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Training Data

Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.

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Most frequent guests

  1. Harrison Chase 3 episodes
  2. Matan Grinberg 2 episodes
  3. Mati Staniszewski 2 episodes

Every guest on Training Data

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

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    Jensen Huang

    LIVE: Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age · Jun 2026

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    Demis Hassabis

    Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI · Apr 2026

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    Sam Altman

    LIVE: Sam Altman of OpenAI on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life · May 2025

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    Winston Weinberg

    How AI Breakout Harvey is Transforming Legal Services, with CEO Winston Weinberg · Mar 2025

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    Greg Brockman

    OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck · May 2026

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    Dylan Patel

    Why Hardware-Software Co-Design Is AI's Real 100x: Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis · Jun 2026

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    Andrej Karpathy

    Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering · Apr 2026

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    Noam Brown

    OpenAI's Noam Brown, Ilge Akkaya and Hunter Lightman on o1 and Teaching LLMs to Reason Better · Oct 2024

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    Dmitri Dolgov

    Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy · May 2026

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    Kevin Scott

    Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on How Far Scaling Laws Will Extend · Jul 2024

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    Thomas Dohmke

    GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, and the the Future of Software Development · Aug 2024

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    Vlad Tenev

    Why Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim of Harmonic Think AI Is About to Change Math—and Why It Matters · Sep 2024

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    Aaron Levie

    Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion · Sep 2026

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    Amit Bendov

    Gong’s Amit Bendov: From Meeting Recordings to Revenue AI · May 2025

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    Amjad Masad

    Replit CEO Amjad Masad on 1 Billion Developers: A Better End State than AGI? · Apr 2025

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    Arvind Jain

    How Glean CEO Arvind Jain Solved the Enterprise Search Problem – and What It Means for AI at Work · Oct 2024

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    Boris Cherny

    Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment · May 2026

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    Bret Taylor

    LIVE: How AI is Reinventing Software Business Models ft. Bret Taylor of Sierra · May 2025

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    Carl Eschenbach

    Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach: Building the System of Record for the AI Era · May 2025

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    Clay Bavor

    Sierra Co-Founder Clay Bavor on Making Customer-Facing AI Agents Delightful · Aug 2024

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    Elias Torres

    Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias Torres · Sep 2025

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    Eric Glyman

    Ramp CEO Eric Glyman: Using AI to Build “Self-Driving Money” · Dec 2024

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    Frank Slootman

    Crucible Moments Returns for S2: The ServiceNow Story ft. CEO Frank Slootman & Founder Fred Luddy · Sep 2024

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    Guillermo Rauch

    Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: Building the Generative Web with AI · Aug 2025

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    Joon Sung Park

    Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park · Jun 2026

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    Kareem Amin

    Clay’s Kareem Amin on Building the Sales ‘System of Action’ with AI · Nov 2024

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    Lin Qiao

    Fireworks Founder Lin Qiao on How Fast Inference and Small Models Will Benefit Businesses · Aug 2024

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    Logan Kilpatrick

    Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness · Jun 2026

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    Matan Grinberg

    Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming ‘Dark Factory’ Where Software Builds Itself · 2 episodes

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    Mati Staniszewski

    ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything · 2 episodes

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    Mikey Shulman

    Suno's Mikey Shulman: Everyone Can Make Music Now · May 2026

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    Nikesh Arora

    Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora: AI, Security and the New World Order · Feb 2025

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    Raiza Martin

    Google NotebookLM’s Raiza Martin and Jason Spielman on Creating Delightful AI Podcast Hosts and the Potential for Source-Grounded AI · Oct 2024

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    Sanjit Biswas

    Why the Next AI Revolution Will Happen Off-Screen: Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas · Dec 2025

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    Sebastian Siemiatkowski

    Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Getting AI to Do the Work of 700 Customer Service Reps · Jul 2024

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    Sridhar Ramaswamy

    Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on Using Data to Create Simple, Reliable AI for Businesses · Oct 2024

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    Zach Lloyd

    Making the Case for the Terminal as AI's Workbench: Warp’s Zach Lloyd · Jan 2026

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    Pushmeet Kohli

    DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli on AI's Scientific Revolution · Jul 2025

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  6. Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil

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  7. Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming ‘Dark Factory’ Where Software Builds Itself

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  8. Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

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  9. Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents
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  10. Why Hardware-Software Co-Design Is AI's Real 100x: Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis

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  12. Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park

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  13. Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness

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  14. LIVE: Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age

    with Jensen Huang

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  15. Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss

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  16. How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL
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  17. Rebuilding IT From the Ground Up for the AI Age: Serval's Jake Stauch

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  18. Suno's Mikey Shulman: Everyone Can Make Music Now

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  19. ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything

    with Mati Staniszewski

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  20. Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment

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  21. Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy

    with Dmitri Dolgov

    May 2026
  22. OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck

    with Greg Brockman

    May 2026
  23. Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI

    with Demis Hassabis

    Apr 2026
  24. Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

    with Andrej Karpathy

    Apr 2026
  25. From SEO to Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James Cadwallader

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