In this episode, we sit down with Gary Little, CEO of Foursquare, to discuss Foursquare's remarkable evolution from a social app to a leader in location intelligence. Gary discusses how Foursquare uses smartphone ubiquity to create a global map through crowdsourcing, covering 190 countries and over 200 million points of interest. Learn about the challenges of managing complex, real-time datasets and how Foursquare employs machine learning and knowledge graphs to analyze foot traffic and devi...
Apr 03, 2024•25 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of AI art with Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway. Runway is a generative AI startup that co-invented Stable Diffusion, the deep learning technology that has captured the attention of the creative industry, including luminaries such as ASAP Rocky and Madonna's teams, by pushing the boundaries of digital creativity. We explore how generative AI tools empower visual artists to unleash their imaginations without the need for Hollywood-size budgets...
Mar 27, 2024•30 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Join us in this exciting episode as we dive into the world of enterprise AI with Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, the leading enterprise AI platform targeting Global 2000 companies. Since its founding in 2013, Dataiku has been at the forefront of democratizing AI in the enterprise. We'll explore the current state of deployment of AI in businesses around the world, dive deep into the differences between generative AI and traditional AI, explore emerging Generative AI uses cas...
Mar 20, 2024•26 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we sit down with Bob Moore, the CEO of Crossbeam, who turned a $2.6 billion mistake into a masterclass on Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG). Fresh off publishing his new book, Bob shares why ELG is the future of business growth, challenging traditional strategies with data-driven insights and partnerships. Bob reveals how Crossbeam can help companies of any size leverage ELG to achieve remarkable growth. He dives into the role of data in ELG, the impact of AI on marketing, and practica...
Mar 13, 2024•44 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we sat down with Emi Gal, founder and CEO of Ezra, a startup that leverages AI to detect cancer early and inexpensively. Emi provides insights into the landscape of the healthcare sector and talks about the differences between building an AI startup in healthcare versus SaaS. Turns out that "(In AI skills)... are not that transferable." EZRA Website - https://ezra.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/ezrainc Emi Gal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/emigal Twitter - ...
Mar 06, 2024•50 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we sat down with Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom, to explore the seismic shift towards Artificial Intelligence in customer service software. Intercom has gone all-in to embrace AI as people's expectations of what chatbots can do started growing with the release of ChatGPT. Des shares the pivotal moments and strategic decisions that led to this transition, highlighting the urgency and vision that propelled Intercom to integrate AI into their core offerings. Des also delve...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we explore the dynamic world of modern analytics with Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt Labs (https://twitter.com/jthandy). DBT, which helps more than 30,000 enterprises ship trusted data products faster, has raised more than $400 million dollars, most recently at a $4B valuation. We discuss how dbt has revolutionized analytics engineering, enabling seamless data transformation and orchestration in the cloud. This innovation fosters greater collaboration among data teams and integrates ...
Feb 22, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we sat down with Bob van Luijt (https://twitter.com/bobvanluijt), the CEO of Weaviate, diving into the cutting-edge world of vector databases and their role in the AI revolution. Weaviate is an open source, AI-native vector database that helps developers create intuitive and reliable AI-powered applications. Weaviate sets itself apart with its vector search engine that integrates machine learning directly into its core, enabling more nuanced and context-aware search capabilities...
Feb 15, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Last week, we sat down with Alex Rinke (https://twitter.com/alexanderrinke), Co-founder & Co-CEO of Celonis, to explore how AI and automation are transforming business operations at large enterprises. Celonis is the pioneer of "process mining" - the technology that uses graph databases, AI, and automation to analyze processes, find inefficiencies and their root causes, and solve them. Most recently valued at $13B, Celonis is one of the most valuable startups globally. But Alexander and his t...
Feb 08, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are so excited today to be joined by Brandon Duderstadt, CEO + Cofounder, and Zach Nussbaum, Machine Learning Engineer, from Nomic AI. They discuss how Nomic AI is building tools like Atlas + GPT4all that enable everyone to interact with AI scale datasets and run models on consumer computers - and - stay tuned for an exciting announcement about their newest product release later in the podcast. Thanks for joining us for the first episode of Season 2 of the MAD Podcast. We will be back to our ...
Feb 01, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we’re thrilled to be joined by Eiso Kant, CTO + Co-Founder of Poolside, the buzzy new AI tool for software development. Eiso and Matt talk about Poolside’s foundational model, the critical role of data quality in AI, the importance of controlling all levels of the stack and the merits of building a global AI company out of Europe, and more. Thank you to everyone who has joined us for Season 1 of the MAD Podcast. We will be taking a short break for the winter holidays and will be bac...
Dec 20, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we’re joined by Gustavo Sapoznik, Founder and CEO of ASAPP, the generative AI platform transforming contact centers. Matt + Gustavo discuss the magnitude of challenges to overcome in this market, how their AI tech is designed to help humans, the reason smart people should choose working at a startup over Big Tech, and more. This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by se...
