶ 56:08 Matt Turck What do you make of the whole, you know, rush to AGI conversation and people being AGI-pilled in San Francisco and other places?
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
- ▶ 0:54 Matt Turck But I have to warn you, this conversation went off the rails in the best possible way, and we ended up going into all sorts of fun tangents, like the strange phenomenon of Chinese romance dramas set inside semiconductor factories, and what…
- ▶ 52:57 Dylan Patel My roommate got so obsessed with, like, the game that during Christmas week, because he didn't go home, he just stayed in San Francisco, um, he just worked on an RTS game, and he built an entire RTS game
- ▶ 1:16:14 Matt Turck Uh, great San Francisco lore.
AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
- ▶ 3:46 George Sivulka And the idea is that there's lots of consumer AI products, products where you can go and, you know, talk about your sushi restaurant and wine in San Francisco, but there's actually not very horizontal general purpose workplace AI products.
- ▶ 7:30 George Sivulka Uh, and so we were opening SF
- ▶ 36:32 George Sivulka I, I think not a lot of people are saying it, but I think like SF has a really big group think. 2 times in the scene
Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
- ▶ 10:02 Mike Palmer Like if you live in Silicon, I live in California, I live in San Francisco, all the companies that you know and love that weren't consumer, uh, were built, uh, for technical people.
- ▶ 15:15 Mike Palmer Actually, I interviewed with Rob the day San Francisco shut down.
From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
- ▶ 1:09:27 Gaurav Misra And, um, it was a time where you couldn't even, like, San Francisco had a hotel shut down, right? 6 times in the scene
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 1:15 Matt Turck You were in, in Asia, you were in SF. 2 times in the scene
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
- ▶ 2:25 Matt Turck And, uh, for further context, you are a venture backed, uh, San Francisco based startup.
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 8:01 Nathan Benaich Um, and then I think the other part is, like, um, tech, I think, like, tech people in SF obviously live in a bubble, and it's kind of, it's quite techno-utopist, and I think they underestimate how, how much human inertia there is to the…
- ▶ 46:45 Nathan Benaich But now you fly to SF and Waymo's epic. 3 times in the scene
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 50:24 Erik Bernhardsson I mean, I, I know I only built a company in New York, so I don't really know, like, I don't know what the kind of, I'm sure there's like, you know, many reasons to, to build things in, in San Francisco or elsewhere. 2 times in the scene
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 1:22 Matt Turck And, uh, just last week in San Francisco, you had 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Matt Turck Uh, you, you mentioned that you, as we were saying right before we started recording that you have four offices, Seattle, New York, Amsterdam, and SF. 3 times in the scene
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 1:22 Clement Delangue And during COVID, I did the cliché move from, uh, from New York to Miami, but I'm also traveling a lot, so still spending quite a lot of time in New York, in San Francisco, in Paris. 5 times in the scene
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 39:09 Richard Socher And it took another 10 plus years, uh, to really get it to now in San Francisco finally having real Waymos that at scale can transport people, uh, and safely every day for real, you know, money and, and so on.
Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 13:10 unnamed speaker So I'm going to run it for New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, and I'm going to be using this generate RAG response function, uh, which, uh,
An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
- ▶ 46:51 Jeremy Kahn Uh, this year we've had three of those, one in London, one about to happen in Singapore, and then we'll have one in San Francisco, uh, in December as well.
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 22:16 Aaron Katz They recently spoke at one of our meetups in San Francisco about how they're using ClickHouse Cloud and LangSmith
- ▶ 29:17 Aaron Katz And that's largely driven by this, this frictionless self-service motion where a company in India can onboard onto our technology just as easily as a startup in San Francisco.
- ▶ 40:08 Aaron Katz I need to activate my network, so I basically just started talking to anybody that would listen in San Francisco that had a relationship with this company, and through a friend of a friend, I got my
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
- ▶ 27:40 Matt Turck Was it choice of New York versus San Francisco somewhere else? 2 times in the scene
Hollywood Producers FREAK OUT over AI | Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway
- ▶ 2:47 Cris Valenzuela We just opened it up in San Francisco.
AI is now revolutionizing early cancer detection | Emi Gal, CEO of Ezra
How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
- ▶ 2:30 Des Traynor So that evening I had a call with own, um, or it was evening time cause he's in San Francisco
- ▶ 49:31 Des Traynor And then you could jump on to like, you know, you know, a new recently series B SF startup, whatever.
- ▶ 53:44 Matt Turck You were, I believe, four co-founders, um, all Irish, but the company was, uh, started both, uh, in San Francisco and Dublin at the same time.
- ▶ 56:21 Matt Turck Another really interesting aspect of the journey is that, um, you guys have been bi-continental and distributed from the beginning between, again, San Francisco and, and, and Ireland. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:57 Matt Turck Um, and you know, there's this, especially in the age of AI, there's this, uh, rapidly increasing kind of like dominant narrative that all the good things are happening in San Francisco, in which you're also headquartered.
