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Founded & Funded — 104 episodes
Is AI a Bubble? What PitchBook's Head of Research Sees in the Data
Why AI Made Your Buyers Harder to Sell To
The Best Infrastructure Moment Since Cloud
AGI Needs Formal Reasoning. Carina Hong is Building it at Axiom.
Palantir Alum Explains How AI is Used and Bought by the Federal Government
Zapier Has More AI Agents Than Employees. Here's How That Happened
Twitter's Ex-CEO: The Web Was Built for Humans — Let's Make it Work for AI Agents
How to Sell AI Into the Enterprise: Pilots, Pricing, and Closing 12-Month Deals
The Infrastructure of Intelligence: Inside Crusoe's Massive AI Factory in Texas
Can We Trust AI? The Future of Verified Reasoning in High-Stakes Systems
Microsoft's Agent Factory: The Future of AI Software with EVP of Core AI Jay Parikh
How — and What — to Build in the Age of OpenAI
The Analyst Mindset in Venture: Madrona Investor Rasik Parikh's story
Redefining Communication: Yoodli Founders on AI Roleplays, Confidence & Building in Seattle
From Google and Amazon to NewDays: Why These Tech Vets Bet on AI for Dementia
The Future of Biology Is Generative: Inside Synthesize Bio's RNA AI Model
From $1M to $10M ARR in 6 Months: How Fyxer is Winning AI Productivity
Autonomous CRM: How Clarify Is Reinventing a $100B Category
Bridging Strategy and Startups: Madrona Investor Rolanda Fu's Story
V0's Creator on What's Next for AI Dev Tools
Engineering in the AI Era: Qodo Founder on the AI-Powered SDLC
Breaking into Enterprise: How Anagram Landed Disney with Cold Outbound
Building Biotech in Seattle: Madrona Investor Spotlight with Joe Horsman
The End of Biz Apps? AI, Agility, and The Agent-Native Enterprise from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna
Building AI That Sells: Scaling Smarter with Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody
Customer Obsession & Agentic AI Power Ravenna's Reinvention of Internal Ops
Reinventing Recruiting: SeekOut's Anoop Gupta on the Rise of Agentic AI
Unscripted: What Happened After the Mic Went Off with Douwe Kiela
AI, Ambition, and a $3 Trillion Vision: Satya Nadella on Microsoft's Bold Bet
RAG Inventor Talks Agents, Grounded AI, and Enterprise Impact
Dropzone's Edward Wu on Solving Security's Biggest Bottleneck
AI+Data in the Enterprise: Lessons from Mosaic to Databricks
Scaling, AI, and Leadership after Big Tech: Lessons from Highspot's Bhrighu Sareen
Serial Entrepreneur Mohit Aron on Founding, Scaling, and Leading Category-Leading Companies
Terray's Jacob Berlin on The AI-Powered Future of Medicine
Curt Medeiros on Revolutionizing Precision Medicine and Scaling Ovation
Breaking Conventional Wisdom: Jama Software's Blueprint for Profitable Growth
Archon's Jamie Lazarovits on Unlocking the Full Power of Antibodies With AI
Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured's Brian Raymond
Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj's Chris Diorio
Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM
From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson
Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications
Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders
Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot's Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming
Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications
Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair
Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents
Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont
Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing
How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise
Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona's Soma Somasegar
Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work
From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie
The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain
Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona's Tim Porter
Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance
Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership
Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle
Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter
Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru
Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI
NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets
Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production
Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs'
Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition
Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Vivek Ramaswami
Airtable's Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth & Embedding a 'Little LLM Brain' in Every Cell
Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling
Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow
Panther Labs Founder Jack Naglieri on Cloud-Native SIEM and Self-Growth
MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani and DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen on partnerships and commercializing open-source projects
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences
IA40 Spotlight: Credo AI's Navrina Singh on 'AI-First, Ethics Forward' Responsible AI
Acquired Hosts Ben and David on Getting Started at Madrona and Tom Alberg's Legacy
Common Room's Viraj Mody on Building Community, Foundation Models and Being Relentless
Investor Spotlight with Matt McIlwain
Leaf Logistics CEO Anshu Prasad on Applying AI to Freight and Transportation Logistics
Lexion's Gaurav Oberoi on Applying AI to Change an Industry
Magnify's Josh Crossman on Incubating a Startup and Bringing AI to the Customer Experience
IA40 Spotlight: A-Alpha Bio's David Younger on machine learning in biotech, building cross-functional teams
IA40 Spotlight: dbt Labs Founder Tristan Handy on the modern data stack, partnerships, and creating community
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on the Modern Data Stack and Lessons from Snowflake
IA40 Spotlight: Fivetran CEO George Fraser on Data Replication and Connectors
Stack Co-Founder and CEO Will Rush on Teen Crypto Investing
Battlesnake Founder Brad Van Vugt on Creating Community Through Programming Competitions
IA40 Spotlight: Tesorio Co-founders Carlos Vega and Fabio Fleitas on Automating Accounts Receivable
IA40 Spotlight: Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam on Using AI to Empower People to be More Productive
CommerceIQ's Guru Hariharan on Pivoting When You're in the Wrong Market
Top Tier's David York on Limited Partners, Market Conditions
Sila Co-founder and CEO Shamir Karkal on Crypto and Web3
IA40 Winner Spotlight: Snorkel Co-founder Alex Ratner on data-centric AI, culture, and 'one of the most historic opportunities for growth in AI'
Robotics Expert Sidd Srinivasa on Trends and What's Ripe for Innovation
IA40 Spotlight - Madrona and PitchBook Partner for IA40
IA40 Spotlight: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen on AI-powered talent solutions, developing talent, and maintaining culture
IA40 Spotlight: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and OctoML CEO Luis Ceze on foundation models, open source, and transparency
IA40 Spotlight: Starburst CEO Justin Borgman on entrepreneurship, cloud partnerships and enabling intelligent applications
IA40 Spotlight: RunwayML Co-Founder Cristobal Valenzuela on the Intersection of Art and Technology
Founder Voices from Madrona's Annual Meeting
Qumulo CEO Bill Richter on the Benefits of Enterprise Partnerships