Hi, I'm Avis Boone, the host of That's How We Role podcast, where we talk with women making an impact as entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives, artists, actors, entertainment industry professionals, advocates, solopreneurs about their businesses and careers. Their motivation and inspiration all while serving as role models and mentors for those wanting to create their own path in their career journey. We will discuss ways to connect on all levels from real-world business to the entertain ...
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Datacast follows the narrative journey of founders, operators, and investors in the data and AI infrastructure space to unpack the careers that they have built.
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Feel mad about feeling bad about feeling sad? Your hosts, Nelly and Juno, kick down the doors to face the big, fat elephant in the room - mental health with unfiltered conversations. We're young, badass Asian American women with ADHD who are fed up pretending to be fine, so here’s to cutting the crap. Grab a coffee and join in on the laughs, the cries, and everything in-between as we share our authentic experiences and struggles working, adulting, and occasionally f*cking around through our ...
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Better For The Planet, Better For The Palate With Holistic Spirits, Amy Holmwood
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Today’s guest is Amy Holmwood, founder of Holistic Spirits Co. Amy is a health and wellness entrepreneur and advocate of holistic health solutions. Holistic spirits combines science, nature, and artisanal distillation to create innovative spirits that elevate the palate and the planet. Inspired by personal experiences with health issues since her c…
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Cocktails & Conversation with Jackie Williams, Event Vice President at Bar Convent Brooklyn
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Jackie is the Event Vice President of Bar Convent Brooklyn, one of the leading international trade events for the bar and beverage industry. Jackie's plate is quite full but she manages to serve up one of the best events here in Brooklyn! Bar Convent Brooklyn is one of the leading international trade events for the bar and beverage industry. A seas…
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The Space Between 'Atta Girl and 'I Told You So' with the Founders of Bottoms Up Bagels, Joan Kanner & Michelle Bond - S2 E8
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It is Women’s History Month and what a great time to share this conversation… In this episode, I am speaking with not one, but TWO fabulous entrepreneurs and Founders of Bottoms Up Bagels, Michelle Bond and Joan Kanner. They are also co-hosts of the Proofing Stage podcast. Michelle is a Returned Peace Corp Volunteer and has run 11 marathons. I gues…
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Creating Diversity & Inclusion in the WordPress Community with Rachel Winchester
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In this episode, I am speaking with Rachel Winchester, Win for short. Win is an entrepreneur, product designer, public speaker and creative. She is the founder of The Focus Assistants, a Brooklyn-based startup, and Visual Webmaster, a company she created to pursue her dreams of creating and developing websites and collaborating with other entrepren…
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The 133rd episode of Datacast is my conversation with Salma Bakouk, who is the CEO and co-founder of Sifflet, a Full Data Stack Observability platform. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her love for mathematics growing up, her early career working in investment banking, the founding story of Sifflet the concept of full data stack observabili…
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Episode 133: Full Data Stack Observability with Salma Bakouk
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Salma Bakouk is the CEO and co-founder of Sifflet, a Full Data Stack Observability platform. Before Sifflet, Salma was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in Sales & Trading in Asia, leading key Data & Analytics initiatives. Salma holds an Engineering Degree from École Centrale Paris in Applied Mathematics and a Master's in Statistics and Data S…
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Episode 132: Big Data Engineering, Data Culture from First Principles, and Reimagined Metadata with Suresh Srinivas
The 132nd episode of Datacast is my conversation with Suresh Srinivas, who is leading the OpenMetadata Project to build Metadata APIs & specifications and a single place to discover, collaborate, and get your data right. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his early career working at Sylantro Systems, his contribution to Apache Hadoop at Yahoo…
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Episode 132: Big Data Engineering, Data Culture from First Principles, and Reimagined Metadata with Suresh Srinivas
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Suresh Srinivas was the Chief Architect of Uber’s data platform, responsible for all data initiatives at the company, including the Databook, Data Quality, and Data Lineage initiatives. Suresh was part of the original team that built Hadoop at Yahoo! and co-founded Hortonworks, which developed and supported open-source software to manage big data a…
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Episode 131: Data Infrastructure for Consumer Platforms, Algorithmic Governance, and Responsible AI with Krishna Gade
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Krishna Gade is the founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, an AI Observability startup that helps AI-forward organizations build trusted AI solutions and connect model outcomes to business KPIs. Fiddler addresses problems in model monitoring, explainability, analytics, and fairness.An entrepreneur and engineering leader with strong technical experience in …
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SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee Roundtable Discussion on the 2023 TV/TH Contract - S2 E6
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After a rather lengthy hiatus, That’s How We Role is back! I am doing a slight departure from my normal interview-style podcast. This episode is a roundtable discussion on the SAG-AFTRA 2023 TV Theatrical Tentative Agreement. I am joined by my first time co-host, Courtney Rioux, host of The Whole Artist podcast. We are joined by our fellow SAG-AFTR…
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The 130th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Emanuel Zgraggen, the CEO and Co-Founder of Einblick - a visual computing platform that enables data teams to answer tougher, more meaningful questions by making advanced analytics and model building more streamlined and accessible. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his upbringing and ear…