Vector databases and the $8 trillion open source market | Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate
- ▶ 32:31 Bob van Luijt We have everybody from San Francisco to, in, and Berlin.
How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
- ▶ 36:58 Matt Turck Like, obviously there is, uh, you know, there are like awesome, awesome things happening in San Francisco, uh, the whole like cerebral valley thing. 4 times in the scene
AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
- ▶ 25:53 Akilesh Bapu We were, this was our first job out of college, and so we were naive students, low twenties in terms of age, um, and the first sales motion for us was getting, us two getting on, ah, His Vespa and riding around San Francisco, um, pitching…
Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 47:25 Stanislas Polu But one that is not too coveted yet, meaning that if you want to build a strong AI research team today, it'll be 10 times easier to do it in Paris than it is to do it in SF, uh, with OpenAI, uh, as a lab, as a competitive lab to, in the… 2 times in the scene
Building Human-Level AI Agents: Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu on the Road to General Intelligence
- ▶ 34:21 Kanjun Qiu One were, I work on kind of trying to cultivate a neighborhood in San Francisco, really basically like a mile by mile radius, uh, where all of our friends live, and the reason is, uh, there's actually a study by the military about what…
- ▶ 40:43 Kanjun Qiu And then we should also, uh, I also, we have a fund, um, called Outset Capital, uh, and that actually drives a lot of the, like, community convening in San Francisco.
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 26:32 Benn Stancil And so the airport analogy to me is the way you would actually schedule flights in an airport is you decide when the flight's gonna happen, and then the airport's gonna be like, okay, we gotta take this flight off from, from New York to…
Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
- ▶ 20:46 Viraj Parekh Uh, we have folks in New York, London, San Francisco, India, and kind of all over remote first.
Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
- ▶ 0:07 Shinji Kim I used to live in New York for about nine years before I moved to San Francisco, six months before the pandemic, and it's always great to be back in the city.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:46 Aaron Katz And I, I, we had dinner together five or six years ago in San Francisco, and I watched as he moved to Google and was doing amazing things within Google cloud and more broadly running server lists and developer tooling.
- ▶ 32:52 Matt Turck And, um, are you, so you mentioned, uh, San Francisco and Amsterdam, but, uh, are you building a distributed company for folks who may be, uh, interested in applying?
Fireside Chat: Florian Douetteau (Founder & CEO, Dataiku) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:43 Florian Douetteau We, we have multiple locations in the US, but like not yet, uh, for instance, uh, just a San Francisco, uh, full office that will, I guess will opening, will be opening soon.
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:22 Amit Bendov Don't tell the people in San Francisco, but it is.
- ▶ 15:20 Amit Bendov It's like a all day, uh, start like morning San Francisco time.
- ▶ 26:28 Amit Bendov We could be talking about the Lakers game, or we could be talking like the weather in New York or the air quality in San Francisco, right?
- ▶ 29:10 Amit Bendov Uh, we're not, we haven't expanded globally yet more for a marketing reason than for things, because we want to, like, create more, uh, resonance in the smaller echo chamber, or a big echo chamber, like in New York and San Francisco versus…
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 31:52 David Cancel I don't want to build a Boston brand or a San Francisco brand or a New York.
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:49 Matt Turck Uh, the company is based in San Francisco, which has very, uh, interesting orange skies today. 2 times in the scene
Human Intuition for Machines // Sam Anthony, Perceptive Automata (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 8:56 Sam Anthony Like, it just did something so stupid, and you know, maybe they were crazy, it was in San Francisco, but it did something so stupid and annoying I,, I like to believe, because I've seen them do this, that the person just, like, up and, up…
The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 4:36 Thomas Walle And then you're in a city like New York or San Francisco with tall buildings, and you probably experienced this yourself, how the blue dot is, is jumping around.
Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 32:32 Mike Volpi My, you know, I'm, thankfully, I live in this crazy city called San Francisco, and, uh, my office is in south of Market, and so, um, two out of every three people that walk on the sidewalk are engineers.
Empowering Superheroes at Work // Rich Waldron, Tray (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:04 Rich Waldron Um, and we are headquartered in San Francisco, uh, with a big engineering office back in, back in London.
Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 2:08 Matt Turck I mean, you, you basically, that investment that you talk about, uh, between France and San Francisco, that's this company's screen.
Apache Druid & An Introduction to Data Rivers // FJ Yang, Imply (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:45 Solmaz Shahalizadeh Uh, we have a marketing, uh, uh, assistant, which I bought a kit, uh, out of San Francisco.
The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 15:43 Benn Stancil Uh, it's based in San Francisco.
Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 0:13 Sean Gourley Uh, we're based out of San Francisco, but I've got an increasingly big set of teams out here in both D.C. and also New York.
