The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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

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

OpenAI: 5 Lessons from Real-World AI Agent Deployments

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

Jeremy Howard, co-founder of Answer AI and Fast.ai, discusses the company's mission to create societal benefits from AI through a focus on R&D rather than traditional research. Howard emphasizes the importance of open-source AI, particularly models from China like Quen and DeepSeek, for their flexibility and collaborat...

Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech

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 the evolution and future of AI in enterprise search and agent technology. Arvind shares his insights on the proliferation of AI models, the shift from closed to open-source models, and the practical applications of AI agents in a...

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

From OpenSea to OpenRouter: Alex Atallah’s Masterplan for LLMs | Data Driven NYC

Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race

From Palantir to Thread AI: Angela McNeal’s AI Blueprint | Data Driven NYC

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

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

Generative AI infrastructure requires a fundamental shift from building models from scratch to leveraging foundation models, where the primary challenge moves to efficient deployment. Fireworks AI addresses this by abstracting the complex three-dimensional optimization space of quality, speed, and cost, allowing develo...

Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI

From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators

Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada

The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit

Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst

Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy

The podcast explores the current state and future trends in data engineering, particularly in light of advancements in AI. Ben Rogojan, also known as Seattle Data Guy, shares his insights on the evolving roles within data teams, emphasizing the need for data engineers to understand business needs and communicate effect...

What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”