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Episode 130: Towards Accessible Data Analysis with Emanuel Zgraggen
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Before founding Einblick in 2020, Emanuel was a postdoc in the database group at MIT and got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. He worked on various interactive tools for visual data exploration and analysis during this time. Most of them either influenced or are direct predecessors of Einblick.Before coming to the US, Emanuel wor…
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Episode 129: Early-Stage Product Management, Product-Led Revenue, and Startup Monologues with Diana Hsieh
The 129th episode of Datacast is my conversation with - the Head of Product and Co-Founder at Correlated. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her undergraduate experience at MIT studying Economics, her early career in investment banking, her transition to VC at Norwest Ventures, her move to product management at open-source startups Cockroach …
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Episode 129: Early-Stage Product Management, Product-Led Revenue, and Startup Monologues with Diana Hsieh
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Diana Hsieh is the Head of Product and Co-Founder at Correlated. She thrives on working with enterprise software startups. She was previously the first PM at infrastructure startups, including Cockroach Labs and Timescale. Before that, she was a VC at Norwest, focused on investing in early-stage enterprise software companies. Diana is always on the…
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Episode 128: Building Trust with Founders, VC Funding For The Cloud, and The Next Platform For Data Apps with Jason Risch
The 128th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Jason Risch, an investor on the enterprise team at Greylock - investing in security, AI/ML, data, infrastructure, and developer tools. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his upbringing in the Bay Area in the age of the “Moneyball” era, his undergraduate experience at Stanford, his early ca…
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Episode 128: Building Trust with Founders, VC Funding For The Cloud, and The Next Platform For Data Apps with Jason Risch
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Jason Risch is an investor on the enterprise team at Greylock - investing in security, AI/ML, data, infrastructure, and developer tools. Before joining Greylock, he incubated ML companies at AI Fund and was a management consultant at McKinsey. Jason is a Bay Area native, graduated from Stanford, and when not working, can be found reading, hiking, p…
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The 127th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Heather Wentworth — the Chief Data Officer of Accelerant, an MGA-enabling insurtech focused on improving how risk is exchanged across the insurance ecosystem. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her 14-year career at Liberty Mutual Insurance, her shift from underwriting to technology at lar…
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Episode 127: Data Intelligence for Insurance Transformation with Heather Wentworth
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Heather Wentworth is the founding Chief Data Officer - now working on special projects of Accelerant, an MGA-enabling insurtech focused on improving how risk is exchanged across the insurance ecosystem. She is passionate about delivering innovative solutions and business models that improve business outcomes and drive revenue growth. She was nomina…
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Episode 126: Vector Search Engine, Building An Open-Source Business, and Digital Technology Through The Lens of Language with Bob Van Luijt
The 126th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Bob Van Luijt, the CEO and co-founder of Weaviate, the business created around the open-source vector database Weaviate. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his teenage years building software for fun, his education in jazz and music composition, his consultancy agency Kubrickology, his TED…
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Episode 126: Vector Search Engine, Building An Open-Source Business, and Digital Technology Through The Lens of Language with Bob Van Luijt
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Bob Van Luijt is the CEO and co-founder of Weaviate, the business created around the open-source vector database Weaviate. Besides Weaviate, Bob frequently speaks on open-source, digital technology, software business, and business philosophy. He has spoken at 100s of events on the topics mentioned above all over the world, including a TEDx talk.…
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Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi
The 125th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Sakib Dadi - a VP at Bessemer Venture Partners. He focuses primarily on early-stage investments in developer platforms, data products, and software infrastructure Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his undergraduate experience at UPenn; his decision to pursue venture capital at Bessemer; h…
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Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi
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Sakib Dadi is a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners in their San Francisco office, where he primarily focuses on early-stage investments in developer platforms, data products, and software infrastructure. He has been involved with Bessemer’s investments, including Prefect, Coiled, Arcion, Periscope Data, Okera, Guild Education, and Sila Nan…
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Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang
The 124th episode of Datacast is my conversation with - a Partner at Sapphire Ventures. He focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data analytics. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his undergraduate experience at UC Berkeley; his transition from investment banking to venture capital; his current journey at Sapphire Vent…
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Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang
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Casber Wang is Partner at Sapphire Ventures. He focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data analytics.He is a board director/observer at JumpCloud, Tetrate, Upytcs, Verbit, and Zesty. In addition, he works closely with the team at CircleCI, Cypress, Dremio, Privacera, Side, StackHawk, and Thoughtspot. In 2020, Business Inside…
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Episode 123: AI Monitoring, Product-Oriented Data Science, and the Israeli ML community with Itai Bar Sinai
