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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jul 25

CEO: “we have thousands of AI agents running in production”

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jun 29

🚀 “Once you use AI, there’s no going back.” HIGH SIGNAL chat w/ @rauchg.blue, CEO of @vercel.com

1️⃣ V0’s explosion
2️⃣ “Vibe-coding” vs. agentic engineering
3️⃣ AI Cloud & Fluid Compute
4️⃣ MCP is the new HTTP
5️⃣ The 10-person GM model
6️⃣ Career advice for 18-year-olds

🎧 youtu.be/zhA7OMw4njw?...

Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same

YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jun 15

AI coding is in full gold rush mode - excellent conversation with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to understand vibe coding, the rise of coding agents, Cursor and the crazy pace of innovation in that space

youtu.be/Gp-oPGYrQDs?...

GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor

YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · May 6

Doordash acquiring SevenRooms for $1.2B, an unprecedented $171M per room. We're so back.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Apr 27

🎧 Search, RAG and AI agents: My conversation with @arvindjain.bsky.social, CEO of Glean

Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search

YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Apr 19

When an entire administration suddenly realizes their kids are not going to get in

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Apr 15

One of the secrets to success in a lot of leadership roles is the ability to deliver the same pitch thousands of time, with equal enthusiasm each single time.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Apr 12

My conversation with the CEO of Snowflake, on winning the race to become the dominant data and AI platform

Inside the Mind of Snowflake’s CEO: Bold Bets in the AI Arms Race

YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Apr 10

Europeans, as US tariffs force them to rely exclusively on German cars, French wine and Italian fashion.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Apr 3

My conversation with star AI researcher @fchollet.bsky.social
and Zapier’s Mike Knoop

* ARC AGI 2 and why it breaks base LLMs

* test-time adaptation

* the search for fluid machine intelligence

Beyond Brute Force: Chollet & Knoop on ARC AGI 2 and the Search for True Machine Intelligence

YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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Joe Galarneau @galarneau.bsky.social · Mar 27

116th edition (!) of #DataDrivenNYC Wednesday night with @matt-turck.bsky.social from @firstmark.bsky.social in conversation with CEOs from InfluxData, Sigma, OpenRouter, & Thread AI.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Mar 24

VCs when asked why they don’t just start a company themselves

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Mar 15

This changes everything.

[insert model name] just rewrote the rules of what is possible.

Nobody understands the magnitude of change [insert model name] is about to bring.

Here are some INSANE examples of what you can do with [insert model name]. #10 is 🤯

It is so over.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Mar 8

AI in 2025:

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Manus is hot

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Mar 3

If someone had told us just 2.5 years ago we'd have an omniscient, multimodal chatbot that can answer any question in the world, code, reason by analogy and show empathy and humor, most wouldn't have believed it, yet here we are, calling GPT 4.5 a disappointment lol

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Feb 26

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses and whoever has a spare $5M

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Feb 19

"Don't do services" --> Palantir

"Hardware is hard" ---> NVIDIA, Apple, Tesla, Space X

"Selling to the government is awful" --> Anduril

If you want to build a true outlier, ignore generic startup advice.

matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Feb 8

Here's my conversation with the excellent @amasad.bsky.social, CEO Repliy. With the Replit AI Agent, the company has a big hit on its hands.

We chatted about the Replit journey, AI agents and the future of Silicon Valley.

youtu.be/9xhDL2GbzaU?...

The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit

YouTube video by The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Feb 6

I think about this almost every day

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Feb 5

* Fund o3 mini-high: substance-enhanced decisions (our best performing)
* Fund Operator: we remind founders about our operating background (4 months at Salesforce)
* Fund Deep Research: we take meetings to research competitors of the companies we're actually interested in

matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Feb 5

Excited to announce a new series of funds:

* Fund 4o: good for most investments
* Fund 4o with scheduled tasks: we actually follow up
* Fund o1: we use reasoning (not just vibes) to decide whether to invest
* Fund o3: fast investment decisions (only 10 meetings and weeks of dd)

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jan 29

Ok folks, false alert: we checked, DeepSeek is not a real startup! The founder didn’t go to Stanford or Harvard, and they didn’t even do YC, or raise on a $100M cap SAFE for their pre-seed, so, nothing to worry about. Phew.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jan 26

Microsoft: "we're good for our $80B"

Meta: "we're good for our $65B"

DeepSeek: "we're good for our $5.5M"

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jan 24

Fascinating that agent mode (a la OpenAI operator etc but UiPath back in the day) continues to mean replicating a human that clicks around on a website vs having machines talk machine to each other (API mode). Maybe that changes over time as agent-specific infra gets built.

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matt-turck.bsky.social @matt-turck.bsky.social · Jan 23

VC after making one intro

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