Knowledge Graphs To Understand The World // Hicham Oudghiri, Enigma (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:34 Hicham Oudghiri Um, but, you know, we have this New York City attitude about it, so we have this big San Francisco semantic, let's change the world, how does data actually speak to itself vision, and, uh, New York approach of
A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 10:49 Daniel Chait Um, as much as, you know, if you spend time in New York and San Francisco, you may think that, hey, everybody believes in diversity and, you know, the, the, the things that we ought to be doing ought to be, you know, obvious and easy…
Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 10:33 Natalie Evans-Harris And then in February of this year, we came together in San Francisco, and we announced the results of the working groups, did a whole big thing, it was a great event, and White House, that's what I'm supposed to do, um, and we voted on…
The Evolution and Impact of AI // Ash Fontana, Zetta Venture Partners
- ▶ 1:51 Matt Turck And you're based in San Francisco? 4 times in the scene
AI Startup Predictions // Bradford Cross - A fireside chat with Matt Turck (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:02 Bradford Cross We had something called Data Drinking Group, ah, in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Modernizing Real Estate with Data Science // Ian Wong, Opendoor (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Making On-Demand Delivery Profitable // Jeremy Stanley, Instacart (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 8:25 Jeremy Stanley And this is a screenshot of the system we look at, say our regional manager would look at, for a bunch of different stores in San Francisco.
Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 4:12 Noah Weiss They had kind of SF, Vancouver, and New York, uh, and they were trying to figure out how do we actually work together as a team.
- ▶ 23:15 Matt Turck You mentioned earlier in the conversation that, um, Slack at the very beginning was a distributed company before it became distributed, and so Slack is headquartered in San Francisco, but you're based here, and you're building this team…
Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 22:15 Jeff Chung That's just the nature of how technically challenged these things are, and it is a challenge, you know, whether you're here in New York or you're out there in San Francisco.
Using AI to Predict the Performance of Text // Kieran Snyder, Textio (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:27 Kieran Snyder Um, it's different if you're in New York and, versus in San Francisco, even if you're hiring for the same company.
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 42:45 Peter Fenton Um, you know, you look, especially in San Francisco.
Investing in Data and A.I. // Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:25 Dan Scholnick I mean, I invested in, uh, InfluxDB, and I think it's a great company, but we moved them to, uh, we moved them to San Francisco.
Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:10 Ramana Rao I'm in from San Francisco.
Joseph Essas, OpenTable // Mining Diner Talk (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 7:38 Joseph Essas What people do in San Francisco is not necessarily how people do it in New York, nor necessarily how people talk about food in London.
- ▶ 11:17 Joseph Essas So, for example, you can see in San Francisco, people talk a lot about the view, um, uh, of the Bay, the view of the bridge.
- ▶ 23:13 Joseph Essas So, uh, be it the storm somewhere, or be it even, uh, you know, um, I don't know, game seven and NBA finals, uh, like all those, like San Francisco will be dead, you know, if it's gonna go to game seven.
Jake Porway, DataKind // Data For The Greater Good (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 10:47 Jake Porway These are chapter leaders here doing this work in their own cities, and, ah, be more than happy to talk about how different it is to see doing, ah, Data for Good work in San Francisco, where you've got all the tech talent, but maybe a…
Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:50 Renaud Laplanche The person filling in the application says, I have a San Francisco address, but the, uh, sort of IP address of the machine is, uh, in, um,
Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Tasso Argyros, Aster Data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:35 Tasso Argyros I've invested advice in different startups, and I moved to New York City from San Francisco in 2013, partly because I ran out of new restaurants to try, but also because of, you know, the diversity and the appeal of living in the great…
Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
John Foreman, Mailchimp // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013
- ▶ 4:12 John Foreman Like, I can't even pick Atlanta here, so I picked San Francisco, and I can pick hipster and see that hipsters are in the mission.
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012
- ▶ 7:32 Eric (MemSQL) We shut up shop in San Francisco, um, and then basically went stealth for 1415 months.
Panel: Big data and VCs (Accel, IA Ventures, Data Collective) // Data Driven NYC #8// Oct 2012
- ▶ 1:09:50 Roger Ehrenberg We're super excited to do it, but obviously, you know, our, our portfolio is, is about 50% New York, 50% rest of, rest of country slash world with, you know, London and Tel Aviv, but, you know, kind of San Francisco being the other major…
Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
- ▶ 2:17 Dwight Merriman Um, so I think it was, um, was it in 2009 there was the first NoSQL meetup, I think, in that summer in, in, uh, San Francisco.
- ▶ 32:05 Dwight Merriman Because in general, I think the New York startup scene, it's, it's a little bit more like San Francisco,
Panel: Metamarkets, Kaggle and Quid // Data Driven NYC #4 // Mar 2012
- ▶ 36:22 Mike Driscoll But companies that are looking at news curation or travel prediction or Prismatic is a, is a great company out in San Francisco doing a better job of news creation.
Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
- ▶ 3:40 Kirill Sheynkman Ah, retired for a while, ah, and, ah, went back to San Francisco one more time.
- ▶ 5:52 Kirill Sheynkman No, they're, they're, they're, it's, they're, they're two, ah, Russians, I'm, I'm Russian, so there, there we go, ah, that are in, ah, San Francisco. 2 times in the scene