Interviews

Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in various interviews and profiles. This page offers a curated selection of these interviews, providing insight into the projects I’m involved with and the perspectives I’ve shared. While not exhaustive, it offers a good overview of my recent work and interests.

Longform interview on 7DTV (Dutch)

Longform interview in Dutch with Ronnie Overgoor. We discuss company building, AI, my background, and many other topics.

Building a multi-million dollar AI business and the future of AI

An engaging discussion between Raja Iqbal, of Data Science and me.

Profile in Dutch Financial Times (Dutch)

Profile by Jasper Houtman about my background, upbringing, music, company building, and Weaviate.

Longform interview on the Accelerometer podcast

Longform interview with Dr. Matthew Mirman about the origins of his company Weaviate, Future of Vector Databases in AI, company building, and more.

Vector databases and the $8 trillion open source market

In-depth interview with Matt Turck for Data-Driven New York about AI and vector databases, particularly Weaviate.

In-depth interview on building an open-source startup

This is a podcast with Emily Omier in which we discuss the why, what, and how of building an open-source company.

Longform interview and profile with James Le

A super-detailed deep dive interview and a profile by James Le.

Interview about Weaviate with NASDAQ’s MarketSite

General introduction to Weaviate and vector databases

In-depth interview with Brian Schechter celebrating the hacker mindset

In this interview, we dive into what being a maker and hacker means, and the revolution of generative AI.

Revolutionizing AI Search with Weaviate

Interview for the Microsoft blog with John Maeda digging into Weaviate’s history.

Building an AI-Native Company

Long form interview with Contrary Research about how I see the development of Artificial Intelligence infrastructure companies.

Index Ventures Leads $50 Million Investment in AI Startup Weaviate

Interview with Kate Clark about Weaviate’s Series-B, emphasizing how I think about company valuations.

Interview with Ben Lorica about vector databases

An in-depth interview with Ben Lorica of The Data Exchange where we dive into the orgins of the vector database.

Vector Search, the AI Stack and more with Bob van Luijt

In-depth interview with Sam Ramji for the open-source data podcast.

Weaviate Series-A interview for TechCrunch

This is an interview by TechCrunch’s Cristina Hall about Weaviate’s Series-A. Note that the company back then was still called SeMI-Technologies, and our product was Weaviate.

Digital technology through the lens of language (TEDx)

Although technically not an interview or profile, this is my TEDx talk, which illuminates my thinking about the relation of language to software and how I believe it enabled us to build anything we can articulate.

Interview with Alex Wilhelm introducing the concept of vector search

This is one of the earlier interviews by Alex Wilhelm for TechCrunch, in which I introduce the concept of vector search and vector databases. Note that the company back then was still called SeMI-Technologies, and our product was Weaviate.

Interview on Value Creation in the Digital Age

Interview with Marcel Kwakernaak for the University of Amsterdam about digital value creation.

Knowledge graphs with Weaviate, an interview with Mark Mirchandani from Google Cloud

This is an interview about knowledge graphs and Weaviate​. ​I​t was recorded before the whole AI​ boom and discusses how Weaviate helps ​identify nodes in knowledge graphs using embeddings. Note how the company is still called SeMI.