Dec 13, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we’re excited to chat with Scott Belsky - author, entrepreneur, investor and Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe. Matt + Scott discuss the impact of AI on creative work, how Adobe is incorporating AI across their products, and what the future creative tools landscape might look like. This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly...
Dec 06, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we’re joined by Howard Katzenberg, CEO of Glean AI, a machine learning powered accounts payable platform. Matt + Howard discuss Glean’s founding story, how Glean helps CFOs make insight driven choices, and more. This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly and are free and open to everyone. And as always, if you enjoy...
Nov 29, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop, the platform for LLM collaboration and evaluation. Matt and Raza cover how to understand and optimize model performance, lessons learned about model evaluation and feedback, and explore the future of model fine-tuning. twitter.com/RazRazcle humanloop.com Data Driven NYC YouTube Channel twitter.com/mattturck linktr.ee/mattturck Shownotes: [00:00:47] How Humanloop helps product and engineering teams build reliable applicati...
Nov 22, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Akilesh Bapu, CEO and Founder of DeepScribe, the platform using AI and Natural Language Processing to doctor/ patient transcripts. Matt and Akilesh go into DeepScribe's clinical use cases, supervised vs. unsupervised learning, and how critical it still is to have a human in the loop in a medical setting.
Nov 15, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Sharon Zhou, CEO of Lamini, an LLM platform for the enterprise. Matt and Sharon go over the battle between prompting and fine-tuning, how the Lamini platform enables fine-tuning to be done "one billion times faster", and their recently-announced "LLM Super-station" in partnership with AMD.
Nov 08, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, a chatbot-style AI conversational engine that directly answers users' questions with sources and citations. Matt & Aravind discuss Perplexity's founding story, the platform itself, and more. This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly...
Nov 01, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Mathew Lodge, CEO of Diffblue, an AI platform that uses reinforcement learning to autonomously test software. We chat about the "AI for code" landscape, the Diffblue platform, and why prompt engineering is not a thing.
Oct 25, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Nancy Xu, AI Investor and CEO and Founder of Moonhub AI, the AI recruiting platform helping companies shorten and speed up the recruiting process while also helping employers reach a more diverse pool of candidates. We dive into how the Moonhub platform operates, Nancy's thoughts on opportunities for AI startups, her journey as an investor, and interesting projects she has her eye on.
Oct 18, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Stanislas Polu, Co-Founder of Dust, a startup building Secure AI assistants for the enterprise. We dive into Stanislas's journey to founding Dust including his experience at Open AI, the path to generative AI adoption in the enterprise, and the rise of the French AI ecosystem.
Oct 11, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, an independent research company developing AI agents with general intelligence, fresh off the announcement of their $200M Series B round of financing. We talk about Kanjun's journey, Imbue's vision and the future of AI agents.
Oct 04, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're joined by Shreya Rajpal, Co-founder & CEO of Guardrails AI for a conversation on the Guardrails platform, mitigating AI hallucinations and the role fine tuning and retrieval augmented generation play in that.
Sep 27, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we are joined by Ori Goshen, Co-founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, for a conversation about AI 21's origin story, their differentiated approach to AI, and their ambitious platform and applications.
Sep 20, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we are excited to welcome Carly Taylor for a broad discussion covering the numerous ways she's ingrained in the AI & data world including AI at Activision’s Call of Duty franchise, consulting at Rebel Data Science and being a prominent voice for data science on social media.
Sep 13, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're joined by Milos Rusic, CEO & Co-founder of deepset AI for a conversation on deepset's origin story as a bootstrapped company, a deep dive into the Haystack open source project and deepset's Cloud platform, and emerging applications for NLP and LLMs in the enterprise.
Sep 06, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dimitri Sirota, Co-Founder and CEO of BigID, which has raised $280+ to date, joins us for a chat about the importance and complexities around knowing and controlling your enterprise data.
Aug 30, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we are diving into the world of generative AI in Healthcare with CEO and Co-founder of Hippocratic AI, Munjal Shah. In this episode Matt and Munjal discuss the vision for Hippocratic AI, and the unique challenges and opportunities of deploying generative AI in the world of healthcare.
Aug 23, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week’s guest is top AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor Richard Socher, CEO of AI search engine You.com. In this conversation, we go behind the scenes and discuss some core design principles and building blocks of the You.com platform, as well as its market positioning. We close the discussion with Richard’s investment thesis and approach in the fast moving AI market
Aug 16, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have the pleasure of talking to Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights and Biases for a conversation about Lukas' entrepreneurial journey building two companies in the MLOps space, the current capabilities of the Weights & Biases platform, lessons learned on the Go to Market front, and more!
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