# Training Data Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/training-data/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy. [Best AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/) Lab and founder interviews · [No. 9 of 37 AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/#training-data) Training Data is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, with a new episode every week. 15 moments cut from 5 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on training data and talent & hiring. Also [No. 5 of 17 business podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/business-podcasts/#training-data). - [Sonya Huang](https://realalpha.app/hosts/) - [Pat Grady](https://realalpha.app/hosts/) **New episodes** Weekly **Latest** Oct 20, 2026 **Moments cut** 15 **Episodes cut** 5 What its moments are about - Training data 4 - Talent & hiring 4 - Robotics 3 - Scaling laws 2 - Reasoning & RL 2 - Data centers & energy 2 ## Best moments from Training Data From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here. 1. Training Data · Sep 17, 2026 · 7 min **[Great enterprise sellers are aggressive, high-EQ and not technical](https://realalpha.app/s/great-enterprise-sellers-are-aggressive-high-eq-and-not/)** Ali tested his hiring assumptions against top sellers and found PhD-style technical skill was no edge. He rebuilt his sales rubric around aggression, emotional intelligence and reading a customer's power base. 2. Training Data · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min **[Dropping human data let AlphaZero beat two years of work in hours](https://realalpha.app/s/dropping-human-data-let-alphazero-beat-two-years-of-work-in/)** > “it took a few hours to like outperform the two years of work which we'd done as with human in the loop” Training Data [30:56](https://realalpha.app/v/L4SWQebqhek/?t=1856) 3. Training Data · Oct 8, 2026 · 5 min **[Hiring signals: Harvard predicts little, interviews must be scripted](https://realalpha.app/s/hiring-signals-harvard-predicts-little-interviews-must-be/)** > “We found that if someone is politically active as a teenager, but CZs to be in their early 20s that tends to correlate highly with someone's drive” Training Data [14:57](https://realalpha.app/v/hZxmbhsbvyw/?t=897) 4. Training Data · Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min **[Goodput, not FLOPS, is how Google holds itself accountable](https://realalpha.app/s/goodput-not-flops-is-how-google-holds-itself-accountable/)** > “if you have failure recovery, if you have whatever it is that's interrupting your work, That's part of the issue.” Training Data [8:48](https://realalpha.app/v/bGph8GwB3Sk/?t=528) 5. Training Data · Oct 20, 2026 · 4 min **[Robot training is converging on a mixed data recipe](https://realalpha.app/s/robot-training-is-converging-on-a-mixed-data-recipe/)** > “some version of a million hours of human data across egocentric and different types of modalities, some tens of thousands of hours of UMI data” Training Data [32:54](https://realalpha.app/v/0idrTKCDhuE/?t=1974) 6. Training Data · Sep 17, 2026 · 4 min **[Hire executives early and be extremely picky to avoid false positives](https://realalpha.app/s/hire-executives-early-and-be-extremely-picky-to-avoid-false/)** > “my playbook was, err on the side of being just extremely picky, take a decent amount of time, start early” Training Data [25:13](https://realalpha.app/v/k7wPdCNfljQ/?t=1513) ## The best Training Data episodes Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar. 1. 01 [Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best](https://realalpha.app/v/k7wPdCNfljQ/) Sep 17, 2026 · 3 moments 2. 02 [David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience](https://realalpha.app/v/L4SWQebqhek/) Oct 13, 2026 · 3 moments 3. 03 [Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons](https://realalpha.app/v/hZxmbhsbvyw/) Oct 8, 2026 · 3 moments 4. 04 [Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI](https://realalpha.app/v/bGph8GwB3Sk/) Oct 6, 2026 · 3 moments 5. 05 [Inside the Robot Data Factory: Mecka's Josh Gao on Sensorizing Humans to Train Robots](https://realalpha.app/v/0idrTKCDhuE/) Oct 20, 2026 · 3 moments ## The 5 guests we’ve cut - [David Silver](https://realalpha.app/builders/david-silver/) Founder & CEO, Ineffable Intelligence 3 moments - [Ali Ghodsi](https://realalpha.app/builders/ali-ghodsi/) Co-founder & CEO, Databricks 3 moments - [Josh Gao](https://realalpha.app/people/josh-gao/) 7 moments - [Luca Ferrari](https://realalpha.app/people/luca-ferrari/) Co-founder & CEO, Bending Spoons 3 moments - [Amin Vahdat](https://realalpha.app/people/amin-vahdat/) SVP & chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, Google 3 moments ## Recent episodes - Training Data **[Inside the Robot Data Factory: Mecka's Josh Gao on Sensorizing Humans to Train Robots](https://realalpha.app/v/0idrTKCDhuE/)** Josh Gao · Founder & CEO, Mecka AI [31:56](https://realalpha.app/v/0idrTKCDhuE/?t=1916) of 45:12 · Oct 20 - Training Data **[David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience](https://realalpha.app/v/L4SWQebqhek/)** David Silver & Lasse Espeholt · Ineffable Intelligence [27:19](https://realalpha.app/v/L4SWQebqhek/?t=1639) of 1:08:03 · Oct 13 - Training Data **[Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons](https://realalpha.app/v/hZxmbhsbvyw/)** Luca Ferrari · Co-founder & CEO, Bending Spoons [13:28](https://realalpha.app/v/hZxmbhsbvyw/?t=808) of 1:06:20 · Oct 8 - Training Data **[Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI](https://realalpha.app/v/bGph8GwB3Sk/)** Amin Vahdat · Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure, Google [5:27](https://realalpha.app/v/bGph8GwB3Sk/?t=327) of 1:04:27 · Oct 6 - Training Data **[Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best](https://realalpha.app/v/k7wPdCNfljQ/)** Ali Ghodsi · CEO, Databricks [12:25](https://realalpha.app/v/k7wPdCNfljQ/?t=745) of 1:14:30 · Sep 17 ## Host this show? Add the badge to your site. It links to this page, where people can watch the best moments we cut from your episodes. It fits your site or your show notes. [PNG](https://realalpha.app/badge/featured.png) Something wrong on this page? [Tell us and we'll fix it](https://realalpha.app/submit/?page=%2Fshows%2Ftraining-data%2F#send)