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Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned, these conversations are informal and informative. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their company for the long run. We invest in seed and Series A companies in the Pacific Northwest building across the information technology spectrum and in Acceleration (B and beyond) stage companies building with AI, regardless of geography.

Recent Episodes
  • AI, Ambition, and a $3 Trillion Vision: Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s Bold Bet
    Apr 10, 2025 – 31:34
  • RAG Inventor Talks Agents, Grounded AI, and Enterprise Impact
    Mar 27, 2025 – 45:26
  • Dropzone’s Edward Wu on Solving Security’s Biggest Bottleneck
    Mar 12, 2025 – 36:14
  • AI+Data in the Enterprise: Lessons from Mosaic to Databricks
    Feb 26, 2025 – 47:18
  • Scaling, AI, and Leadership after Big Tech: Lessons from Highspot's Bhrighu Sareen
    Feb 12, 2025 – 51:16
  • Serial Entrepreneur Mohit Aron on Founding, Scaling, and Leading Category-Leading Companies
    Jan 29, 2025 – 36:45
  • Terray’s Jacob Berlin on The AI-Powered Future of Medicine
    Jan 8, 2025 – 44:04
  • Curt Medeiros on Revolutionizing Precision Medicine and Scaling Ovation
    Jan 2, 2025 – 37:07
  • Breaking Conventional Wisdom: Jama Software's Blueprint for Profitable Growth
    Dec 4, 2024 – 29:53
  • Archon's Jamie Lazarovits on Unlocking the Full Power of Antibodies With AI
    Nov 13, 2024 – 40:38
  • Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured’s Brian Raymond
    Oct 31, 2024 – 23:03
  • Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj's Chris Diorio
    Oct 9, 2024 – 40:21
  • Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM
    Sep 16, 2024 – 43:15
  • From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson
    Aug 28, 2024 – 31:20
  • Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications
    Aug 15, 2024 – 35:27
  • Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders
    Jul 25, 2024 – 16:47
  • Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot’s Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming
    Jul 10, 2024 – 34:13
  • Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications
    Jun 26, 2024 – 11:26
  • Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair
    Jun 12, 2024 – 41:46
  • Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents
    May 29, 2024 – 37:47
  • Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont
    May 15, 2024 – 26:02
  • Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
    Apr 18, 2024 – 31:01
  • How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing
    Mar 20, 2024 – 33:23
  • How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise
    Mar 6, 2024 – 27:52
  • Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Soma Somasegar
    Feb 21, 2024 – 13:43
  • Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work
    Feb 7, 2024 – 36:46
  • From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie
    Jan 24, 2024 – 34:20
  • The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain
    Jan 10, 2024 – 30:07
  • Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Tim Porter
    Dec 13, 2023 – 17:19
  • Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance
    Nov 29, 2023 – 16:08
  • Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership
    Nov 15, 2023 – 27:48
  • Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source
    Nov 1, 2023 – 26:15
  • Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle
    Oct 18, 2023 – 11:02
  • Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter
    Oct 4, 2023 – 33:35
  • Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru
    Sep 27, 2023 – 18:16
  • Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI
    Sep 20, 2023 – 35:35
  • NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets
    Sep 12, 2023 – 31:01
  • Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production
    Sep 6, 2023 – 39:08
  • Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops
    Aug 23, 2023 – 21:51
  • Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs'
    Aug 9, 2023 – 34:34
  • Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition
    Jul 26, 2023 – 37:49
  • Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy
    Jul 12, 2023 – 42:07
  • Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Vivek Ramaswami
    Jun 28, 2023 – 15:19
  • Airtable's Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth & Embedding a 'Little LLM Brain' in Every Cell
    Jun 14, 2023 – 35:37
  • Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling
    May 31, 2023 – 35:26
  • Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow
    May 18, 2023 – 09:38
  • Panther Labs Founder Jack Naglieri on Cloud-Native SIEM and Self-Growth
    May 3, 2023 – 35:37
  • MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani and DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen on partnerships and commercializing open-source projects
    Apr 20, 2023 – 30:37
  • GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences
    Apr 6, 2023 – 23:03
  • IA40 Spotlight: Credo AI's Navrina Singh on ‘AI-First, Ethics Forward’ Responsible AI
    Mar 30, 2023 – 43:11
Recent Reviews
  • MrsWaterclown
    Please speak closer to the mic.
    I'd give it a 5 but either the host isn't close enough to the mic or the guest isn't close enough to the mic.
  • Dylan M Seattle
    So quiet
    Great podcast and insight but can the people who run this podcast please speak closer to the microphone or turn up the volume on their side? My headphones are full blast and can barely hear anything. Would be 5 stars if I could hear it all.
  • Erikaseattle
    Insights on building a company
    Like the Seattle flavor of these conversations with people who have built companies. Great insights!
  • s_melton
    Great podcast
    So far very interesting, insightful and relevant to anyone to tech industry (especially entrepreneurs)
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