
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

Oct 25, 2023 • 46min
Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge
Today we're joined by Mathew Lodge, CEO of Diffblue, an AI platform that uses reinforcement learning to autonomously test software. We chat about the "AI for code" landscape, the Diffblue platform, and why prompt engineering is not a thing.

Oct 18, 2023 • 45min
Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu
Today we're joined by Nancy Xu, AI Investor and CEO and Founder of Moonhub AI, the AI recruiting platform helping companies shorten and speed up the recruiting process while also helping employers reach a more diverse pool of candidates. We dive into how the Moonhub platform operates, Nancy's thoughts on opportunities for AI startups, her journey as an investor, and interesting projects she has her eye on.

Oct 11, 2023 • 54min
Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu
Today we're joined by Stanislas Polu, Co-Founder of Dust, a startup building Secure AI assistants for the enterprise. We dive into Stanislas's journey to founding Dust including his experience at Open AI, the path to generative AI adoption in the enterprise, and the rise of the French AI ecosystem.

Oct 4, 2023 • 45min
Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu
Today we're joined by Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, an independent research company developing AI agents with general intelligence, fresh off the announcement of their $200M Series B round of financing. We talk about Kanjun's journey, Imbue's vision and the future of AI agents.

Sep 27, 2023 • 52min
Guardrails AI: Deploying Generative AI Safely with CEO Shreya Rajpal
Today we're joined by Shreya Rajpal, Co-founder & CEO of Guardrails AI for a conversation on the Guardrails platform, mitigating AI hallucinations and the role fine tuning and retrieval augmented generation play in that.

Sep 20, 2023 • 52min
AI21 Labs: Bringing Reliable AI to the Enterprise with Co-Founder Ori Goshen
Joined by Ori Goshen, Co-founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, the podcast explores AI21's origin story, differentiated approach to AI, and neurosymbolic AI. They discuss advances in language models, deploying AI models in different environments, and Israel's talent pool in AI.

Sep 13, 2023 • 40min
AI, Gaming, and Building a Data Science Brand - A Conversation with Carly Taylor, Founder of Rebel Data Science
Today we are excited to welcome Carly Taylor for a broad discussion covering the numerous ways she's ingrained in the AI & data world including AI at Activision’s Call of Duty franchise, consulting at Rebel Data Science and being a prominent voice for data science on social media.

Sep 6, 2023 • 46min
Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic
We're joined by Milos Rusic, CEO & Co-founder of deepset AI for a conversation on deepset's origin story as a bootstrapped company, a deep dive into the Haystack open source project and deepset's Cloud platform, and emerging applications for NLP and LLMs in the enterprise.

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.