What you want to have is you want to have access to the ideas, the people, the

experiments that are working and not working in the aggregate learning, you know, more

robustly more you know kind of with high you know, more robustly, more, you know, kind of with high, you know, fidelity

and earlier than anybody else.

And I think that's what makes the greater Seattle area, not only the cloud capital of the world,

but I think it will be, if not the, you know, one of the very best,

I think it should be viewed as one of the very best in the world centers of excellence for AI. Welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. This week

we're featuring highlights from an episode of the podcast Shift AI hosted by

Boaz Ash Canazi, CEO of AI Solutions Provider, simply augmented, in conversation

on this episode with Matt Macklewain, managing director at Seattle-based venture

firm Medrona Venture Group. You can subscribe to Shift AI at shift AI Podcast.com.

Let's jump in.

Hi, I'm Boaz, founder and CEO of Simply Augmented, and I'm excited that you're tuning in to shift AI a show that

explores what it takes to thrive and adapt to the changing workplace in the

digital age of remote work and AI. In today's episode I am thrilled to have Matt

Macklewain is our guest. Matt is general partner at Madronaventure Group and

has been a key technology leader in the Seattle community for over 20 years.

During our conversation with Matt, we explore his background and experience building companies

and advising founders to focus on the things that drive business growth and innovation.

If you're someone interested in how AI is going to factor into the startup and venture ecosystem,

you won't want to miss this episode.

It's great to have Matt on our podcast and we can't

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