Training Data podcast

Training Data

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.

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.

 

#74

The Rise of Generative Media: fal's Bet on Video, Infrastructure, and Speed

fal is building the infrastructure layer for the generative media boom. In this episode, f... more

10 Dec 2025

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:18

10 Dec 2025


#73

Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan Sobo

Nathan Sobo has spent nearly two decades pursuing one goal: building an IDE that combines ... more

02 Dec 2025

40 MINS

40:13

02 Dec 2025


#72

How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall

Alex Kendall founded Wayve in 2017 with a contrarian vision: replace the hand-engineered a... more

18 Nov 2025

41 MINS

41:36

18 Nov 2025


#71

How Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency

When Google launched Nano Banana, it instantly became a global phenomenon, introducing an ... more

11 Nov 2025

43 MINS

43:38

11 Nov 2025


#70

OpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World Models

The OpenAI Sora 2 team (Bill Peebles, Thomas Dimson, Rohan Sahai) discuss how they compres... more

06 Nov 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:25

06 Nov 2025


#69

Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters

Recorded live at Sequoia’s Europe100 event: Michael Kagan, co-founder of Mellanox and CTO ... more

28 Oct 2025

41 MINS

41:31

28 Oct 2025


#68

Securing the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan Lahav

Irregular co-founder Dan Lahav is redefining what cybersecurity means in the age of autono... more

21 Oct 2025

44 MINS

44:09

21 Oct 2025


#67

Why AI Will Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia’s Doug Leone

Ping Wu built Google's contact center business before becoming CEO of Cresta, where he's p... more

14 Oct 2025

44 MINS

44:46

14 Oct 2025


#66

Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent

As CTO of Block, Dhanji Prasanna has overseen a dramatic enterprise AI transformation, wit... more

30 Sep 2025

59 MINS

59:43

30 Sep 2025


#65

Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias Torres

Elias Torres has been building AI systems since 1999, from chatbots at IBM to co-founding ... more

23 Sep 2025

44 MINS

44:49

23 Sep 2025


#64

Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI

Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, explains how his compan... more

09 Sep 2025

43 MINS

43:08

09 Sep 2025


#63

Deal Velocity, Not Billable Hours: How Crosby Uses AI to Redefine Legal Contracting

Ryan Daniels and John Sarihan are reimagining legal services by building Crosby, an AI-pow... more

02 Sep 2025

49 MINS

49:59

02 Sep 2025


#62

n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser on Building the Universal AI Automation Layer

When the AI wave hit, n8n founder Jan Oberhauser faced a critical choice: become irrelevan... more

26 Aug 2025

35 MINS

35:44

26 Aug 2025


#61

Scaling the ‘Cursor for Slides’ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha

Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, John Noronha was building Gamma with a simple insight: ... more

19 Aug 2025

30 MINS

30:05

19 Aug 2025