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.

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.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Lars Kamp, the Co-founder & CEO at Some Engineering. During the episode, the group talks about the struggles of resource management in organizations today. Topics also include discussion on the trend of large resources to micro resources, managing costs through scale and experimentation, complexities of data infrastructure, how data teams can plan for costs in the future, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Soumyadeb Mitra, the Founder & CEO of Rudderstack. During the episode, the group defines customer data, why data collection is such a complexity, bridging the gap of data collection and useful analytics, building a 360-degree customer profile, how Rudderstack translates data in its new profile feature, how future technologies will impact the data space, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Omar Maher, the Director of Product Marketing at Parallel Domain. During the episode, the group discusses synthetic data in the context of computer vision and autonomous vehicle development. Omar shares his background in data and machine learning and explains how synthetic data can be used to generate labeled data that is fresh, clean, and useful for training and testing machine learning models. The conversation also includes the challenges of obtaining high-quality labeled data for computer vision projects, the importance of addressing edge cases, ethical implications of using synthetic data to train AI models, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Simba Khadder, the CEO of Featureform. During the episode, the group discusses feature stores, embeddings, and the impact of new technologies on the data industry. Other topics include the importance of embeddings and vector databases in the data industry, the future of machine learning and its impact on businesses, new technologies in data science and ML ops, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic from Sigma. Rob serves as the Co-Founder and CTO at Sigma while Stipo is the Director of Product Management. During the episode, Rob & Stipo discuss the origin story of Sigma in using spreadsheets and SQL to drive interface change. Topics also include the evolution of BI in recent years, how tools can overcome collaboration challenges in working with data, why analytics and BI are not solved problems, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Scott Brinker, VP Platform Ecosystem at Hubspot. During the episode, Scott discusses the evolution of martech over the last ten years and how the explosion of digital data has impacted the market. Topics also include needed tools in a martech stack, where things have gone wrong in IT teams and marketing teams working together, exciting developments in the martech space, and more.