Best Paul Dix Podcasts (2024)

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E25 [DEEP DIVE]: How Metric Trees Are Transforming Businesses with Vijay Subramanian 27:14

1M ago27:14

27:14

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 behind Trace, to explore the evolution and future of metric layers in business metrics and cross-functional alignment. Vijay…

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E24: Self-Taught to Startup Success: The Unconventional Path of InfluxDB's Paul Dix 33:59

4M ago33:59

33:59

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 meetup, the creation of InfluxDB and the strategic move to make it open source. He shares insights into the decision to rewrite In…

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E23: Inside the Mind of an AI Pioneer: A Conversation with Alex Mashrabov 28:23

5M ago28:23

28:23

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 networks. We explore what ignited his entrepreneurial spirit and delve into the stark contrasts between the Russian and American ed…

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E22: From BigQuery to Motherduck: The Journey of Jordan Tigani 21:07

5M ago21:07

21:07

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, which emerged from the overlooked analytics' long tail, focusing on serving small users in data analytics. Our conversation del…

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E21: The Power of Pricing with Alvaro Morales of Orb 24:07

6M ago24:07

24:07

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 his path from Lima, Peru to San Francisco, discussing the rise of startups in his home city as well as his early engineering ex…

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E20: Building Sustainable Businesses in the Tech Industry with Craig McLuckie 26:27

8M ago26:27

26:27

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. We begin by exploring his journey from Microsoft to Google, where he co-authored Kubernetes, a pivotal project that has shaped…

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E19: Overcoming Self-Doubt to Become a Founder with Erik Bernhardsson 23:48

9M ago23:48

23:48

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 shares how his transformative years at Spotify ignited his startup mindset. We discuss the challenges he faced during his transition f…

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E18: Data Tool Disruption: Barry McCardel on Building Hex 24:19

10M ago24:19

24:19

In this episode, we chat with Barry McCardel, Co-Founder and CEO of Hex, as he shares how honing his leadership skills in college paved the way for his journey to becoming a founder. Barry discusses building his team with former Palantir colleagues and Hex's emphasis on design from its inception. He shares insights on Hex's rapid feature developmen…

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E17: The Visionary Behind Vercel with Guillermo Rauch 32:51

11M ago32:51

32:51

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 deployments with Next.js. We compare Vercel's innovations to the evolution of electric cars, discuss the significance of speed in edg…

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E16: The Future of AI in the Workplace -- A Conversation with Aaron Lee of Smith.ai 30:30

12M ago30:30

30:30

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 journey back to the early days at Smith.ai, where AI was used to enhance productivity. Aaron shares a multitude of learnings from …

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E15: Developer Productivity and the Future of Software Development -- A Conversation with Graham Thompson and Debo Ray 23:33

1y ago23:33

23:33

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 of developer productivity, challenges of new productivity tools and the problems that arise around data access. We also discu…

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E14: From Google Engineer to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder -- a Conversation with Spencer Kimball 29:23

1y ago29:23

29:23

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 creating his project, Viewfinder, which eventually led to the birth of CockroachDB. Spencer discusses his advice for founders as they…

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E13: The Evolution of Data Science with DJ Patil 30:24

1y ago30:24

30:24

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 Driven) and now puts his knowledge to work as General Partner of Great Point Ventures. Highlights 00:29 - Intro [1:50] - A di…

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E12: From Vertica to Starburst - Data Processing for Analytics with Matt Fuller 19:28

1+ y ago19:28

19:28

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, an early columnar database prior to technologies like Hadoop, HDFS or Parquet [3:45] - The increasing adoption of OSS data storage tools a…

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E11: Streaming Data w/ Eric Sammer 24:52

1+ y ago24:52

24:52

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. Eric has an amazing perspective on the architecture of data systems based on his years of experience in the field. We chat ab…

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E10: Josh Benamram and Data Observability 24:22

1+ y ago24:22

24:22

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 intelligence company (Sisense) and then becoming a founder himself, where he eventually exited his company to IBM. Highlights: [2:00] …

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E09: The Origin Story of Datadog w/ Alexis Le-Quoc 25:38

