Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
+0.17pushback per +1 prominence
1.2/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
0.6/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
384guests measured
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Jobs | 10 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 8 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Olivier Pomel Co-Founder & CEO, Datadog | 8 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Scott Belsky Partner, A24 | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ali Ghodsi Founder & CEO, Databricks | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Dixon Founder & Managing Partner, a16z crypto | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yann LeCun Executive Chairman, AMI Labs | 8 | 1 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Joe Lonsdale Founder & Managing Partner, 8VC | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Howie Liu Co-Founder & CEO, Airtable | 8 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Clement Delangue Founder & CEO, Hugging Face | 8 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ryan Smith Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Qualtrics | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Fenton General Partner, Benchmark | 8 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Fred Wilson Partner & Co-founder, Union Square Ventures | 8 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 8 | 3.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Volpi General Partner, Hanabi Capital | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gary Marcus Founder & Executive Chairman, Robust AI | 7 | 0 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Neha Narkhede Co-founder & CEO, Oscilar | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Anand Sanwal Executive Chair & Co-Founder, CB Insights | 7 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ion Stoica Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bob Muglia Investor & Board Director | 7 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Francois Chollet Co-Founder, Ndea | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Dines Founder & CEO, UiPath | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Guo Founder & General Partner, Conviction | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pedro Domingos Professor Emeritus, University of Washington | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joe Lubin Founder and CEO, Consensys | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder, 10Gen | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Harrison Chase Co-founder & CEO, LangChain | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tristan Handy Founder & CEO, dbt Labs | 7 | 1.3 | 0.7/10 | 3 |
| Chip Huyen Author & Technologist, Tep Studio | 7 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Cathy O'Neil Founder & CEO, ORCAA | 7 | 1.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Richard Socher Founder & CEO, You.com | 7 | 1.8 | 1.8/10 | 4 |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Dohmke Founder and CEO, Entire | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aidan Gomez Co-founder & CEO, Cohere | 7 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tomasz Tunguz Founder & General Partner, Theory Ventures | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Des Traynor Co-Founder and CSO, Intercom | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jerry Liu Co-founder & CEO, LlamaIndex | 7 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dev Ittycheria Former President & CEO, MongoDB | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Wes McKinney Principal Architect, Posit PBC | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Weinberg Co-Founder & CEO, Curie.Bio | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Perret | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 7 | 2.3 | 3.3/10 | 3 |
| Jeremy Howard Co-Founder, Answer.AI | 7 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 7 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Edo Liberty Founder & Chief Scientist, Pinecone | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Wang Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer, Anaconda | 6 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Allon Bloch Co-Founder and CEO, K Health | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stefan Karpinski Co-founder and CPO, JuliaHub | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Viral Shah Co-Founder and CEO, JuliaHub | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder & CEO, Benchling | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Luan Co-Founder, Dextro | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nick Mehta Board Member & Special Advisor, Gainsight | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alexis Le-Quoc Co-Founder and CTO, Datadog | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Spencer Kimball Co-Founder & CEO, Cockroach Labs | 6 | 0.3 | 0.3/10 | 3 |
| Lukas Biewald Co-founder & CEO, Weights & Biases | 6 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Renaud Laplanche Co-founder & CEO, Upgrade, Inc. | 6 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Sean Gourley Partner, Machine Capital | 6 | 0.7 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Hilary Mason Co-founder and CEO, Hidden Door | 6 | 0.7 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Łukasz Kaiser Research Scientist, OpenAI | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Knoop Co-Founder & CEO, Ndea | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| May Habib Co-Founder, Writer | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Renen Hallak Founder & CEO, VAST Data | 6 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Victor Riparbelli Co-Founder & CEO, Synthesia | 6 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| William Falcon Founder & CEO, Lightning AI | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Emil Eifrem Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j | 6 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Zhamak Dehghani Founder & CEO, Nextdata | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Guy Podjarny Founder & CEO, Tessl | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Cancel Co-founder, Drift | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| George Fraser Co-founder & CEO, Fivetran | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Reardon Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ben Uretsky Co-founder & Former CEO, DigitalOcean | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ping Li Partner, Accel | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Ocko Co-Managing Partner & Co-Founder, DCVC | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stephen Balaban Co-Founder & CTO, Lambda | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zico Kolter Professor and Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cris Valenzuela | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Amit Bendov Founder & CEO, Gong | 6 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Sebastian Raschka | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Erik