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Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society.The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.
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May 13, 2026 • 36min
Suno's Mikey Shulman: Everyone Can Make Music Now
Mikey Shulman, founder and CEO of Suno, builds AI tools to make music creation accessible to everyone. He talks about modeling raw audio waves and choosing autoregression to generate full songs. He explores genre-bending sounds, why creation is the entertainment, partnerships with major labels, and visions for interactive live shows and social co-creation.
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May 8, 2026 • 27min
ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything
Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, builds audio AI for text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and voice agents. He recounts the company's origin solving dubbing and accessibility. He explains why audio was overlooked, ElevenLabs' early monetization and scaling choices, breakthroughs in emotionality and voice cloning, and how voice will become the primary interface for agents, robots, and next-gen computing.
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May 5, 2026 • 25min
Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment
Boris Cherny, Anthropic engineer and creator of Claude Code, talks about a world where AI handles nearly all his coding. He gets into shipping PRs from his phone, running fleets of agents in loops, and why software may become as accessible as writing. He also explores how stronger models could reshape teams, products, and startup dynamics.
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May 4, 2026 • 27min
Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy
Dmitri Dolgov, Waymo co-CEO and a self-driving pioneer since the DARPA Grand Challenge days, traces the 20-year push from early AV experiments to 20 million robotaxi rides. He talks safety-first culture, rapid expansion to new cities, Waymo’s foundation model, lower-cost Gen Six hardware, and the path to global commercialization.
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May 1, 2026 • 28min
OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck
Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and chief builder, leads compute, models, and product strategy. He explains why compute is never enough and why we may be 80% of the way to AGI. He describes agentic coding tools moving from 20% to 80% of code, why human attention is becoming the scarcest resource, and how fleets of agents could reshape organizations.
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Apr 30, 2026 • 27min
Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI
Demis Hassabis, Nobel-winning neuroscientist and CEO of DeepMind known for AlphaFold, reflects on his path from games to building powerful AI. He discusses why AGI could arrive by 2030. He explains how AI may cut drug discovery timelines to days and how learned simulators could unlock new sciences. He argues information might be the universe’s basic substance and why the next few years are critical.
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Apr 30, 2026 • 30min
Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Andrej Karpathy, AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI and led AI at Tesla, now runs Eureka Labs. He unpacks why vibe coding felt revolutionary and why agentic engineering is the rigorous follow-up. He reframes LLMs as jagged, summoned “ghosts,” explores Software 3.0 and verifiability, and explains which human skills—judgment and understanding—stay essential.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 31min
From SEO to Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James Cadwallader
James Cadwallader, co-founder and CEO of Profound, builds marketing tools for the AI era. He argues we face a platform shift as AI agents crawl and synthesize the web for users. Talks cover why traditional SEO thinking fails, how different models surface different sources, the rise of agentic advertising, and why original insight will beat volume.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 58min
How Autonomous Labs Will Transform Scientific Research: Ginkgo Bioworks’ Jason Kelly
Jason Kelly, founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, who builds automated biological foundries to make biology programmable. He explains how robotic, AI-driven labs run experiments at scale and a collaboration where a reasoning model plus robotics outperformed prior biochemistry results. He describes why automating lab work, cloud labs, and shared data will accelerate discovery and reshape biotech infrastructure.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 44min
Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space
Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of StarCloud, builds space-based data centers and led the first StarCloud satellite. He explains why falling launch costs make orbital compute cheaper, how radiative cooling and solar power work in vacuum, and the thermal and networking designs that scale to gigawatts. He also previews latency tradeoffs, security and regulatory angles, and the larger economic shift toward space-based compute.
