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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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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   Andy Pavlo

   What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo) · Oct 2026

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   Ben Rogojan

   Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy · Jan 2025

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   Brendan Humphreys

   Inside Canva’s $3B ARR AI Design Rocketship — CTO Brendan Humphreys on Magic Studio & Canva Code · Jun 2025

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   Daniel Sternberg

   Notion: An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Head of Data Daniel Sternberg · Jun 2023

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   Dylan Fox

   Assembly AI: Generative AI for Speech Recognition with CEO Dylan Fox · May 2023

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   Emi Gal

   Saving lives with AI | Emi Gal from Ezra · Mar 2024

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   Gary Little

   From Social App to Data Giant: Foursquare's Evolution | Gary Little from Foursquare · Apr 2024

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   Gustavo Sapoznik

   ASAPP: Generative AI for Contact Centers with CEO Gustavo Sapoznik · Dec 2023

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   Howard Katzenberg

   Glean AI: The ML-Powered Accounting Solution with CEO Howard Katzenberg · Nov 2023

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    Jordan Tigani

    The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck · Oct 2024

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    Julian Schrittwieser

    Are We Misreading the AI Exponential? Julian Schrittwieser on Move 37 & Scaling RL (Anthropic) · Oct 2025

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    Justin Borgman

    Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst · Jan 2025

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    Milos Rusic

    Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic · Sep 2023

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    Mitch Troyanovsky

    How to Build Long-Horizon AI Agents — Mitch Troyanovsky, Basis · Aug 2026

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    Morgan McGuire

    AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire from Roblox · Apr 2024

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    Mostafa Dehghani

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

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    Nancy Xu

    Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu · Oct 2023

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    Neil Zeghidour

    Voice AI’s Big Moment: Why Everything Is Changing Now (ft. Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI) · Feb 2026

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    Pavel Izmailov

    Are AI Evals Broken? Anthropic/NYU’s Pavel Izmailov on LLM Evaluation, Reasoning & “Alien” Behavior · Jan 2026

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    Pierre Stock

    Mistral Is SO Back: Inside Le Chonk, the West’s Biggest Open Model (Pierre Stock, VP Science, Mistral) · Oct 2026

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    Renen Hallak

    Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST Data · 2 episodes

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    Sachin Katti

    OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti · Jul 2026

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    Tobie Morgan Hitchcock

    Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB · Oct 2024

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    Yann Dubois

    OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real · May 2026

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