Episodes
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34 episodes in 2024
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52m Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Dataiku CEO and co-founder Florian Douetteau about his background in French tech, the creation and platform evolution of Dataik…
19 statements 5 featured
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35m Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder of Writer, exploring how the company grew into a $1.9 billion full-stack generative AI platform. …
12 statements 6 featured 1 assessments 1 contradicted
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51m State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
Host Matt Turck interviews Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street Capital and author of the annual State of AI Report, to discuss key research, commercial, and geopolitical trends defining ar…
22 statements 6 featured 8 assessments
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1h 9m Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
In this end-of-year 2024 episode of The MAD Podcast, FirstMark venture capitalists Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer analyze the state of artificial intelligence, evaluating record startup valuatio…
39 statements 11 featured 23 assessments
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56m Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson about building serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data applications. Erik discusses Mo…
25 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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59m The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani joins Matt Turck to discuss why 'Big Data is Dead,' explaining how small data analytics powered by DuckDB offers superior lat…
14 statements 4 featured 3 assessments
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1h 7m The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clem Delangue about the critical importance of open-source artificial intelligence, the paradig…
31 statements 9 featured 4 assessments
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1h 28m AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Richard Socher, CEO of You.com and Managing Partner at AIX Ventures, exploring the macro impact of artificial intelligence, sca…
33 statements 12 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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53m Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO and Co-Founder of SurrealDB, exploring the seven-year journey of building a unified, multi-model da…
20 statements 6 featured 5 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 1m AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Datadog co-founder and CEO Olivier Pomel on Datadog's growth into a multi-billion-dollar cloud observability and security platf…
28 statements 10 featured 2 assessments
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25m Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
Timescale CTO Mike Freedman presents a compelling case for extending PostgreSQL to handle time-series analytics and AI vector search workloads without replacing existing database infrastruct…
9 statements 4 featured 4 assessments
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45m AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, ZoomInfo CTO Ali Dasdan joins host Matt Turck to discuss ZoomInfo's modern data architecture, multi-cloud ingestion pipelines, and the deployment of Gener…
14 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
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49m AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
In this episode of The MAD Podcast hosted by Matt Turck, Ramp CEO Eric Glyman discusses how the fintech unicorn leverages real-time data architecture, generative AI, and tight cross-function…
26 statements 7 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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44m Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Sharon Zhou, CEO of Lamini, exploring the enterprise shift from AI hype to mission-critical deployments. Zhou details Lamini's …
18 statements 6 featured 4 assessments
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48m An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Jeremy Kahn, AI Editor at Fortune and author of 'Mastering AI', to discuss human agency in an automated world, workforce transf…
21 statements 8 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 1m From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
On The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews author Azeem Azhar about how exponential technologies—from large language models to renewable energy—are reshaping global economics, enterprise…
19 statements 7 featured 7 assessments
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49m How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews ClickHouse CEO Aaron Katz about how ClickHouse evolved from an open-source database into a fast-growing real-time cloud data pl…
26 statements 9 featured 5 assessments
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1h 13m From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
In this episode of the MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews UiPath co-founder and CEO Daniel Dines about the company's evolution from a small Bucharest startup into a global enterprise AI…
34 statements 13 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 2m How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Airtable Co-Founder and CEO Howie Liu to discuss Airtable's ten-year journey from a bottom-up PLG startup to a cash-flow positi…
19 statements 10 featured
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55m AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz, founder of Theory Ventures, to discuss macro funding trends in AI, the evolution of the Moder…
43 statements 12 featured 14 assessments 3 contradicted
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45m The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Renen Hallak, CEO and Founder of VAST Data, discussing how the $9 billion startup achieved hyper-growth and cash-flow positivit…
29 statements 11 featured 5 assessments 2 contradicted
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49m Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
FirstMark Capital's Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer analyze the 2024 Machine Learning, AI & Data (MAD) Landscape, examining market saturation, the transition from structured data to AI infrastruc…
13 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
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50m AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
In this episode of the MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist at Roblox, to discuss how the company leverages custom infrastructure, machine learning moderat…
16 statements 5 featured 6 assessments 2 contradicted
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51m Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, tech analyst Benedict Evans joins host Matt Turck to analyze generative AI's impact on software architecture, enterprise workflows, tech hype cycles, and …
20 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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24m Foursquare’s Remarkable Transformation Into Leading Location Intelligence Platform | Gary Little
Recorded live at Data-Driven NYC, host Matt Turck interviews Foursquare CEO Gary Little on the company's evolution from a consumer check-in app into a leading enterprise location intelligenc…
11 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
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29m Hollywood Producers FREAK OUT over AI | Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway
In this live recording from Foursquare HQ, Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela joins Matt Turck to explore the generative AI creative revolution, discussing Runway's technological evolution, model ar…
17 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
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26m 2024 will be the year of ENTERPRISE AI | Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku
Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau joins Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to discuss the evolution of enterprise AI, explaining how companies are moving from experimental generative AI projects to p…
10 statements 3 featured
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44m AI's Killing Marketing. Ecosystem-Led Grow is the Future | Bob Moore, the CEO of Crossbeam
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore joins host Matt Turck to discuss his book 'Ecosystem-Led Growth' and explain how partner data and ecosystem networks are revolutio…
13 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
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50m AI is now revolutionizing early cancer detection | Emi Gal, CEO of Ezra
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Emi Gal, co-founder and CEO of Ezra, discussing how artificial intelligence is accelerating full-body MRI scanning to make earl…
29 statements 9 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 2m How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom, joins host Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to discuss Intercom's rapid pivot to becoming an AI-first customer support platform, …
29 statements 10 featured 1 assessments
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47m Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews dbt Labs Co-founder and CEO Tristan Handy to explore the evolution of the modern data stack, the rise of the analytics stack, t…
22 statements 9 featured 1 assessments
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33m Vector databases and the $8 trillion open source market | Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate
In this episode of 'The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck', Weaviate Co-Founder and CEO Bob van Luijt discusses the central role of vector databases and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in mod…
16 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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35m Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alex Rinke
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Celonis co-founder and CEO Alex Rinke to discuss how the company pioneered process mining, scaled from a $15,000 university pro…
11 statements 4 featured 2 assessments
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41m How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Nomic AI founders Brandon Duderstadt and Zach Nussbaum as they unveil Nomic Embed and discuss their mission to democratize arti…
16 statements 5 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted