
The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck, is a series of conversations with leaders from across the Machine Learning, AI, & Data landscape hosted by leading AI & data investor and Partner at FirstMark Capital, Matt Turck.
Latest episodes

Aug 30, 2023 • 33min
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 controlling your enterprise data.

Aug 23, 2023 • 49min
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 discuss the vision for Hippocratic AI, and the unique challenges and opportunities of deploying generative AI in the world of healthcare.

Aug 16, 2023 • 47min
You.com: An AI Chatbot to Search The Web with CEO Richard Socher
Richard Socher, top AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor, discusses the core design principles and building blocks of the AI search engine You.com, including its market positioning. Topics include the evolution of You.com's strategy and expansion in Latin America, reducing cows' emissions using AI, and investing at the seed stage in AI founders.

Aug 9, 2023 • 52min
Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald
Today we have the pleasure of talking to Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights and Biases for a conversation about Lukas' entrepreneurial journey building two companies in the MLOps space, the current capabilities of the Weights & Biases platform, lessons learned on the Go to Market front, and more!

Aug 2, 2023 • 44min
Cockroach Labs: A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival with CEO Spencer Kimball
Relational databases, data cloud's effect on infrastructure, serverless databases, and GTM strategies: Matt Turck and CockroachDB's Spencer Kimball cover it all in today's episode.

Jul 26, 2023 • 47min
Ada: AI-First Customer Service with CEO Mike Murchison
Today we're joined by Mike Murchison, Co-Founder & CEO of AI-native customer service platform Ada, for a talk about about the Ada platform, reinventing customer service in the age of Generative AI, and how AI should be onboarded and trained like an employee.

Jul 19, 2023 • 44min
Synthesia: Creating Video with Generative AI with CEO Victor Riparbelli
Today we're joined by Victor Riparbelli, CEO of the generative AI video platform Synthesia that just last month hit a $1B valuation after raising their Series C funding round. Matt and Victor go into the Synthesia platform, what it takes to build a successful AI company, and dive into the ethics of generative AI videos.

Jul 12, 2023 • 41min
LlamaIndex: Unleashing LLMs on Your Data with CEO Jerry Liu
This week we're joined by Jerry Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of LlamaIndex, a startup that offers a data framework for connecting custom data sources to large language models, for a conversation about the emerging Generative AI infrastructure stack, how startup founders navigate a field as new and fast paced as Generative AI, and more.

Jul 5, 2023 • 49min
Dataiku: The Single Platform for Everyday AI with CEO Florian Douetteau
Today we're joined by Florian Douetteau, CEO and Co-Founder of Dataiku, for a conversation about the Dataiku platform, emerging use cases for Generative AI in the enterprise and some leadership lessons learned along the way.You can find Florian's essay, The Children of AI, here: https://children-of-ai.florian-douetteau.comtwitter.com/fdouetteaudataiku.comIn Conversation with Florian Douetteau Blog PostData Driven NYC YouTube Channeltwitter.com/mattturcklinktr.ee/mattturck

Jun 28, 2023 • 26min
Chroma: Programmable AI-Native Databases with Co-Founder Jeff Huber
We're joined by Jeff Huber, Co-founder of Chroma, for a chat on open-source AI-native databases.
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