Season 1

March 22, 2023

E12: From Vertica to Starburst - Data Processing for Analytics with M…

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, …

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March 17, 2023

E11: Streaming Data w/ Eric Sammer

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...

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March 14, 2023

E10: Josh Benamram and Data Observability

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...

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Feb. 24, 2023

E09: The Origin Story of Datadog w/ Alexis Le-Quoc

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 …

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Feb. 1, 2023

E08: Path to Becoming a Founder w/ Brad Buda

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...

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Jan. 11, 2023

E07: Monetizing Open Source w/ Wes McKinney

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...

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Nov. 7, 2022

E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim

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 …

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Oct. 3, 2022

E02: Metadata Architecture w/ Shirshanka Das

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...

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