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.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Stefan Krawczyk, the Co-Creator of Hamilton and Co-Founder of DAGWorks. During the episode, Stefan shares his journey working in data for NextDoor, StitchFix, and others on his journey to founding DAGWorks. The conversation also includes much discussion around Stefan’s creation of Hamilton, how the platform works with definitions and time-series data, how it improves pipelines, what makes Hamilton an ML oriented framework, the importance of unit testing, and more.