The Measure Pod

Full show notes and transcript  - https://bit.ly/4ev1DlN Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/ZSDSk6R4ugg ----- Episode Summary: Dara and Matthew spend a week putting OpenAI through its paces (ChatGPT, Codex and deep research) against their daily driver, Claude. A blind four-way experiment building a running-race predictor surfaces a clear split: deep research goes to OpenAI, while coding and long-...

Full show notes and transcript  - https://bit.ly/google-agentic-era Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/eamMBmm6oTU ----- Episode Summary: Dara and Matthew open with a breaking-news bulletin on Anthropic's newly released Fable, the consumer sibling to Mythos, covering its safety off-ramp to Opus 4.8, its pricing, and the looming switch from subscription to usage-based access. The main episode is a...

Full show notes and transcript  - https://bit.ly/introducing-seam-podcast Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/rvRd4nep3QU ----- Episode Summary: Dara and Matthew return after a break with a bumper news roundup covering frontier model updates, Google I/O and Next, Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing, and the latest AI design tools. The main event is the official reveal of SEAM (Semantic Engine...

Full show notes and transcript  - https://bit.ly/bq-cost-taming Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/2QxXQH6waLk ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew welcome Martin Sahlen, CEO and co-founder of Alvin.ai. Martin shares his journey from studying computer science in Norway to serial entrepreneurship, eventually settling in Tallinn, Estonia, where he founded Alvi...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/4t8mHmC Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/NqnBWK2si4Y ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of the Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew welcome Colin Zima, CEO and co-founder of Omni. Colin shares his journey in the analytics space, detailing his extensive experience with data tools, including eight years at Looker, where he held various role...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/40Zlwd1 Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/l-tb1uryhg8 ----- Episode Summary: Dara and Matthew are back with a packed episode. From the Pentagon drama that had Anthropic, OpenAI and Sam Altman making headlines, to Google's latest releases in BigQuery, Flux, Code Wiki and Workspace CLI, there's no shortage of things to unpack. The main ev...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/406exPn Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/ZvVsb9ezGKI ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew ride the wave of technological change, diving into the fast-moving dynamics of AI model competition and what it means for the industry. They explore how tools like Co-work are reshaping the way developers wri...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/49YPF1L Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/hcYLQIw9N-s ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew ease into the new year, shake off the podcasting rust before diving into big-picture ideas about AI’s potential to guide humanity toward a more optimistic, almost Star Trek–like future. Along the way, they ex...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/4s2dxZd Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/mcSx6M5-V4w ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, join Dara and Matthew as they look back over the year with 12 of their favourite highlights. They discuss the funniest and most thought-provoking moments from past episodes, including the infamous tungsten cubes story, the im...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/43VYaqO Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV6RsjPsj3c ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, we welcome Daniel Hulme, an expert in artificial intelligence and the founder of Satalia, a company recently acquired by WPP. Daniel shares insights from his extensive background in AI, which includes studying...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/4hWoNlj Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF1m9aXBeR8 ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew sit down with Juliana Jackson, returning for her second appearance, Juliana shares her journey since 2010 and emphasises her identity as a product person and how her role has developed. With a...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/47uSwNd Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qjSjsFnTiE ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew sit down with Yali Sassoon, co-founder and CTO of Snowplow. Yali reflects on Snowplow’s early challenges, the transformation brought about by cloud data warehouses, and the shifting roles of dat...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/47craLC Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/lvzrZTee9lY ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew sit down with Johan van de Werken from GA4Dataform to talk about the evolving world of analytics engineering and data transformation. From his early career journey to his work with BigQuery and large language...