
Madison Faulkner
@maddiehfaulkner
engineer who invests in data/ai/infra/devtools @nea views are my own
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14-08-2010 04:53:07
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Great summary note from Madison Faulkner around why we haven't seen a Cursor for data eng - there aren't as many hobbyist data people as hobbyist SWEs because of how context-dependent data workflows are, so harder for a tool to get consumer -> enterprise adoption. #datacouncil25



Huge kudos to Nikita | Scaling Postgres and welcome to the portfolio 💚

🌟 Excited to announce our esteemed panel of judges for the #AgentX competition by UC Berkeley RDI UC Berkeley. Huge thanks to Xinyun Chen Chi Wang Google DeepMind; Kaiyu Yang Meta; Jay Rodge Zhiding Yu NVIDIA; Somil Aggarwal Schmidt Sciences; Samuel Barry Mistral AI;




Agentic Data Episode 2 is live! In this episode we talk about: Data Acquisitions, Designing Agents vs. Software, and Metadata and Semantic Model for AI Neon - Serverless Postgres Databricks Hex Hashboard Nikita | Scaling Postgres Madison Faulkner Alation Numbers Station AI data.world


📢 Exciting team updates... Congratulations to NEA's Madison Faulkner @ ICML & Mustafa Neemuchwala who were recently promoted to Partners on NEA's Technology Investing Team! 🎉 📰: nea.com/news/press-rel…


the key paradigm for engineers to understand is that fundamentally software development will shift towards managing versus just coding -- paraphrasing Sean J. Taylor @ "Data in the Age of AI"





📢 Calling engineers and cracked technical builders: Are you interested in working as a forward deployed engineer at ElevenLabs, Factory, Aurelian (Max Keenan), or Forge (Markie Wagner)? Join us in SF on Thursday, July 24th from 6:00–8:30 PM to hear from and connect


powerful insight from Davis Treybig: Training costs have ballooned to over $300 million per model, yet the typical model remains competitive for only 3 weeks before being superseded. foundationmodelreport.ai/2025.pdf

Calling the hungriest engineers in the Valley: the fastest growing AI startups are looking for engineers who want to jump in, execute, and solve problems as forward deployed engineers. Come meet TwelveLabs (twelvelabs.io), ElevenLabs, Factory, Netic AI, and Aurelian next week:


Looking forward to reuniting with friends ICML Conference! Ping to grab a coffee ☕️