1+ y ago25:38

25:38

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 thought process as engineer-founders in arriving at the right product to build for their customers. We also chat a bit with Alexis about his an…

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E08: Path to Becoming a Founder w/ Brad Buda 26:23

1+ y ago26:23

26:23

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 become a co-founder himself. Highlights: [1:20]: on choosing Ruby for early stage product hacking & data integration [5:01]: Brad’…

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E07: Monetizing Open Source w/ Wes McKinney 19:22

1+ y ago19:22

19:22

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 his thoughts on monetization, ecosystem building and challenges in starting his companies as an engineer-founder. Wes is current…

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E06: Data Visualization w/ Max Beauchemin 23:29

2y ago23:29

23:29

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 Apache Superset [5:30] Open source project KPIs [7:19] Differences between Preset and Superset [11:18] Superset deployment methods …

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E05: Geo Data w/ Lindsay Pettingill 21:20

2y ago21:20

21:20

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 Airbnb informed founding Iggy, what neighborhood data is, and what the long term vision for Iggy is. Check it out! Highlights: …

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E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim 26:06

2y ago26:06

26:06

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 she outlines how the data governance ecosystem is changing. Check it out! Highlights: [0:45]: Starting a company as an engineer (…

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E03: Data Science in Production Systems w/ Joey Gonzalez 21:36

2y ago21:36

21:36

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 learn more! Highlights: [1:48] How Machine Learning Became Useful blog post [5:04] Building and deploying predictive models [8:36] …

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E02: Metadata Architecture w/ Shirshanka Das 22:47

2y ago22:47

22:47

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 CEO of Acryl Data, listen and learn what problems they are seeking to solve. Highlights: [1:10] Leaving LinkedIn and starting …

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E01: Data Orchestration w/ Nick Schrock 21:22

2y ago21:22

21:22

Get an update from Nick Schrock on the dagster project. This episode discusses the world of data orchestration at large, when and how to implement dagster, and the broader competitive landscape. Highlights: [0:34] The Dagster project and the problems it solves [3:05] Software defined assets and how they work [4:55] Example of how this can be implem…

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E25 [DEEP DIVE]: How Metric Trees Are Transforming Businesses with Vijay Subramanian 27:14

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E24: Self-Taught to Startup Success: The Unconventional Path of InfluxDB's Paul Dix 33:59

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E23: Inside the Mind of an AI Pioneer: A Conversation with Alex Mashrabov 28:23

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E22: From BigQuery to Motherduck: The Journey of Jordan Tigani 21:07

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E21: The Power of Pricing with Alvaro Morales of Orb 24:07

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E20: Building Sustainable Businesses in the Tech Industry with Craig McLuckie 26:27

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E19: Overcoming Self-Doubt to Become a Founder with Erik Bernhardsson 23:48

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E18: Data Tool Disruption: Barry McCardel on Building Hex 24:19

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E17: The Visionary Behind Vercel with Guillermo Rauch 32:51

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E16: The Future of AI in the Workplace -- A Conversation with Aaron Lee of Smith.ai 30:30

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E15: Developer Productivity and the Future of Software Development -- A Conversation with Graham Thompson and Debo Ray 23:33

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E14: From Google Engineer to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder -- a Conversation with Spencer Kimball 29:23

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E13: The Evolution of Data Science with DJ Patil 30:24

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E12: From Vertica to Starburst - Data Processing for Analytics with Matt Fuller 19:28

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E11: Streaming Data w/ Eric Sammer 24:52

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E10: Josh Benamram and Data Observability 24:22

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E09: The Origin Story of Datadog w/ Alexis Le-Quoc 25:38

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E08: Path to Becoming a Founder w/ Brad Buda 26:23

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E07: Monetizing Open Source w/ Wes McKinney 19:22

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E06: Data Visualization w/ Max Beauchemin 23:29

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E05: Geo Data w/ Lindsay Pettingill 21:20

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E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim 26:06

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E03: Data Science in Production Systems w/ Joey Gonzalez 21:36

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E02: Metadata Architecture w/ Shirshanka Das 22:47

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E01: Data Orchestration w/ Nick Schrock 21:22

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