Bernhardsson Founder and CEO, Modal Labs | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amr Awadallah CEO and Co-Founder, Vectara | 6 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Felix Van de Maele Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Roger Ehrenberg Founder & Managing Partner, Eberg Capital | 6 | 2 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Eliot Horowitz Founder & CEO, Viam | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Olson Co-Founder & Chairman, Cloudera | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bryan Catanzaro VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sanjit Biswas Co-Founder and CEO, Samsara | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Wolf Co-founder & CSO, Hugging Face | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Noah Weiss | 6 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nathan Benaich Founder & General Partner, Air Street Capital | 6 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Azeem Azhar Founder, Exponential View | 6 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Arvind Jain Co-founder & CEO, Glean | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Barr Moses Co-Founder & CEO, Monte Carlo | 6 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Auren Hoffman General Partner, Flex Capital | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tim Dettmers Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Founder & Lead Consultant, Seattle Data Guy | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mike Freedman Co-founder & CTO, Timescale | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Housley CTO, Halfpipe Systems | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Reis Co-Author, Fundamentals of Data Engineering | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Ratner Co-Founder & CEO, Snorkel AI | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tasso Argyros VP of Engineering, Databricks | 5 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Julien Le Dem Principal Engineer, Datadog | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Serkan Piantino Founder & CEO, Spell | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Chait Co-founder & CEO, Greenhouse Software | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Levin CEO & Co-Founder, Chainalysis | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Paul Dix Founder & CTO, InfluxData | 5 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Anant Bhardwaj Founder & CEO, Instabase | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dennis Mortensen Founder & CEO, LaunchBrightly | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Omar Tawakol Co-founder & CEO, Rembrand | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Ramot Co-founder & CEO, Via | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Raymie Stata Technical Advisor, Airbnb | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Frida Polli Founder, Rosalind Ventures | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Antoine Bordes Chief Scientist, Helsing | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ian Wong Co-Founder, Opendoor | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kieran Snyder VP of Product, AI, Microsoft | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Skonnard Co-founder & Former CEO, Pluralsight | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Achin General Partner, Cortical Ventures | 5 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Zeiler SVP, Research, Nebius | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Chris Lynch Executive Chairman & CEO, AtScale | 5 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Rick Smolan CEO & Co-Founder, Against All Odds Productions | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Moody Partner, Foundry | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jerome Pesenti CTO, Campus | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Florian Douetteau Co-Founder & CEO, Dataiku | 5 | 0.7 | 1.3/10 | 6 |
| Nathan Lambert Founder, Interconnects AI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Julian Schrittwieser AI Researcher, Anthropic | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jerry Tworek CEO & Co-founder, Core Automation | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sholto Douglas AI Researcher, Anthropic | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lin Qiao Co-Founder & CEO, Fireworks AI | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Justin Borgman Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starburst | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Alex Rinke Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Celonis | 5 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Kanjun Qiu Co-Founder and CEO, Imbue | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ori Goshen Co-Founder & Co-CEO, AI21 Labs | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Munjal Shah Co-founder and CEO, Hippocratic AI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Huber Co-founder & CEO, Chroma | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Catanzaro General Partner, Amplify Partners | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Richard Craib Founder & CEO, Numerai | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Schrock Founder and CTO, Dagster Labs | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bindu Reddy Founder & CEO, Abacus.AI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremiah Lowin Founder & CEO, Prefect | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Diego Oppenheimer Co-Founder, Guardrails AI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dileep George Head of AI, Astera Institute | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ash Fontana Special Advisor, Zetta Venture Partners | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rebecca Lynn Managing Director, Canvas Prime | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Glueck Founder & CEO, Salvo Health | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Tim Hwang | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Phin Barnes Co-Founder & Managing Partner, The General Partnership | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Hawkinson Founder & CEO, BrightAI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Drew Conway Head of Data Science, Private Investments, Two Sigma | 5 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Ahlberg Co-founder and CEO, Recorded Future | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve Schlaffman | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sharon Zhou VP of AI, AMD | 5 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Eleonore Crespo Co-Founder, Pigment | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| George Sivulka Founder & CEO, Hebbia | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Douwe Kiela Research Scientist Director, Google DeepMind | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Katz Co-Founder and CEO, ClickHouse | 5 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Bob van Luijt Co-founder & CEO, Weaviate | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dimitri Sirota Co-Founder and CEO, BigID | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Abbott Partner, Kleiner Perkins | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Fernandez Co-founder & CEO, allUP | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sachin Katti VP of Compute Strategy, OpenAI | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Tigani Co-Founder and CEO, MotherDuck | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Fox Founder & CEO, AssemblyAI | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Fu Assistant Professor, UC San Diego | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Morgan McGuire Independent Researcher & Advisor, Casual Effects | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gary Little President & CEO, Foursquare | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Emi Gal Founder & CEO, Ezra | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Dean Co-Founder and CEO, Snowplow | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Stanislas Polu Co-founder, Dust | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jorge Gomez Sancha Co-Founder and CEO, Tinybird | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gleb Mezhanskiy Co-Founder and CEO, Datafold | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matthias Niessner Professor, Technical University of Munich | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arjun Narayan Venture Partner, Amplify Partners | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Wenchel Co-Founder and CEO, Arthur AI | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rich Waldron Co-founder & CEO, Tray.ai | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Raj De Datta Co-Founder and CEO, Bloomreach | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Vigoda Founder & CEO, Product Genius AI | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jon Hyman Co-founder & CTO, Braze | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ajay Kulkarni Co-founder & CEO, Timescale | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amanda Stent Researcher, Bloomberg | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| George Davis Director of Product, HubSpot | 4 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Solmaz Shahalizadeh AI Operating Partner, HGGC | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dillon Erb Co-founder & CEO, Autonomous Technologies Group | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hicham Oudghiri Founder & CEO, Enigma | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Nadia Boujarwah Founder Partner, Founder Collective | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Kassoumeh Co-Founder and Head of Product, SecurityScorecard | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Satyen Sangani CEO and Co-Founder, Alation | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stan Christiaens Founder & CTO, Collibra | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sean Kandel Co-founder & Former CTO, Trifacta | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Duncan McCall Strategic Advisor, Precisely | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Todd Mostak Founder & CEO, MapD | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jason Grout Scientific Software Developer, Bloomberg | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ashish Thusoo Founder and CEO, CurieTech AI | 4 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Nick (Domino Data Lab) Co-Founder, President & CPO, Domino Data Lab | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jake Flomenberg Partner, Wing Venture Capital | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sameer Maskey Founder & CEO, Fusemachines | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jake Porway Founder & Executive Director, DataKind | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Joseph Essas Co-Founder and Managing Director, Ascend Healthcare | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Scott Crouch Co-Founder and Chairman, Mark43 | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Medlock Co-Founder & Former CTO, SwiftKey | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hanna Wallach Researcher, Microsoft Research covering Big Data and data-driven products. She presented her work during the January 2015 edition of Data Driven NYC. | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amanda Kahlow Founder & CEO, 1mind | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Haoyuan Li Founder & CEO, Alluxio | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Javier de la Torre Founder & CSO, CARTO | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amir Orad CEO, Kraken Technologies | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Bloom Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Liz Crawford CPTO, Flare | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Oren Falkowitz Co-founder & CEO, Area 2 Farms | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anthony Deighton CEO, Tamr | 4 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Michael Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Firsthand | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vance Loiselle CEO, Adeptia | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tobi Knaup VP & GM of Cloud Native, Nutanix | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Robbie Allen Managing Director, Automated Consulting Group | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Gutierrez | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jason Tan Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Sift | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jake Klamka Angel Investor | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ian White Founder, CEO & CTO, ChartHop | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Josh Green Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Novata | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| John Foreman Chief Data Scientist, Mailchimp | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Todd Papaioannou Partner, Bain & Company | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bob Moore Co-Founder & CEO, Crossbeam | 4 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Mike Dauber Investor, Amplify Partners | 4 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Noah Breslow CEO, OnDeck | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Luca Soldaini Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Misha Laskin Co-founder & CEO, Reflection AI | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emily Glassberg Sands Head of Information, Stripe | 4 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Mike Murchison Co-Founder & CEO, Ada | 4 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Benn Stancil Field CTO, ThoughtSpot | 4 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Howard Katzenberg Founder & CEO, Glean AI | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gideon Mann Head of ML, Bloomberg LP leading AI infrastructure and research initiatives. He previously served as Head of Data Science at the company, presenting on Bloomberg's Data for Good efforts at Data Driven NYC. | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 2 |
