Interview Episodes

Episode 129

March 8, 2023

with David Kohn

 – Senior Product Manager - Toolkit, Timescale

This week on the Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with David Kohn, Senior Product Manager – Toolkit at Timescale. During the episode, the group discusses time series data and databases, innovations using PostgreSQL, why Timescale builds their databases differently, and more.

Episode 128

March 1, 2023

with Alex Watson

 – Co-Founder and CPO, Gretel.ai

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Alex Watson, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Gretel.ai. During the episode, Alex shares his journey in data and how working with the NSA impacted his career in space. The conversation also includes synthetic data, the evolution of machine learning models, boundaries between synthetic and prediction models, and more.

Episode 127

February 22, 2023

with Alex Merced

 – Developer Advocate, Dremio

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Alex Merced, Developer Advocate at Dremio. During the episode, Alex talks about his experience opening and managing comic book shops has impacted his journey with data. The conversation also includes all things data lake houses, how Dremio is solving painpoints for users, what it means to be a developer advocate, and more. 

Episode 126

February 15, 2023

with Spenser Skates

 – Co-Founder and CEO, Amplitude Analytics

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Spenser Skates, Co-Founder and CEO at Amplitude Analytics. During the episode, Spenser shares the journey of Amplitude to IPO. The conversation also covers data infrastructure, product analytics, how cloud data warehousing has impacted the space, and more.

Episode 125

February 8, 2023

with Jeff Chao

 – Co-Founder & CTO of Abbey Labs

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Jeff Chao, Co-Founder & CTO at Abbey Labs. Jeff returns for his third appearance on the show and talks about his journey to Abbey Labs, tackling identity, permissions, and passwords in an organization, challenges in data availability, identity resolutions, and more.

Episode 124

February 1, 2023

with Pedram Navid

 – Owner, West Marin Data

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Pedram Navid, Owner of West Marin Data and frequent contributor to substack. During the episode, Pedram discusses the modern data stack and its complexities, modern tooling, early-stage startups, and more.

Episode 123

January 25, 2023

with Stavros Papadopoulos

 – Founder & CEO, TileDB, Inc.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Stavros Papadopoulos, Founder & CEO, TileDB, Inc. During the episode, Stavros discusses databases, particularly around solving problems at the storage level. The conversation also includes topics such as TileDB’s origin story, how the company focuses on efficiency in storage engines, how academia impacted Stavros’ journey, and more.

Episode 122

January 18, 2023

with Joran Greef

 – Founder & CEO, Tiger Beetle

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chatted with Joran Greef, Founder & CEO of Tiger Beetle. During the episode, Joran discusses his journey from accounting to coding, why double-entry accounting is important for databases, safety issues in financial softwares, the need for low latency and high throughput, and more.

Episode 121

January 11, 2023

with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

 – Founders of Materialize

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas welcome back Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry, Co-Founders of Materialize, for part two of this great conversation. During the episode, Arjun and Frank dig into the technical details of Materialize including data flow, what it takes to build a model for users to interact with, incremental computation, and more.

Episode 120

January 4, 2023

with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

 – Founders at Materialize

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry, Co-Founders of Materialize, for part one of this great conversation. During the episode, Arjun and Frank discuss their journey in founding Materialize, comparing working in research vs starting a company, key measurements of databases, different uses of Materialize, and more.