This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Chris Sell, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GrowthLoop. During the conversation, Chris talks about how GrowthLoop enables marketers to build customer journeys directly on the data warehouse. The group explores the divide between engineering teams, data teams, and marketing, and how it is closing as more companies adopt the modern data stack. They also touch on the challenges and opportunities for data warehouse vendors in implementing reverse ETL, the potential for a centralized customer data platform, the role of AI in marketing, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Brendan Short, the Co-Founder and CEO at Groundswell. During the episode, Brendan discusses his journey in being at Zoom during the high-growth stage in 2020 and his journey in founding Groundswell. They also discuss data models and how they create moats for startups, particularly in the sales space. The conversation also covers Brendan’s background in B2B SaaS go-to-market, the challenges of Salesforce’s data model, the potential of data warehouses as an alternative to Salesforce and the role of generative AI in improving user interfaces and sales processes, the future of data ownership, building trust in data-driven tools, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Matteo Pelati and Vivek Gudapuri, Co-Founders of Dozer, a company that helps users turn various data sources into APIs for real-time data access. During the conversation, the group discusses the problems that led to the creation of Dozer and how it bridges the gap between data engineering and application engineering. Topics also include the components and workflow of Dozer, its handling of schema changes, working with event streams, use cases, the importance of reliability and observability in Dozer’s data-to-API solution, and more.