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/4gXOEJa Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcb_WFxQGZg ----- Episode Summary: In this episode of The Measure Pod, Dara and Matthew sit down with Mark Edmondson, AI Engineer, founder of Sunholo and Aitana, and board member at 8-bit-sheep. They explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI in business and analytics, from caree...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/4msIQbF Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/5hchBfk763o 00:00:00 – Introduction  00:01:54 – Privacy and data sharing  00:05:16 – AI pilots failure statistics  00:08:09 – Economic impact of automation  00:10:39 – AI usage and income correlation  00:15:12 – Automation versus augmentation in AI  00:18:04 – AI and privacy in analytics  00:21:2...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/45OMaZF Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/sFBo_j3cLIE Join our Dataform webinar on the 11th of September - http://bit.ly/4gfuFFu 00:00:00 - Introduction  00:01:22 - News Roundup  00:02:04 - Claude Chrome Pilot and risks  00:06:42 - Lethal trifecta problem  00:08:32 - Image generation advancements  00:12:55 - Competitive image editing sof...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/4fNEBpm Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Bz4YYZCjT6g 00:00:00 Introduction  00:03:11 GPT-5 release predictions  00:06:15 Incremental updates in AI  00:10:14 AGI as a marketing label  00:14:41 Regulation catching up with AI  00:18:24 Google Cloud Marketing Analytics Partnership  00:20:07 Dataform's impact on data quality  00:25:39 First...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/4oqoJNe Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Leb1rjtODGc 00:00:00 - Introduction  00:03:26 - Google Analytics and AI News  00:05:06 - ChatGPT Agent Tool and Pizza Ordering  00:07:06 - ChatGPT 5 Speculations  00:09:09 - Google Notebook LM and Video Generation  00:12:24 - Google AI Search in the UK  00:14:27 - Google's AI Strategy and Adverti...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/452Y00x Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/mVwb4KJpUoM 00:00:00 Introduction  00:07:46 Google Analytics MCP server  00:08:39 AI in Google Analytics management  00:12:27 Google Analytics and Reddit ads  00:17:14 Shift left manifesto explained  00:21:06 Data ownership and governance  00:24:06 Shifting left in data quality  00:28:19 Tools fo...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/44K1vsE Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/9emUszHU41U Webinar sign-up link: http://bit.ly/4nCbIjz 00:00:00 - Introduction  00:00:47 - News Segment Introduction  00:01:10 - Anthropic's AI Experiment  00:04:00 - AI's Business Acumen and Failures  00:06:18 - Meta Poaching OpenAI Engineers  00:08:23 - WhatsApp Introducing Advertising  00:11:...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - http://bit.ly/3FX0G7s Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/l6F_9ZfHxJc Webinar sign-up link: http://bit.ly/4ehrs7m 00:00:00 Google Cloud outage consequences  00:05:09 Google Search AI integration  00:09:50 Shopping journey optimisation  00:10:56 Martech madness webinar promo  00:11:36 Martech stack challenges and solutions  00:16:25 Warehouse native anal...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/45GkOF6 Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/EOCkEORVToo 00:00:00 - Introduction  00:00:47 - News Overview  00:02:25 - Speculations on AI and Hardware Integration  00:03:25 - AI Devices and Market Speculations  00:04:03 - Subscription Models and Data Privacy Concerns  00:05:21 - AI and Consumer Technology  00:05:48 - Anthropic's New Claude...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/4dtzBFh Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/4yo-N2KM8rw 00:00:00 - Introduction  00:01:00 - Veronica's Career Journey  00:02:30 - Transition from Academia to Data Analysis  00:04:00 - Regrets About Leaving Academia  00:05:30 - Current Role as a Product Data Analyst  00:07:00 - Skills Required in Data Analysis  00:09:00 - Bridging Technica...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/42SW2yG Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/08gLvHthNuw 00:00:00 – Introduction  00:05:37 – ChatGPT shopping and e-commerce  00:08:50 – AI impact on data tracking  00:12:28 – Natural language data analysis tool  00:16:18 – Discovery Catalog for Cloud Storage  00:19:11 – Data accessibility in BigQuery  00:25:23 – AI-generated insights in G...

Full show notes, transcript and AI chatbot - https://bit.ly/3Gg5HHZ Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/dcZhmVY_Bl0 00:00:00 - New co-host introduction.  00:04:01 - Google Next 25 conference highlights.  00:08:10 - CapEx spend on cloud and AI.  00:12:37 - Cross-cloud collaboration and flexibility.  00:15:40 - Gemini's integration in Firebase.  00:21:01 - Autonomous data AI platform.  00:25:10 - Da...