The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Friday, Oct 30
The AI Collective Podcast is a live weekday show hosted by AJ Green and Catherine McMillan: the AI news that matters, what's happening inside The AI Collective, and lightning interviews with the people building the field.
📺 How to watch
Live at 9 AM PT on LinkedIn, YouTube, X and Instagram.
🗓 Run of show (PT)
9:00 Show opens: this week in AI + inside The AI Collective
9:15 Philip Rathle
9:45 Marden Rodrigues
10:10 Itamar Novick
~10:30 Wrap
🎙 Today's guests
9:15 AM PT · Philip Rathle
CTO, Neo4j
CTO of Neo4j with 25+ years in enterprise data. As Head of Product (2012–2023) he took Neo4j from a sub-$1M ARR on-prem database to a $100M+ ARR cloud portfolio and helped create the graph database category.
Topic: GraphRAG and agent memory
9:45 AM PT · Marden Rodrigues
Founder & CTO, Barkus Educacional
Founder & CTO of Barkus Educacional, through which 200K+ families have accessed financial education on WhatsApp. Builds AI for education and social impact and teaches AI literacy; a Forbes Under 30 honoree and U.S. Department of State IVLP alumnus.
Topic: Financial education for 200K+ families on WhatsApp
10:10 AM PT · Itamar Novick
Founder & General Partner, Recursive Ventures
Founder and General Partner of Recursive Ventures, a pre-seed fund writing the first check to AI founders. A former founder, executive, institutional VC and angel, he has backed 100+ startups including Deel, HoneyBook, Placer.ai, Life360 and Tile.
Topic: Writing the first check to AI founders
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