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

AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next

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

Matt Turck interviews Chris Pedregal, the CEO of Granola, an AI-powered workspace tool, discussing Granola's origins as a tool for thought, its design principles centered on simplicity and user value, and its growth strategy in a competitive market. They explore the balance between AI augmentation and replacement of hu...

Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, about the agentic coding AI and its accidental yet rapid success. They discuss the evolution of coding from punch cards to agentic coding, defining Claude Code as a tool where engineers describe desired chan...

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

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

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Information at Stripe, about Stripe's financial infrastructure platform and its use of AI. Emily discusses Stripe's scale, processing 1.3% of global GDP, and its move beyond payments to optimizing the entire payments lifecycle. The...

AI Engineering Revolution: Winners, Chaos & What’s Next | FirstMark

Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch discusses the company's AI Cloud and V0, a text-to-code AI builder that has doubled Vercel's user base in less than a year with over 100 million app generations. Rauch differentiates between "vibe coding," accessible to everyone, and "agentic engineering," used for mission-critical infrastruc...

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

GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor

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

AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now

Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)

Why Influx Rebuilt Its Database for the IoT and Robotics Explosion

Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data

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

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, about AI in the enterprise. They discuss the proliferation of AI models (both closed and open source) and their impact on businesses, with Arvind noting that while closed models currently dominate, open-source models become more attrac...

Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work

Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, about the evolution of Snowflake from its IPO to its current status as an AI Data Cloud. Sridhar discusses Snowflake's early success in cloud-centric analytics and data sharing, its expansion into native applications, and its...

Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop

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