Episodes

In this episode, we introduce a new format for the podcast—a deep dive into a technical topic with an engineer-founder who is an expert on the subject. For our first Deep Dive, I sit down with Vijay Subramanian, the visionary...

In this episode, I sit down with Paul Dix, the founder and CTO of InfluxData to explore his journey from a self-taught programmer to a leader in database systems. We discuss his role in building the NYC Machine Learning meetu...

In this episode, I sit down with Alex Mashrabov, the visionary CEO of Higgsfield AI. We journey through Alex's impressive career, beginning with his time at Yandex where he witnessed the early implementations of neural networ...

In this episode, I chat with Jordan Tigani, the dynamic engineer-founder of MotherDuck who previously led Google's BigQuery team and headed up product at SingleStore. Jordan shares the inspiring origin story of MotherDuck, w...

In this episode, Pete speaks with Alvaro Morales , the co-founder and CEO of Orb , who shares his journey from being an engineer to becoming the founder of a flexible billing engine for modern software pricing. Alvaro traces ...

In this enlightening episode, I have the privilege of hosting Craig McLuckie , a tech industry veteran who has made significant contributions to the cloud computing industry and is currently the Co-founder & CEO of stacklok ....

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 software engineer and …

In this episode, I chat with Barry McCardel, Co-Founder and CEO of Hex , as he traces his journey from leading college teams to establishing Hex, a data tool startup. Barry discusses building his team with former Palantir col...

In this episode, we explore Guillermo Rauch's path from a teen hacker in Argentina to the founder of Vercel. We touch on his engineering roots, the role of open-source in his success and Vercel's creation to simplify deployme...

In this episode, Aaron Lee, Founder & CEO of Smith.ai joins me to discuss a variety of topics. First, we delve into the innovative strategies of tech giants like Google, and explore the future of AI in business. Then we …

In this episode, we debut a new format where engineer-founders discuss key tech topics. Joined by Graham Thompson of Privacy Dynamics and Debo Ray of DevZero , we dive into modern software development. Topics include the role...

In this episode, I have the pleasure of hosting Spencer Kimball , a former Google engineer turned tech entrepreneur, and now the Co-Founder & CEO of Cockroach Labs . Spencer shares his journey from working at Google to creati...

Today on the podcast, I interview DJ Patil , an entrepreneur, investor, scientist and leader in public policy. The former (and first) U.S. Chief Data Scientist, DJ wrote the book on being Data Driven (literally: O'Reilly Data...

Today on the podcast, I interview Matt Fuller , the co-founder of Starburst . Matt has worked in data for years .... Highlights [1:00] - How Matt got into data & the C-Store paper which led to him joining Vertica, …

In this episode, I interview Eric Sammer , the founder & CEO of Decodable . Eric was previously an engineering manager at Cloudera, and before that the founder of Rocana, an early observability company that was sold to Splunk...

Josh Benamram is the the co-founder & CEO of Databand , a data observability company acquired by IBM. We’ll discuss Josh’s segue from an early career in venture capital, into becoming a product manager for a business intellig...

Alexis is the co-founder and CTO of Datadog , which was founded in NYC in 2010. He shares with the Pete the origin story of the company, how & why raising capital was very different in that period, and their …

Brad is a repeat founder and is currently the co-founder of Census , an SF company that syncs customer data to go-to-market tools. Brad shares his path from initially joining a startup as an engineer and continuing on to beco...

Pete chats with Wes McKinney , the inspiration behind many popular OSS data & data science tools like pandas, Apache Arrow, Ibis and others. We learn from Wes' experience in starting businesses around OSS tooling, and hear hi...

Join us for an interview with Max Beauchemin , the original creator of both Apache Superset and Apache Airflow and the founder and CEO of Preset , the company built around Apache Superset. [1:37] Motivations for building Apac...

Pete interviews Lindsay Pettingill, CEO & Founder of Iggy . Iggy allows users to quickly understand physical locations to make better investment and management decisions. Lindsay gives us an overview of Iggy, how working at A...

Join us for an interview with Shinji Kim , the CEO and founder of Select Star . She walks us through the data catalog landscape, where Select Star sits within that, how the startup thinks about data integration, and lastly …

Join us for an interview with Joey Gonzalez , one of the founding members of the UC Berkeley RISE Lab and the founder of Aqueduct . Aqueduct is helping take data science into production systems. Listen to this episode to …

Shirshanka Das spent a decade leading data architecture at LinkedIn where he was the co-creator of DataHub, Apache Gobblin, Databus, Espresso and other high scale data infrastructure projects. Today he is the co-founder and C...