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Erik Bernhardsson

Modal co-founder and CEO

Every podcast episode featuring Erik Bernhardsson that Attunex has found: 36 interviews and appearances across 35 shows between 2018 and 2026. Most often on The Data Stack Show (2). Follow Erik in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal: Modal powers cloud infrastructure for AI
    Scaling Europe

    Modal gives AI startups the computing power they need to run their products, and a safe way to run code their AI writes on its own. Its revenue has grown 5x this year and is now closing in on $1bn…

    2026-09-02
  2. "Nobody Lost Their Job to AI, Just the Promise of AI" - This Week in AI Ep 15
    This Week in AI

    The AI jobs panic is here. Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. CapEx went up. Nobody can agree if anyone has actually lost a job to AI, or just to the promise of it. We dug into the GPU squeeze, the…

    2026-05-27
  3. OpenAI’s Multi-Billion Ad Strategy, Modal Labs CEO on AI Infrastructure, Twilio’s Voice AI Surge
    The Information's TITV

    E-commerce reporter Ann Gehan talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about OpenAI's rapid push into conversion-oriented ads ahead of its anticipated IPO. We also talk with Modal Labs CEO Erik…

    2026-05-26
  4. Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal
    The Compute 100

    Today's guest is Erik Bernhardsson . Erik is the founder and CEO of Modal, NYC-based Series C infrastructure startup, most recently valued at $4.65B, up from their Series B at $1.1B. Modal was…

    2026-05-21
  5. Building AI-Native Infrastructure for Developers | Erik Berhnardsson, CEO of Modal
    The Peel with Turner Novak

    Erik Bernhardsson is the Co-founder and CEO of Modal, building high-performance AI infrastructure. We talk about building what is essentially a new cloud provider, created from the ground up,…

    2025-10-16
  6. Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO on AI Infra, Data Compute & Scaling GPUs
    Venture with Grace

    Erik Bernhardsson is the founder and CEO of Modal, the serverless platform for AI, data and ML teams that enables deployment of generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, and job queues with…

    2025-10-10
  7. Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson
    Podcast Archives - Software Engineering Daily

    Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and…

    2025-07-31
  8. Erik Bernhardsson on Creating Tools That Make AI Feel Effortless
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    Today on No Priors, Elad chats with Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs, a platform simplifying ML workflows by providing a serverless infrastructure designed to streamline deployment,…

    2025-01-09
  9. Solving Technical Problems To Help AI Teams Move Up The Stack, with Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal
    Barrchives

    When it comes to building cutting-edge technology companies, Erik Bernhardsson's journey with Modal exemplifies the mix of passion, technical ingenuity, and adaptability required to succeed. From…

    2025-01-08
  10. Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? | Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
    The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Before he founded Modal, Erik Bernhardsson created Spotify's music recommendation system. Today he's bringing a consumer app approach to radically simplifying developer experience for data and AI…

    2024-10-31
  11. Elevating ML Infrastructure with Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Erik Bernhardsson, CEO & Founder of Modal Labs, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the future of machine learning infrastructure. They explore how Modal is…

    2024-09-26
  12. Modal Labs: The Future of Serverless GPU Cloud Computing
    "1 to 1000" | Scaling Startups with CEOs

    In this episode of 1 to 100, host Usman Hanif welcomes Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs. Modal has rapidly scaled by offering high-performance, serverless GPU cloud solutions crucial…

    2024-08-28
  13. Modal Labs
    "Company Breakdowns"

    In this episode of Company Breakdowns, 1 to 100 podcast host Usman Hanif welcomes Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs. Modal has rapidly scaled by offering high-performance, serverless…

    2024-08-21
  14. 1 to 100: Modal Labs
    "1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining

    In this episode of 1 to 100, host Usman Hanif welcomes Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs. Modal has rapidly scaled by offering high-performance, serverless GPU cloud solutions crucial…

    2024-08-20
  15. Modal.com with Erik Bernhardsson
    Signal and Trace

    Blog https://www.highlight.io/blog/podcast-ep4-modal-with-erik-bernhardsson Modal https://modal.com/ https://twitter.com/bernhardsson Highlight https://www.highlight.io/…

    2024-03-04
  16. Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
    Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

    We’re writing this one day after the monster release of OpenAI’s Sora and Gemini 1.5. We covered this on Alex Volkov ‘s ThursdAI space, so head over there for our takes. IRL: We’re ONE WEEK away from…

    2024-02-16
  17. Erik Bernhardsson from Modal Labs
    Scaling DevTools

    Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of Modal Labs. Modal Labs is a tool to run generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and much more. Links:- https://twitter.com/bernhardsson-…

    2024-01-05
  18. E19: Overcoming Self-Doubt to Become a Founder with Erik Bernhardsson
    Zero Prime Podcast

    In this episode, I chat with Erik Bernhardsson, co-founder and CEO of Modal, about his journey from Spotify engineer to startup CTO to startup founder. Erik takes us back to his early days as a…

    2023-12-28
  19. Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing Development to the Cloud, the GPU Market, and GenAI Music
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

    Jacob and Pat sit down with Erik Bernhardsson, the founder of Modal Labs, a data infrastructure company providing GPU compute to data teams. On this episode we discussed Erik’s thoughts on the AI…

    2023-10-31
  20. Erik Bernhardsson - Modal
    devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development

