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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Every guest on Training Data

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

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Jason Kelly
How Autonomous Labs Will Transform Scientific Research: Ginkgo Bioworks’ Jason Kelly · Mar 2026

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Eric Steinberger
Founder Eric Steinberger on Magic’s Counterintuitive Approach to Pursuing AGI · Sep 2024

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Harrison Chase
Context Engineering Our Way to Long-Horizon Agents: LangChain’s Harrison Chase · 3 episodes

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Mike Knoop
Zapier’s Mike Knoop launches ARC Prize to Jumpstart New Ideas for AGI · Jul 2024

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Daniel Nadler
The AI Product Going Viral With Doctors: OpenEvidence, with CEO Daniel Nadler · Mar 2025

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Misha Laskin
Reflection AI’s Misha Laskin on the AlphaGo Moment for LLMs · Jul 2024

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Jon Noronha
Scaling the ‘Cursor for Slides’ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha · Aug 2025

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Max Jaderberg
The Quest to ‘Solve All Diseases’ with AI: Isomorphic Labs’ Max Jaderberg · Apr 2025

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Tudor Achim

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Alex Kendall
How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall · Nov 2025

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Alfred Wahlforss
Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss · Jun 2026

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Angela Jiang

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Ben Rudolph

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Bob McGrew
The Breakthroughs Needed for AGI Have Already Been Made: OpenAI Former Research Head Bob McGrew · Jun 2025

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Christopher O’Donnell
Why CRM Needs an AI Revolution, with Day.ai Founder Christopher O’Donnell · Apr 2025

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Dan Biderman
Memory and Continual Learning: Engram's Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin · Jun 2026

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Dan Lahav
Securing the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan Lahav · Oct 2025

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Dan Roberts
OpenAI Researcher Dan Roberts on What Physics Can Teach Us About AI · Oct 2024

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Dara Ladjevardian
Delphi’s Dara Ladjevardian: How AI Digital Minds Can Scale Human Connection · Aug 2025

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Dean Leitersdorf
Decart’s Dean Leitersdorf on AI-Generated Video Games and Worlds · Nov 2024

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Dhanji Prasanna
Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent · Sep 2025

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Eric Ho
Mapping the Mind of a Neural Net: Goodfire’s Eric Ho on the Future of Interpretability · Jul 2025

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Filip Kozera
From Software Engineers to AI Word Artisans: Filip Kozera of Wordware · Mar 2025

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Fred Luddy

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Gabriel Hubert
Dust’s Gabriel Hubert and Stanislas Polu: Getting the Most From AI With Multiple Custom Agents · Nov 2024

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Hema Raghavan
Kumo’s Hema Raghavan: Turning Graph AI into ROI · Jan 2025

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Hunter Lightman

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Ilge Akkaya

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Ioannis Antonoglou
ReflectionAI Founder Ioannis Antonoglou: From AlphaGo to AGI · Jan 2025

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Ion Stoica
Databricks Founder Ion Stoica: Turning Academic Open Source into Startup Success · Jan 2025

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Jake Stauch
Rebuilding IT From the Ground Up for the AI Age: Serval's Jake Stauch · May 2026

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

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Jamie Cuffe
What’s the Future of Vertical SaaS in an AGI World? Jamie Cuffe, CEO of Pace · Feb 2026

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Jan Oberhauser
n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser on Building the Universal AI Automation Layer · Aug 2025

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Jason Spielman

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Jeff Dean
LIVE: Google's Jeff Dean on the Coming Transformations in AI · May 2025

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Jerry Tworek
Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil · Jul 2026

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Jessy Lin

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Jim Fan
Jim Fan on Nvidia’s Embodied AI Lab and Jensen Huang’s Prediction that All Robots will be Autonomous · Sep 2024

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Jim Gao
Phaidra’s Jim Gao on Building the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Reinforcement Learning · Aug 2024

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