The 123rd episode of Datacast is my conversation with Itai Bar Sinai - the Chief Product Officer and co-founder at Mona Labs, the leading AI monitoring intelligence company. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his education in Math and Computer Science; his early career as a software engineer at Google; his time as an AI consultant; his curren…
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Episode 123: AI Monitoring, Product-Oriented Data Science, and the Israeli ML community with Itai Bar Sinai
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With over 10 years of experience (Google, AI-focused startups) with big data and as the Chief Product Officer and co-founder at Mona, the leading AI monitoring intelligence company, Itai has a unique view of the AI industry. Working closely with data science and ML teams applying dozens of solutions in over 10 industries, Itai encounters a wide var…
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Episode 122: The Evolution of Data Visualization, Scaling Data Culture, and The Future of Data Transformation with Gabi Steele
The 122nd episode of Datacast is my conversation with Gabi Steele - the co-founder and co-CEO of Preql, a no-code data transformation tool that empowers business users to model and manage their own metrics. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her entrance into data visualization by way of graphic design; her early career at the Washington Post…
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Episode 122: The Evolution of Data Visualization, Scaling Data Culture, and The Future of Data Transformation with Gabi Steele
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Gabi Steele is the co-founder and co-CEO of Preql, a no-code data transformation tool that empowers business users to model and manage their own metrics. She is also the co-founder of Data Culture, a data engineering and visualization consultancy. Previously Gabi led data visualization engineering at WeWork and worked on data storytelling at the Wa…
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Episode 121: High-Performance Processing Engine, Modern Data Streaming, and Propelling Minority in Tech with Alex Gallego
The 121st episode of Datacast is my conversation with Alexander Gallego, the founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, a high-performance, Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform for mission-critical workloads. He has spent his career immersed in deeply technical environments and is passionate about finding and building solutions to the challenges …
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Episode 121: High-Performance Processing Engine, Modern Data Streaming, and Propelling Minority in Tech with Alex Gallego
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Alexander Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, a high-performance, Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform for mission-critical workloads. He has spent his career immersed in deeply technical environments and is passionate about finding and building solutions to the challenges of modern data streaming.Before Redpanda, Alex was a…
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Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma
The 120th episode of Datacast is my conversation with , the Founder & CEO of Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform that is designed to spur entrepreneurial culture. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his electrical engineering education at Stanford, his first job as an analyst focused on healthcare policy, his experience as an early d…
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Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma
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Chetan Sharma is the Founder & CEO of Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform that is designed to spur entrepreneurial culture. As the 4th data scientist at Airbnb and an early data scientist at companies like Webflow, Chetan has been focused on the maturity curve of growth-stage companies and how to establish data as a central stakeholder in…
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Episode 119: Experimentation Culture, Immutable Data Warehouse, The Data Collaboration Problem, and The Rise of Data Contracts with Chad Sanderson
The 119th episode of Datacast is my conversation with , who was previously the Product Lead for Convoy’s Data Platform team. He has built everything from feature stores, experimentation platforms, metrics layers, streaming platforms, analytics tools, data discovery systems, and workflow development platforms. Our wide-ranging conversation touches o…
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Episode 119: Experimentation Culture, Immutable Data Warehouse, The Data Collaboration Problem, and The Rise of Data Contracts with Chad Sanderson
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Chad Sanderson was the Product Lead for Convoy's Data Platform team, which includes the data warehouse, streaming, BI & visualization, experimentation, machine learning, and data discovery.Previously he worked on Microsoft's AI Platform team and led Data initiatives at SEPHORA and Subway. He has built everything from feature stores, experimentation…
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Episode 118: Overcoming Hardships, Confident Learning, Dataset Improvement, and The Ph.D. Rapper with Curtis Northcutt
The 118th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Curtis Northcutt, an American computer scientist and entrepreneur focusing on AI to empower people. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his upbringing in rural Kentucky, his education in Computer Science at Vanderbilt, his time at MIT pursuing a Ph.D. in dataset uncertainty estimation and i…
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Episode 118: Overcoming Hardships, Confident Learning, Dataset Improvement, and The Ph.D. Rapper with Curtis Northcutt
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Curtis Northcutt is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur focusing on AI to empower people. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cleanlab, building next-generation data-centric AI and open-source technologies that enable AI to work with real-world, messy data.He completed his Ph.D. at MIT, where he invented confident learning to automatically …
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The 117th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Frank Liu, the Director of Operations at Zilliz with nearly a decade of industry experience in machine learning and hardware engineering. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his upbringing moving from China to the US, his education in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, his early career wor…
