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Podcast · 110 episodes

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by Sequoia Capital · English

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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From SEO to Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James CadwalladerAgent-led growth and “AI search” replacing blue-link SEO; how brands should become legible to LLM agents, not just rank on search.14 Apr 2026 · 31 min · 21 chapters
How Autonomous Labs Will Transform Scientific Research: Ginkgo Bioworks’ Jason KellySonya Huang and Pat Grady, Sequoia Capital24 Mar 2026 · 58 min · 27 chapters
Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in SpaceGreetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space17 Mar 2026 · 44 min · 18 chapters
Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI WorldNominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World10 Mar 2026 · 41 min · 18 chapters
Building the GitHub for RL Environments: Prime Intellect's Will Brown & Johannes HagemannBuilding the GitHub for RL Environments: Prime Intellect's Will Brown & Johannes Hagemann10 Feb 2026 · 45 min · 24 chapters
What’s the Future of Vertical SaaS in an AGI World? Jamie Cuffe, CEO of PaceIn this episode, Jamie Cuffe, the CEO of Pace, discusses the challenges and advancements in AI for conservative, regulated industries like insurance.3 Feb 2026 · 52 min · 29 chapters
Making the Case for the Terminal as AI's Workbench: Warp’s Zach LloydWarp founder Zach Lloyd argues the terminal is the best “workbench” for agentic AI because agent work is time-based text input/output with easy logging and multitasking.27 Jan 2026 · 48 min · 21 chapters
Context Engineering Our Way to Long-Horizon Agents: LangChain’s Harrison ChaseLong-horizon agents and “context engineering” in LangChain/Deep Agents; how agent harnesses differ from model/frameworks; why traces (LangSmith) are essential for debugging, testing, and evals; and…21 Jan 2026 · 40 min · 18 chapters
How Ricursive Intelligence’s Founders are Using AI to Shape The Future of Chip DesignThe episode argues that chip design is the key bottleneck to advancing AI because chip design cycles are slower than AI model iteration, preventing tight chip-model co-design.14 Jan 2026 · 37 min · 23 chapters
Training General Robots for Any Task: Physical Intelligence’s Karol Hausman and Tobi SpringenbergPhysical Intelligence builds robotic foundation models that learn end-to-end from pixels/images and language to actions, aiming for robots that can perform any task across new environments.6 Jan 2026 · 1 h 2 min · 28 chapters
Why the Next AI Revolution Will Happen Off-Screen: Samsara CEO Sanjit BiswasPhysical AI for “physical operations” (trucking, construction, logistics, field service, transit, aviation) and why the next AI revolution will happen off-screen via edge inference plus cloud…16 Dec 2025 · 38 min · 24 chapters
The Rise of Generative Media: fal's Bet on Video, Infrastructure, and SpeedTraining Data features conversations with leading AI builders and researchers focused on the evolving technologies of AI and their implications for technology, business, and society.10 Dec 2025 · 1 h 2 min
Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan SoboSonya Huang and Pat Grady, Sequoia Capital2 Dec 2025 · 40 min
How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex KendallDiscussion on the evolution of autonomous driving technology, focusing on Wayve’s end-to-end deep learning approach in contrast to traditional methods.18 Nov 2025 · 42 min
How Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character ConsistencyHow Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency11 Nov 2025 · 44 min
OpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World ModelsOpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World Models6 Nov 2025 · 1 h
Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU ClustersNvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters28 Oct 2025 · 42 min
Securing the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan LahavSecuring the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan Lahav21 Oct 2025 · 44 min
Why AI Will Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia’s Doug LeoneSonya Huang, Pat Grady, Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital)14 Oct 2025 · 45 min
Why AI Will Create Abundance and Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping WuJoin hosts Sonya Huang and Doug Leone from Sequoia Capital as they discuss AI with prominent builders and researchers, exploring the evolving technologies and their implications for business and…14 Oct 2025 · 47 min
Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source AgentA podcast featuring discussions with AI builders and researchers to explore the implications of AI technologies on business and society.30 Sep 2025 · 1 h
Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias TorresWhy Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias Torres23 Sep 2025 · 45 min
Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AIA series hosted by Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and Sequoia Capital partners that delves into AI with leading builders and researchers to explore the evolving technologies and their impact on technology,…9 Sep 2025 · 43 min
Deal Velocity, Not Billable Hours: How Crosby Uses AI to Redefine Legal ContractingA series of conversations hosted by Sequoia Capital partners focusing on the implications of AI technologies on business and society.2 Sep 2025 · 50 min