Datacast

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Mar 2024

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Datacast follows the narrative journey of data practitioners and researchers to unpack the career lessons they learned along the way. James Le hosts the show. datacast.substack.com

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March 1, 20241 hr 7 min

Episode 133: Full Data Stack Observability with Salma Bakouk

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 Science. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

February 17, 20241 hr 2 min

Episode 132: Big Data Engineering, Data Culture from First Principles, and Reimagined Metadata with Suresh Srinivas

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 and associated processing.He is leading the OpenMetadata Project to build Metadata APIs & specifications and a single place to discover, collaborate, and get your data right. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

November 29, 202354 min

Episode 130: Towards Accessible Data Analysis with Emanuel Zgraggen

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 worked as a Software and Data Engineer for various financial companies in Zurich. He tried his luck as a freelancer building in-studio touchscreen installations for Swiss National TV and developing a Spotify clone that failed miserably. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

November 21, 20231 hr 2 min

Episode 129: Early-Stage Product Management, Product-Led Revenue, and Startup Monologues with Diana Hsieh

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 hunt for her next favorite coffee shop on weekends. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

November 2, 202356 min

Episode 128: Building Trust with Founders, VC Funding For The Cloud, and The Next Platform For Data Apps with Jason Risch

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, playing Age of Empires, and cheering on Stanford Football. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

October 12, 20231 hr 1 min

Episode 127: Data Intelligence for Insurance Transformation with Heather Wentworth

Heather Wentworth is the Chief Data Officer 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 nominated as one of the top 100 Insurance Innovators of 2022 by Lightico. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

September 18, 20231 hr 21 min

Episode 126: Vector Search Engine, Building An Open-Source Business, and Digital Technology Through The Lens of Language with Bob Van Luijt

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

September 8, 20231 hr 2 min

Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi

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 Nanotechnologies.Before joining Bessemer, Sakib worked in product at Viagogo, an international marketplace for buying and selling tickets for live events. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

September 3, 20231 hr 12 min

Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang

Casber Wang is Partner at Sapphire Ventures. He focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data analytics.He is on the boards of Huntress, JumpCloud, StarTree, Tetrate, Upytcs, and Zesty. For his work, Insider listed Casber as an Enterprise VC Rising Star Investor and as an emerging investor charting the industry’s future on the 2022 EVC List.Prior to Sapphire, he was part of the technology investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked on a number of high-profile IPO and M&A transactions. He also spent time at Wish, a leading mobile commerce platform in North America and Europe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

August 25, 20231 hr 16 min

Episode 123: AI Monitoring, Product-Oriented Data Science, and the Israeli ML community with Itai Bar Sinai

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 variety of business use cases, organizational structures and cultures, and technologies used in today’s AI world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

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