    This week we talk with Erik Bernhardsson about Modal, a serverless platform for data teams. Erik talks about his background in data science and machine learning, and how he saw a need for a better…

    2023-08-14
  21. End-to-end cloud compute for AI/ML
    Practical AI

    We’ve all experienced pain moving from local development, to testing, and then on to production. This cycle can be long and tedious, especially as AI models and datasets are integrated. Modal is…

    2023-03-07
  22. Yet Another Infra Podcast - Episode 2 - Vitaly Gordon, Erik Bernhardsson, Anu Sharma, Alex Clemmer, and Timothy Chen explore dynamics of the software cloud industry: dealing with perverse incentives of cloud providers, and more.
    Yet Another Infra Podcast

    In this "OG" episode - Vitaly Gordon (Faros AI), Erik Bernhardsson (Modal), Anu Sharma (Investor), Alex Clemmer (Moment), and Timothy Chen (Essence VC) explore the dynamics of the software cloud…

    2023-01-26
  23. 111: What if Your Code Just Ran in the Cloud for You? Featuring Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs
    The Data Stack Show

    Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Erik’s background and career journey (2:51)Managing scale in a rapidly changing environment (6:35)The people side of hypergrowth (12:36)Coding…

    2022-11-02
  24. The PRQL: Erik Bernhardsson Just Can’t Stop Solving Problems
    The Data Stack Show

    In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs.

    2022-10-28
  25. 619: Tools for Deploying Data Models into Production
    Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

    Jon Krohn speaks with Erik Bernhardsson, the man who invented Spotify’s original music recommendation system. They address the different ways to interview a data science candidate, how to deploy a…

    2022-10-18
  26. Erik Bernhardsson and Etienne Dilocker on Vector Search in Production.
    Weaviate Podcast

    Weaviate Podcast #25. Thank you so much for watching the 25th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This is a really special episode with Erik Bernhardsson! Erik is one of the early thought leaders on…

    2022-10-06
  27. Ep. #9, The Argument for Less Specialization with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs
    Heavybit Podcasts

    In episode 9 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Erik Bernhardsson, founder of Modal Labs and an early engineer at Spotify. This conversation covers cohort analysis, data team recruiting, and Erik's…

    2022-02-24
  28. Scaling Engineering Organizations with Erik Bernhardsson
    Developing Leadership

    Erik Bernhardsson joins us on the podcast to chat about building engineering teams and the delicate balance between innovation and productivity as organizations grow. Erik has been scaling…

    2021-12-14
  29. Lessons in building and scaling data teams w/ Erik Bernhardsson, former CTO of Better.com
    The Sequel Show

    In today’s episode, I talk with Erik Bernhardsson, the former CTO at Better.com and early engineering manager at Spotify. We talked about how to build recommendation systems (including whether you…

    2021-12-08
  30. The State and Future of Data Tooling with Leigh Marie Braswell and Erik Bernhardsson
    Village Global Podcast

    Leigh Marie Braswell (@LM_Braswell) of Founders Fund and Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson), who built the music recommendation system at Spotify, join Erik to discuss: - How data flows through a…

    2021-10-05
  31. The Future of ML and Data Platforms // Michael Del Balso - Erik Bernhardsson // Coffee Sessions #57
    Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)

    Coffee Sessions #57 with Michael Del Balso and Erik Bernhardsson, The Future of ML and Data Platforms. Join the Community:…

    2021-10-01
  32. #2: Erik Bernhardsson on building an engineering org, developer productivity & data
    Inside Round

    Erik Bernhardsson is well known for his views on data. As one of the first 30 hires at Spotify, he built out Spotify's analytics function and authored the popular open-source project, Luigi. Most…

    2021-09-29
  33. Building a data team
    Practical AIMentioned

    Inspired by a recent article from Erik Bernhardsson titled “Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story”, Chris and Daniel discuss all things AI/data team building. They share some…

    2021-07-27
  34. Building a data team (Practical AI #142)
    Changelog Master FeedMentioned

    Inspired by a recent article from Erik Bernhardsson titled "Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story", Chris and Daniel discuss all things AI/data team building. They share some…

    2021-07-27
  35. Operators Ep 25: Erik Bernhardsson (Better)
    Operators

    Erik Bernhardsson is the ex-CTO and now Senior Adviser at Better. He joined as one of the first 10 employees when the company was less than a year old. Prior to joining Better, he worked as the…

    2021-05-11
  36. Erik Bernhardsson - Spotify, Recommendation Algorithms & Hiring #65
    Develomentor

    Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Erik Bernhardsson. Erik Bernhardsson is the CTO of Better. Better is on a mission to change the enormous and hopelessly broken mortgage…

    2020-06-15
  37. Podcast #6 Erik Bernhardsson: Fixing Broken Industries With Technology. Finance Is Next
    FinTech CTO Podcast

    Every startup has to have a great idea, a great team, and a talented leader to disrupt the industry it operates in. In this episode, we're going to talk with Erik Bernhardsson, CTO at Better Mortgage…

    2019-10-24
  38. Competitors: Luigi
    The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and AI

    On this episode, we linked up with Erik Bernhardsson (@erikbern), creator of Luigi and CTO of Better Mortgage. We chatted about everything from the motivations behind Luigi's creation and his current…

    2018-04-13