Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Timothy Chen is the founder and general partner at Essence Ventures, a VC firm that specializes in data infrastructure and developer tools. Prior to Essence, he was the SVP of Engineering at Cosmos, a popular open source blockchain SDK. He cofounded Hyperpilot with Stanford Professor Christos Kozyrakis to disrupt the enterprise infrastructure space, which later exited to Cloudera. He was an early...

AI has been attracting talent from many different sectors. In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 11 things to keep in mind for software engineers to get into AI. -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com  Website: https://prateekj.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19  Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Jon Turow is a partner at Madrona, a VC firm that has invested in amazing companies like OctoML, HighSpot, Fixie, Clari, Runway, UiPath, and many more. He holds 26 patents! Most recently, he led the product teams for AWS Computer Vision AI services, including Amazon Textract and Amazon Rekognition. He wrote the original product and business plans for AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass, which extend AWS se...

Sam Baker is an investor at Scale Venture Partners, a VC firm that has invested in amazing companies such as HubSpot, DocuSign, Box, Bill.com, Root Insurance, and many more. He was named to Business Insider's list of Rising Stars in Venture Capital. Prior to joining Scale, he was a Growth Manager at Tilt.com that was acquired by Airbnb. Before that, he worked at Box. He began his career at Gl...

Amr Awadallah is the founder and CEO of Vectara, an LLM-powered search company that enables customers to understand exactly what their users are asking. They just announced that they've raised a $28.5 Million round led by Race Capital. He was previously the founder of Cloudera, which went IPO and then was acquired for $5.3 Billion. He has held roles at Google Cloud, Yahoo, Nortel, and HP Labs...

Naveen Rao is the cofounder and CEO of MosaicML, a platform that enables you to train and deploy large AI models on your data in your secure environment. They've raised funding from amazing investors such as Lux Capital, Data Collective, and Maverick Ventures. Prior to this, he was the cofounder of Nervana. It got acquired by Intel for $408M. In this episode, we cover a range of topics includ...

Harry Glaser is the cofounder and CEO of Modelbit, a platform for data scientists to deploy machine learning models. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of Periscope Data, which raised more than $50M in funding from investors such as Bessemer, Threshold, Susa, and others. Periscope got acquired for $130M by SiSense. Prior to that, he was a product manager at Google.  In this episode, we cover...

Matt Welsh is the cofounder and CEO of Fixie, an automation platform for LLMs. It allows developers to build natural language agents that connect to your data, talk to APIs, and solve complex problems. They've raised $17M from investors such as Redpoint, Madrona, Zetta, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and more. He has previously held roles at OctoML, Apple, Xnor, and Google. He was a Professor of...

Aditya Naganath is an investor at Kleiner Perkins, a legendary VC firm with investments in companies such as Google, Amazon, Spotify, Doordash, Slack, Intuit, UiPath, Figma, and many more. Prior to this, he was a product manager at Google focusing on growth initiatives for the SMB monetization team within emerging markets. He has previously been in technical roles at Palantir, Twitter, and Nextdoo...

Elad Gil is an entrepreneur, operator, and and investor. He has invested in and advised companies such as AirBnB, Stripe, Figma, Airtable, Samsara, Coinbase, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Pinterest, Rippling, and many more. He was the cofounder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Prior to that, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. He was the cofouder and CEO MixerLabs, which got...

Jerry Liu is the cofounder and CEO of LlamaIndex. He is the creator of the open source tool that's also named LlamaIndex, which provides a central interface to connect your LLMs with external data. He has previously held roles at Quora, Uber, and Robust Intelligence. He has a computer science degree from Princeton.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:  - What can LLMs do we...

Matt Turck is a Partner at FirstMark Capital where he focuses primarily on early-stage enterprise investing. He is particularly active in the data, machine learning, and AI. Since 2011, he has been organizing Data Driven NYC, the largest data/AI community in the US. Since 2012, he has been publishing an annual landscape of the data/AI industry, the MAD report. Earlier in his career, he was the co-...

