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Matt Turck

Matt Turck is a Partner at FirstMark Capital [2] focused on ML/AI, Data, Infrastructure and Enterprise Applications [1]. He holds the title of Managing Director at the firm [4]. Prior to joining FirstMark in March 2013 [6], Turck was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures from November 2008 to March 2013 [8]. His earlier career included a role as Senior Director at Oracle Corporation from June 2005 to November 2008 [9], and he co-founded TripleHop Technologies, where he served as President and COO from January 2000 to June 2005 [10]. Beyond his investment work, Turck organizes Data Driven NYC, hosts the MAD podcast, and produces the annual MAD report [5], roles he has held since January 2012 [7]. His educational background includes an LL.M. from Yale Law School [11], a Diploma in Economics and Finance from Sciences Po [12], and Master degrees from the University of Montpellier [13].

Experience

  1. Managing Director
    FirstMark CapitalMar 2013 to Present
  2. Host / Organizer
    The MAD Podcast / Data Driven NYCJan 2012 to Present
  3. Managing Director
    Bloomberg VenturesNov 2008 to Mar 2013
  4. Senior Director
    Oracle CorporationJun 2005 to Nov 2008
  5. Co-Founder, President & COO
    TripleHop TechnologiesJan 2000 to Jun 2005

Education

Media & appearances

  • Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of SoftwareThe MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck hosts Benedict Evans on The MAD Podcast to discuss OpenAI's competitive challenges in foundation models, including the lack of winner-takes-all effects in LLMs, the commodity nature of infrastructure, and how AI companies might build differentiation through ecosystems. They also explore different approaches to AI startup creation—whether entrepreneurs should look for problems to solve with AI tools or start from specific industry problems they want to fix.

  • Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck hosts Yann LeCun in this episode where they discuss LeCun's career trajectory from France through Bell Labs, his pioneering work on convolutional networks for handwritten digit recognition and check reading systems deployed by AT&T in the 1990s, and the recent resurgence of deep learning in industry and research. LeCun also mentions his recent one-year anniversary at Facebook and references his teaching on deep learning at NYU.

  • The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Prakash Nanduri discusses the problem of enterprises having abundant data but struggling to extract actionable information from it. He contrasts personal access to instant information (via Siri) with enterprise challenges where simple questions like 'how many unique customers do I have' take weeks to answer due to data preparation requirements. Nanduri outlines Paxata's vision to democratize information access through self-service data preparation tools that enable business users without coding skills to transform raw data into consumable information.

  • Fireside Chat Part I: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on AI with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYCThe MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck leads a fireside chat with Ben Horowitz discussing FirstMark's investment thesis on AI as a foundational architectural shift comparable to conventional programming. Turck and Horowitz explore the AI toolchain ecosystem, including investments in infrastructure companies like Databricks, and discuss how open source strategies are critical for developer adoption in AI-driven enterprise applications.

  • Fireside Chat: Saar Yoskovitz, Founder & CEO, Augury (interviewed by Matt Turck, FirstMark)Hardwired NYC

    Matt Turck interviews Saar Yoskovitz, CEO of Augury, about the company's hardware and software platform that listens to machine noise to detect equipment failures in manufacturing. They discuss Augury's full-stack approach combining custom hardware sensors, connectivity solutions, and AI diagnostics algorithms, as well as the company's recent Series C funding and expansion to 100 employees across New York and Israel.

  • Fireside Chat: Savin Goyal (ML Infra team (Metaflow), Netflix) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck hosts Savin Goyal from Netflix's ML Infrastructure team in a fireside chat where Goyal discusses Netflix's data stack including S3, Spark, Presto, and Snowflake, describes the organization and charter of the ML infrastructure team, and explains Metaflow as an open source project designed to help data scientists transition from prototyping in Jupyter notebooks to production workflows without requiring extensive rewrites of their code.

  • Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding PowerhouseThe MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck hosts Boris Churnney, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, discussing how Claude Code became a rapidly growing AI coding product. They explore Claude Code's origins as an accidental prototype that evolved into a terminal-based coding agent, its surprising internal adoption at Anthropic where it accelerated engineer onboarding from weeks to days, and the technical mechanics of how the model intelligently reasons about code edits when given bash tool access.

  • Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS ExtinctionThe MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Felix Rieseberg from Anthropic discusses the capabilities of Claude Mythos, an unreleased frontier model with outsize capabilities in cybersecurity that can find security flaws in code. He explains how the model represents a significant step function improvement compared to previous models and discusses implications for Claude Co-work, Anthropic's agentic product for handling complex multi-step tasks, as well as broader trends in AI capabilities and the future of software.

  • The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck - FirstMark

    Matt Turck discusses the AI market from a venture capital investor perspective at the end of 2024, covering major infrastructure investments by Meta, Google, and Amazon totaling 200 billion dollars, record-breaking fundraising rounds including OpenAI's 6.6 billion dollar raise and Safe Superintelligence's 1 billion dollar seed round, and the enormous energy and infrastructure requirements driving renewed interest in nuclear power.

  • Joe Hellerstein, Trifacta // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Joe Hellerstein discusses the problem of how people work with data and the interfaces being built for data interaction, contrasting traditional tools like Excel with modern predictive systems. He describes Trifacta's approach to filling the gap between backend platforms and analytics by building software that helps transform and clean data, demonstrating how raw data can be converted into structured form for analysis.

  • Fireside Chat: Alok Gupta (Head of Data Science & ML, DoorDash) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck interviews Alok Gupta, Head of Data Science & ML at DoorDash, about machine learning and data science applications in DoorDash's three-sided and four-sided marketplace. They discuss ML problems including recommendation, ranking, search, pricing, dasher-order matching, and fraud detection, as well as DoorDash's efforts to standardize on a centralized ML platform stack using LightGBM for tree-based models and PyTorch for deep learning.

  • Fireside Chat: Florian Douetteau (Founder & CEO, Dataiku) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Matt Turck, a board member and investor in Dataiku, interviews founder and CEO Florian Douetteau about the company's growth trajectory, including raising over $200 million, achieving unicorn status, and expanding from Europe to the US. They discuss how enterprise AI deployment involves optimizing numerous business processes across organizations, and why most companies lag behind tech giants in AI capability due to fear, skills gaps, and complexity.

  • The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck - Ivy.fmJun 18, 2026
  • Matt TurckApr 10, 2026
  • The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck | Podcast on Spotify

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