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Episode 117: Vector Databases, The Embeddings Revolution, and Working in China with Frank Liu
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Frank Liu is the Director of Operations at Zilliz with nearly a decade of industry experience in machine learning and hardware engineering. Prior to joining Zilliz, Frank co-founded an IoT startup based in Shanghai and worked as an ML Software Engineer at Yahoo in San Francisco. He presents at major industry events such as Open Source Summit and wr…
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Episode 116: Distributed Databases, Open-Source Standards, and Streaming Data Lakehouse with Vinoth Chandar
The 116th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Vinoth Chandar - the creator and PMC chair of the Apache Hudi project and the founder of Onehouse (a cloud-native managed lakehouse to make data lakes easier, faster and cheaper). Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his educational experience at UT Austin, his first job working on OLTP data…
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Episode 116: Distributed Databases, Open-Source Standards, and Streaming Data Lakehouse with Vinoth Chandar
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Vinoth Chandar is the creator and PMC chair of the Apache Hudi project, a seasoned distributed systems/database engineer, and a dedicated entrepreneur. He has deep experience with databases, distributed systems, and data systems at the planet scale, strengthened through his work at Oracle, Linkedin, Uber, and Confluent.During his time at Uber, he c…
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Episode 115: Product-Led Sales, Community-Led Category Creation, and Unlocking Revenue Data with Alexa Grabell
The 115th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Alexa Grabell, the co-founder and CEO of Pocus, a Revenue Data platform that is purpose-built for GTM teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her education at Vanderbilt, her early career…
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Episode 115: Product-Led Sales, Community-Led Category Creation, and Unlocking Revenue Data with Alexa Grabell
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Alexa Grabell is the co-founder and CEO of Pocus, a Revenue Data platform that is purpose-built for GTM teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers. Alexa’s passion for Product-Led Sales started when she led sales strategy & operations at Dataminr, where she built internal solutions to …
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Women Business Owners Building A Sustainable Brand with Elina Sofia Wang-ESW Beauty, Yanna-Tizz and Tonic, Emily Renk-Zodiaque Studios & Christina Vivacqua-Weyers- Happy Undies - S2 E5
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I had the opportunity to meet and speak with some incredible, amazing and talented women for this episode. I attended the NY Now Gift Show and the Curve New York Winter Show in February. The first interview is with Elina Sofia Wang. She is the CEO & Co-Founder of ESW Beauty. Elina has created sustainably-made beauty products made with non-toxic ing…
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The 114th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Carlos Aguilar, the CEO and Founder of Glean, a data visualization startup based in New York City. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his education and Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, his early career working on robotics at Kiva Systems and Amazon, his time building data products to hel…
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Episode 114: Building Data Products and Unlocking Data Insights with Carlos Aguilar
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Carlos Aguilar is the Founder and CEO of Glean, a data visualization company based in New York City.He grew up in Washington, DC, where he started tinkering with robots and websites early on and fell in love with the intersection of art and technology. At Cornell, he studied Mechanical Engineering and robotics and did research in machine learning a…
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Episode 113: Data Applications, Real-Time Analytics, and Cloud Product Management with Shruti Bhat
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Shruti Bhat leads product management and marketing at Rockset. Before Rockset, she led Product Management for Oracle Cloud, focusing on AI, IoT, and Blockchain. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing at Ravello Systems, where she drove the start-up's rapid growth from pre-launch to hundreds of customers and a successful acquisition. Before that, s…
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Episode 112: Distributed Systems Research, The Philosophy of Computational Complexity, and Modern Streaming Database with Arjun Narayan
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Arjun Narayan is the co-founder and CEO of Materialize. Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications and analytics, built on top of a next-generation stream processor – Timely Dataflow. He was previously an engineer at Cockroach Labs and held a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.…
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The Hiatus is Over: Catching Up on Life, Love, and Mental Health
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Hey all! It's truly been forever since we last sat down and recorded an episode, but we're excited to be back with our listeners after a long hiatus! Apologies for disappearing into the void :') In this podcast episode, we chat and reflect about the past year. We (Juno) planned a wedding, (Nelly) officiated said wedding, traveled and frolicked arou…
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Episode 111: Astrophysics, Visualization Recommendation, and Scalable Data Science with Doris Lee
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Doris Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Ponder, a startup delivering scalable, enterprise-ready pandas that improve the productivity of data teams. She graduated with her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley RISE Lab in 2021, where she developed data science tools to accelerate insight discovery.By Doris Lee, James Le
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Episode 110: Wisdom in Building Data Infrastructure, Lessons From Open-Source Development, The Missing README, and The Future of Data Engineering with Chris Riccomini
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Chris Riccomini is an engineer, author, investor, and advisor. He has worked on infrastructure as an engineer and manager for about 15 years at PayPal, LinkedIn, and WePay. He was involved in open source as the original author of Apache Samza and an early contributor to Apache Airflow. He has also written a book with Dmitriy Ryaboy called The Missi…
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