Bob van Luijt is the cofounder and CEO of Weaviate. They build, maintain, and commercialize the open-source vector database called Weaviate. They've raised funding from amazing investors such as Index and NEA. He is the Chairman of Creative Software Foundation, a nonprofit located in The Netherlands with a sole focus on open source and creative software. In this episode, we cover a range of t...

Jake Saper is a General Partner at Emergence Capital, one of the best SaaS VCs in the world. They've invested in iconic companies such as Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva, Gusto, Box, and Bill.com. He was previously at Kleiner Perkins as part of their Green Growth Fund and has an MBA from Stanford. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Limitations of generative AI in B2B SaaS - Iter...

Jessica Leao is a Principal at Maverick Ventures, a global investment firm that has been investing in early stage companies for over 25 years. She was previously the founder and GP at The 21 Fund, a $2M seed fund building and investing in the next generation of startups out of Stanford Graduate School of Business. She's been the Managing Partner at the Dorm Room Fund, which is backed by First...

Leo Polovets is a cofounder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, a seed stage firm that has invested in iconic companies such as Robinhood and Flexport. Prior to Susa, he was the second engineering hire at Linkedin where he helped build the first versions of products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. He then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google, and was also an early engin...

Brian Raymond is the founder and CEO of Unstructured. They provide open source libraries and APIs to build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, and production machine learning pipelines. They've raised a seed round from BCV, Mango, and Essence. He was previously the VP of Global Public Sector at Primer. Prior to that, he has held roles at CIA and the National Security Counci...

Ofir Zuk is the cofounder and CEO of Datagen, a platform that provides synthetic data to train and test AI models. They have raised more than $70M in funding so far with Scale Venture Partners leading their latest round. He was previously the cofounder of Click Frauds and has held engineering roles at Check Point and Squeeck. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - The need for sy...

Ala Shaabana is the cofounder of Bittensor, an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized machine learning network. He has a PhD in computer science and has previously held roles at Instacart and VMware. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key metrics of the decentralized network: Maintaining the optimal amount of competition, Difficulty, Total TAO staked, and Sequence l...

Vishnu Ram Venkataraman is the VP of Data Science and Engineering at Credit Karma. Over the last 8.5 years, he has built their Recommendation systems and Machine Learning infrastructure for their 120 Million members and growing. Before that, he has held leadership roles at Nykaa and Games24x7. He has degrees from IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad, two of the most premier educational institutes in India...

Jill Chase is a partner at CapitalG where she focuses on AI, data, infrastructure, and devops. Previously, she was the cofounder of Nimble and the CEO at Interlaced. She got her MBA at Stanford and is a guest lecturer there as well. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Delivery models for AI businesses (BYOML and MLaaS) - Your viewpoint on companies building AI compute infrastr...

Ittai Dayan is the cofounder and CEO of Rhino Health. It's a platform powered by federated learning and edge compute technology that allows the scaling of data between different institutions without sharing data or compromising privacy. Prior to that, he has held roles at Harvard Medical School, Mass General Brigham, BCG, and Israeli Defense Forces. In this episode, we cover a range of topics...

Amanda Robson is a partner at Cowboy Ventures. She works with enterprise companies focusing on software infrastructure companies. She has a passion for open source companies and co-hosts the Open Source Startup Podcast. Before joining Cowboy, she was an early-stage investor at Norwest where she worked with a number of enterprise software companies including 6 River Systems, Fossa, and Dremio. She...

Pauline Yang is a partner at Altimeter Capital, a tech-focused crossover firm based in Menlo Park. She joined the team in 2017 and has worked on investments in Confluent, Epic Games, Gitlab, H1, Reify Health, Transposit, Unity, UiPath, and Workato. Prior to joining Altimeter, she was an investor at Berkshire Partners, a middle-market private equity firm where she focused on vertical software and c...

Sebastian Raschka is one of the most well known AI authors in the world. He is an AI researcher with a strong passion for education. As Lead AI Educator at Lightning AI, he is making AI more accessible and teaching people how to utilize AI at scale. He's been an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on deep learning research. You can learn more abo...