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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Joe Spisak
Meta’s Joe Spisak on Llama 3.1 405B and the Democratization of Frontier Models · Jul 2024

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Johannes Hagemann

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Josh Woodward
Josh Woodward: Google Labs is Rapidly Building AI Products from 0-to-1 · Mar 2025

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Karol Hausman
Training General Robots for Any Task: Physical Intelligence’s Karol Hausman and Tobi Springenberg · Jan 2026

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Katelyn Lesse
Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden · Jul 2026

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Khurram Javed

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Manny Medina
Pricing in the AI Era: From Inputs to Outcomes, with Paid CEO Manny Medina · Apr 2025

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Michael Kagan
Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters · Oct 2025

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Nathan Sobo
Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan Sobo · Dec 2025

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Nick Noone
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph · Sep 2026

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Oege de Moor
XBOW CEO and GitHub Copilot Creator Oege de Moor: Cracking the Code on Offensive Security With AI · Dec 2024

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Parag Agrawal
Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents · Aug 2026

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Patrick Hsu
Arc Institute's Patrick Hsu on Building an App Store for Biology with AI · Apr 2025

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Philip Johnston
Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space · Mar 2026

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Ping Wu
Why AI Will Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia’s Doug Leone · Oct 2025

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Rich Sutton
Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again · Aug 2026

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Rohan Anil

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Sahir Azam
MongoDB’s Sahir Azam: Vector Databases and the Data Structure of AI · Feb 2025

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Stanislas Polu

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Stef Corazza
Roblox Studio Head Stef Corazza: Using AI to Empower Creators · Feb 2025

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Thomas Wolf
Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI · Sep 2025

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Tobi Springenberg

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Will Brown
Building the GitHub for RL Environments: Prime Intellect's Will Brown & Johannes Hagemann · Feb 2026

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