| DeVaris Brown CEO & Co-Founder, Meroxa | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mike Tuchen CEO, Talend | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bradford Cross Founder & CEO, Alpha City | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Eric Colson Chief Algorithms Officer Emeritus, Stitch Fix | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| M.C. Srivas Former CTO & Co-founder, MapR | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Sinai Managing Director, Insight Partners | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Claudia Perlich Managing Director, Two Sigma | 4 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Bronfman Founder & CEO, Lincoln Avenue Communities | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Founder and CEO, GRID | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mostafa Dehghani Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yann Dubois Research Scientist, OpenAI | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Wiggins Associate Professor, Columbia University | 4 | 1.3 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Neil Zeghidour Co-founder & CEO, Gradium AI | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Eiso Kant Co-Founder & CTO, Poolside | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Chris Pedregal Co-Founder & CEO, Granola | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evan Kaplan CEO, InfluxData | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Misra Co-founder & CEO, Captions | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Founder, SurrealDB | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Kahn AI Editor, Fortune Magazine | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brandon Duderstadt CEO & Co-Founder, Nomic | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zach Nussbaum ML Engineer, Nomic | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shreya Rajpal Co-founder & CEO, Guardrails AI | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Milos Rusic CEO & Co-Founder, deepset AI | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Grover Co-founder & CEO, Stemma | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Abe Gong Founder & CEO, Superconductive | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashley Kramer Chief Revenue Officer, ElevenLabs | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Rockwell Chief Information Officer, Braze | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Drew Silverstein President & Head of AI Strategy, SourceAudio | 4 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dan Scholnick Managing Partner, Four Rivers Group | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dane Atkinson Founder and CEO, Odeko | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric (MemSQL) Founder & CEO, Pomelo | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kirill Sheynkman Senior Managing Director, RTP Ventures | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Felix Rieseberg Engineering Lead, Anthropic | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Roberts Research Lead, OpenAI | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Timothée LeCroix Co-Founder & CTO, Mistral AI | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gustavo Sapoznik Founder and CEO, ASAPP aimed at contact centers. He spoke at Data Driven NYC about the challenges of the market and developing AI technology designed to assist humans. | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nancy Xu CEO & Founder, Moonhub AI | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Ober General Partner, Social Leverage | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Driscoll Co-founder and CEO, Rill Data | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Harry Glaser Founder & CEO, Periscope Data customer/vendor platform context note: Periscope Data context applies directly: Founder & CEO, Periscope Data | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ron Gutman Founder & CEO, HealthTap | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aman Kabeer Investor, FirstMark Capital | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Ali Dasdan CTO, Dropbox | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jack Berkowitz Chief Data Officer, Securiti | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pete DeJoy CEO & Co-founder, Astronomer | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Viraj Parekh Co-founder & Field CTO, Astronomer | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shinji Kim Founder & CEO, Select Star | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Akilesh Bapu Head of AI Product Development, Hightouch | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Sternberg Head of Data, Notion_bio_placeholder | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Co-Founders, SurrealDB | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Carolyn Mooney Co-Founder & CEO, Nextmv | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ahmed Elsamadisi Founder & CEO, Narrator | 3 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Walle Founder & CEO, Unacast | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Natalie Evans-Harris State Chief Data Officer, State of Maryland | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Johnson Founder and CEO, Descartes Labs | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mayur Thakur Managing Director, Bank of America | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kurt Rohloff Co-Founder and CTO, Duality Technologies | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| FJ Yang Co-Founder and CEO, Imply | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Apoorv Agarwal Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Chia Senior Software Engineer, Google Spanner Grade Team Lead, Google Spanner Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead, Google Spanner | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Christine Hung Head of Data Solutions, Spotify | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Prat Moghe CEO, Promethium | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Liz Maida Co-Founder & CEO, Fathom | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yaniv Altshuler Founder & CEO, Alphabiome | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Saar Golde Chief Data Scientist, Via | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Katrin Ribant Founder and CEO, Ask-Y | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Stanley Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Anomalo | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Nguyen Co-Founder and CEO, Aitomatic | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Praveen Murugesan VP of Engineering, Samsara | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nitay Joffe Operating Partner, Team8 | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Evan Macmillan Co-Founder and CEO, Gridspace | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Glueck Data Science & Governance, Peloton Interactive | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Prakash Nanduri Co-founder & Former CEO, Paxata | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Stefan Groschupf Founder and CEO, Automation Hero | 3 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shant Hovsepian CTO, Arcadia Data | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ramana Rao CTO, Livefyre | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alexander Bisignano Biotech Founder & Investor | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Catherine Williams Chief Data Officer, Candid | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ami Daniel Co-Founder and CEO, Windward | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Marcos Jimenez Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, x.ai | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Rauser Lead Data Scientist, Pinterest | 3 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rachel Schutt Co-Head of AI Labs, BlackRock | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stephen Purpura Founder, LOA Solutions Inc. | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Chris Volinsky | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sandy Steier Co-founder & Former CEO, 1010data | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Schmidt Chief Technology Officer, DataRobot | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jordy Leiser Co-Founder and CEO, Jump | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Blake Shaw Senior Director of Engineering, Reddit | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mike Flowers Global Head of Data, AI, and Technology, K2 Integrity | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arnab Gupta CEO, Opera Solutions | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carly Taylor Field CTO for Gaming, Databricks | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alok Gupta Head of Data Science & ML, DoorDash | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nate Stewart CEO, Materialize | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jean Sini General Partner, Partech | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Karasick Former VP of Innovation, IBM Watson | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Stewart Managing Director, GPO Fund | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Semmelhack Founder & CEO, Bug Labs | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gilad Lotan SVP of AI and Data Science, BuzzFeed | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Max Shron Director of Data Science, Switchbox | 3 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Mike Palmer CEO, Sigma Computing | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Mathew Lodge CEO, Diffblue | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Melanie Kambadur Senior Engineering Manager, Meta | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Savin Goyal Co-Founder & CTO, Outerbounds | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kuang Chen Founder and CEO, Captricity | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Kaganovich Co-Founder & CEO, Tracer Biotechnologies | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Drew (InfoChimps) Co-founder & CSO, Unchained | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Greenblatt Chief Scientist, Redwood Research | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pavel Izmailov Assistant Professor, NYU and Researcher, Anthropic | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Humphreys Advisor, Canva | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Johnny Graettinger Co-Founder & CTO, Estuary | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jack Hanlon AI Product Leader, Meta | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Michael James Co-Founder & Chief Architect, Cerebras Systems | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Anthony Board Director, The Many Brains Project | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Johnson Founder, Tero Edge | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zach Sherman Founder, Hyper | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Christa Stelzmuller Chief Technology Officer, charity: water | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Bob Sohval VP & Fellow, Data Science, SecurityScorecard | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Parth Vasa Engineering Director, Meta | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| EJ Bensing VP, Technology, Falfurrias Management Partners | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Louis DiModugno Global Chief Data Officer, Verisk | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Satya Ramachandran Director of Software Engineering, Intuit | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Haile Wusu SVP, Applied Data Science, Warner Bros. Discovery | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Abhra Mitra Former Lead Data Scientist, OnDeck | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Corey Pearson Co-founder, Custora | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dave Miller | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Subramanian Founder & CEO, Trace | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Itai Gurari VP of Research and Development, Fastcase | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Reisinger AI Researcher, Adobe | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Laiacano Software Engineer, NVIDIA | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Scott Sorensen CTO, Ancestry.com | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vaclav Petricek Chief Data Scientist, eHarmony Course/eHarmony | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sebastien Bourgeau AI Research Lead, Google DeepMind | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Corinna Hong Founder & CEO, Axiom | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Walsher Partner, FirstMark | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yimei Fan AI/ML Researcher, Bloomberg | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cristina Pieretti Head of Digital Content and Innovation, Moody's | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dave Burgess Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nick Walter Chief Product Officer, Fliff | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mitch Trojanowski Co-Founder and CEO, Basis | 2 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ivan Borzin | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Cole Ingraham Lead AI Instructor, NYC Data Science Academy | 2 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Loisa Former Chief Data Scientist, Point72 | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrius Sikov | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raza Habib Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Wu Co-host, Second Order Effects | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jesse St. Charles | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kedro Product Manager Senior Director of Product Management, Astronomer | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shawn Budde Co-founder & General Partner, Ensemblex | 1 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
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