The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

Can an AI Therapist Actually Help? (Slingshot AI CEO)

Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant

State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue

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

Building AI for Petabyte-Scale Enterprise Data (TextQL CEO)

How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Jerry Tworek, VP of Research at OpenAI, about the evolution of AI reasoning models. They discuss the concept of reasoning in AI, particularly how models like ChatGPT arrive at answers, and the importance of time and "chain of thought." Tworek explains the progre...

Building the Intelligence Layer for Wall Street (Rogo CEO)

Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Sholto Douglas, a leading AI researcher at Anthropic, about the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, which is considered the best coding model. They discuss the rapid pace of AI releases, the differences between Anthropic's Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models, and Sholto's ...

Ontologies, Evals & Deployed Intelligence: Building Real AI Agents (Basis)

Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO

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

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

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Chris Pedregal, CEO of Granola, about building a successful AI-powered workspace. They discuss Granola's origins as a tool for thought, its focus on augmenting human intelligence rather than replacing it, and the decision to enter a crowded market by prioritizin...

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 that operates in the terminal. They discuss the accidental beginnings of Claude Code, starting as a personal tool for automating note-taking and evolving into a product generating...

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 unique data. They delve into Stripe's decision to build its own AI fo...

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

Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same

Inside a $3B ARR Rocketship — Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys on Deploying AI at Scale

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

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