The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck

The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck goes deep with the people building AI. Each week, Matt talks with top founders, researchers, and leaders about frontier models, agents, infrastructure, and the companies defining the AI economy. Guests include leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, Vercel, LangChain, Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Cerebras, and more. Matt is a General Partner at FirstMark, a prolific investor in AI and the creator of the MAD Landscape, the industry’s reference map of the AI ecosystem. New episodes weekly. Transcripts and more at mattturck.com/podcast.

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Most frequent guests

Benedict Evans 3 episodes
Richard Socher 3 episodes
Nathan Benaich 3 episodes
Florian Douetteau 3 episodes
Aaron Levie 2 episodes
Eiso Kant 2 episodes
Mike Murchison 2 episodes
Sharon Zhou 2 episodes
Aman Kabeer 2 episodes
Renen Hallak 2 episodes

Every guest on The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck

104 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity AI: The AI-Powered Answer Engine with CEO Aravind Srinivas · Nov 2023

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Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software · 3 episodes

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Dylan Patel
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled” · Feb 2026

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Ryan Greenblatt
AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan Greenblatt · Aug 2026

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Daniel Dines
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath · Jun 2024

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Gaurav Misra
Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions · Feb 2025

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Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky: AI & Creativity · Dec 2023

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Aaron Katz
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse · Jun 2024

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Aaron Levie
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job · 2 episodes

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Aidan Gomez
Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents · Jun 2025

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Amjad Masad
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit · Feb 2025

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Andrew Feldman
The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman · Jul 2026

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Arvind Jain
Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search · Apr 2025

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Chip Huyen
What You MUST Know About AI Engineering in 2025 | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering” · Jan 2025

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Chris Pedregal
How to Build a Beloved AI Product - Granola CEO Chris Pedregal · Aug 2025

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Douwe Kiela
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI · Mar 2025

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Eiso Kant
Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant · 2 episodes

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Eric Glyman
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp · Aug 2024

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George Sivulka
Hebbia: Saving Smart People from Mundane Tasks with CEO George Sivulka · Jun 2023

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Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same · Jun 2025

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Howie Liu
How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable · May 2024

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Lin Qiao
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI · Mar 2025

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Olivier Pomel
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog · Sep 2024

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Richard Socher
When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive) · 3 episodes

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Sanjit Biswas
The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas · Jul 2026

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Spencer Kimball
Cockroach Labs: A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival with CEO Spencer Kimball · Aug 2023

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Tomasz Tunguz
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures · May 2024

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Tristan Handy
Is the Modern Data Stack Dead? with dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy · Feb 2024

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Victor Riparbelli
Synthesia: Creating Video with Generative AI with CEO Victor Riparbelli · Jul 2023

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Alex Rinke
Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alexander Rinke · Feb 2024

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Cristóbal Valenzuela
Why generative AI will unlock new art forms | Cris Valenzuela from Runway · Mar 2024

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Kanjun Qiu
Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu · Oct 2023

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Nathan Benaich
State of AI 2026: The Biggest Stories of the Year (and AGI in 2027?) | Nathan Benaich · 3 episodes

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Azeem Azhar
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar · Jul 2024

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Harrison Chase
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain · Mar 2026

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Edo Liberty
Pinecone: Long Term Memory for AI with CEO Edo Liberty · May 2023

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Emily Glassberg Sands
The Rise of Agentic Commerce — Emily Glassberg Sands (Stripe) · Jul 2025

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Erik Bernhardsson
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? | Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal · Oct 2024

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Lukas Biewald
Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald · Aug 2023

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Misha Laskin
Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI · Jul 2025

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Recent episodes

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When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
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AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan Greenblatt
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“OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
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The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
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Jul 2026
OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
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Stripe's AI Chief: How AI Agents Will Buy, Sell, and Pay
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Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
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The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
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OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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May 2026
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
May 2026
OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter on the Real Risks of Frontier AI
with Zico Kolter

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Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
with Felix Rieseberg

Apr 2026
AI is Already Building AI | Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
with Mostafa Dehghani

Apr 2026
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
with Benedict Evans

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