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Founded & Funded — 102 episodes

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The Best Infrastructure Moment Since Cloud

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AGI Needs Formal Reasoning. Carina Hong is Building it at Axiom.

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Palantir Alum Explains How AI is Used and Bought by the Federal Government

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Zapier Has More AI Agents Than Employees. Here's How That Happened

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Twitter's Ex-CEO: The Web Was Built for Humans — Let's Make it Work for AI Agents

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How to Sell AI Into the Enterprise: Pilots, Pricing, and Closing 12-Month Deals

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The Infrastructure of Intelligence: Inside Crusoe's Massive AI Factory in Texas

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Can We Trust AI? The Future of Verified Reasoning in High-Stakes Systems

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Microsoft's Agent Factory: The Future of AI Software with EVP of Core AI Jay Parikh

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How — and What — to Build in the Age of OpenAI

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The Analyst Mindset in Venture: Madrona Investor Rasik Parikh's story

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Redefining Communication: Yoodli Founders on AI Roleplays, Confidence & Building in Seattle

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From Google and Amazon to NewDays: Why These Tech Vets Bet on AI for Dementia

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The Future of Biology Is Generative: Inside Synthesize Bio's RNA AI Model

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From $1M to $10M ARR in 6 Months: How Fyxer is Winning AI Productivity

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Autonomous CRM: How Clarify Is Reinventing a $100B Category

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Bridging Strategy and Startups: Madrona Investor Rolanda Fu's Story

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V0's Creator on What's Next for AI Dev Tools

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Engineering in the AI Era: Qodo Founder on the AI-Powered SDLC

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Breaking into Enterprise: How Anagram Landed Disney with Cold Outbound

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Building Biotech in Seattle: Madrona Investor Spotlight with Joe Horsman

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The End of Biz Apps? AI, Agility, and The Agent-Native Enterprise from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna

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Building AI That Sells: Scaling Smarter with Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody

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Customer Obsession & Agentic AI Power Ravenna's Reinvention of Internal Ops

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Reinventing Recruiting: SeekOut's Anoop Gupta on the Rise of Agentic AI

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Unscripted: What Happened After the Mic Went Off with Douwe Kiela

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AI, Ambition, and a $3 Trillion Vision: Satya Nadella on Microsoft's Bold Bet

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RAG Inventor Talks Agents, Grounded AI, and Enterprise Impact

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Dropzone's Edward Wu on Solving Security's Biggest Bottleneck

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AI+Data in the Enterprise: Lessons from Mosaic to Databricks

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Scaling, AI, and Leadership after Big Tech: Lessons from Highspot's Bhrighu Sareen

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Serial Entrepreneur Mohit Aron on Founding, Scaling, and Leading Category-Leading Companies

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Terray's Jacob Berlin on The AI-Powered Future of Medicine

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Curt Medeiros on Revolutionizing Precision Medicine and Scaling Ovation

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Breaking Conventional Wisdom: Jama Software's Blueprint for Profitable Growth

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Archon's Jamie Lazarovits on Unlocking the Full Power of Antibodies With AI

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Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured's Brian Raymond

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Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj's Chris Diorio

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Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM

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From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson

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Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications

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Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders

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Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot's Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming

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Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications

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Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair

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Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents

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Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont

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Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond

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How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing

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How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise

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Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona's Soma Somasegar

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Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work

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From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie

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The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain

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Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona's Tim Porter

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Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance

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Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership

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Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source

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Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle

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Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter

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Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru

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Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI

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NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets

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Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production

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Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops

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Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs'

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Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition

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Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy

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Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Vivek Ramaswami

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Airtable's Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth & Embedding a 'Little LLM Brain' in Every Cell

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Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling

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Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow

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Panther Labs Founder Jack Naglieri on Cloud-Native SIEM and Self-Growth

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MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani and DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen on partnerships and commercializing open-source projects

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences

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IA40 Spotlight: Credo AI's Navrina Singh on 'AI-First, Ethics Forward' Responsible AI

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Acquired Hosts Ben and David on Getting Started at Madrona and Tom Alberg's Legacy

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Common Room's Viraj Mody on Building Community, Foundation Models and Being Relentless

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Investor Spotlight with Matt McIlwain

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Leaf Logistics CEO Anshu Prasad on Applying AI to Freight and Transportation Logistics

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Lexion's Gaurav Oberoi on Applying AI to Change an Industry

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Magnify's Josh Crossman on Incubating a Startup and Bringing AI to the Customer Experience

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IA40 Spotlight: A-Alpha Bio's David Younger on machine learning in biotech, building cross-functional teams

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IA40 Spotlight: dbt Labs Founder Tristan Handy on the modern data stack, partnerships, and creating community

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Data Visionary Bob Muglia on the Modern Data Stack and Lessons from Snowflake

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IA40 Spotlight: Fivetran CEO George Fraser on Data Replication and Connectors

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Stack Co-Founder and CEO Will Rush on Teen Crypto Investing

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Battlesnake Founder Brad Van Vugt on Creating Community Through Programming Competitions

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IA40 Spotlight: Tesorio Co-founders Carlos Vega and Fabio Fleitas on Automating Accounts Receivable

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IA40 Spotlight: Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam on Using AI to Empower People to be More Productive

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CommerceIQ's Guru Hariharan on Pivoting When You're in the Wrong Market

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Top Tier's David York on Limited Partners, Market Conditions

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Sila Co-founder and CEO Shamir Karkal on Crypto and Web3

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IA40 Winner Spotlight: Snorkel Co-founder Alex Ratner on data-centric AI, culture, and 'one of the most historic opportunities for growth in AI'

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Robotics Expert Sidd Srinivasa on Trends and What's Ripe for Innovation

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IA40 Spotlight - Madrona and PitchBook Partner for IA40

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IA40 Spotlight: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen on AI-powered talent solutions, developing talent, and maintaining culture

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IA40 Spotlight: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and OctoML CEO Luis Ceze on foundation models, open source, and transparency

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IA40 Spotlight: Starburst CEO Justin Borgman on entrepreneurship, cloud partnerships and enabling intelligent applications

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IA40 Spotlight: RunwayML Co-Founder Cristobal Valenzuela on the Intersection of Art and Technology

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Founder Voices from Madrona's Annual Meeting

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Qumulo CEO Bill Richter on the Benefits of Enterprise Partnerships