Matt Ober: Data, AI, and What's Actually Coming Next

Matt Ober: Data, AI, and What's Actually Coming Next

From The David Spisak Show by David Spisak

May 14, 2026 · 57 min

About this episode

Matt Ober discusses his insights on AI and data management from his extensive experience in the finance sector.

Matt Ober helped manage $30 billion. He saw the AI wave coming years before anyone else. Now he's talking about what actually happened behind the scenes. Matt is the Managing Partner at Social Leverage, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on fintech and vertical AI. Before that, he served as Chief Data Scientists at Third Point, one of the world's most elite hedge funds, and was part of the founding team at WorldQuant Ventures, where he spent six years traveling the globe acquiring data...

People in this episode

Host: David Spisak

Guest: Matt Ober

Topics covered

  • AI
  • venture capital
  • fintech
  • data science
  • entrepreneurship

Keywords

  • AI
  • data
  • venture capital
  • fintech
  • entrepreneurship
  • Third Point
  • WorldQuant

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Social Leverage, Third Point, WorldQuant Ventures

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