The PRQL: Building Software with Intuition: Lessons from Multiple Successful Startups with Sokratis Vidros of Novu

Eric Dodds 00:03
Music. Welcome to The Data Stack Show, prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You’ll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we’re going to cover. If they’re interesting to you. You can catch the full length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the show. We have a special guest, Socrates Vedas, who was on the show three and a half years ago. We always say that we like to have people back on the show, John, but we actually do put our money where our mouth is, and sometimes that’s a lifetime and it’s software. It is a lifetime in software in Episode 43 I think it was episode 43 in July of 2021, so Socrates, welcome back to the show after three and a half years.

Sokratis Vidros 00:51
Hi guys. Glad to be back. Time flies. We just, we thought it was like two years ago, but like when we I know, I know. Oh my god. All

Eric Dodds 01:00
right. Well, give us the story. So give us your quick background so, and we’ll dig deeper when we dive into the full recording. But what were you doing three and a half years ago? And what are you doing today?

Sokratis Vidros 01:10
So at the time, I was the founding engineer at flerk, we just started with the team we’re I think it was a very early days when we’re building the first version of the software. Today. Funnily enough, I’m involved in another early stage startup in Notification space called novel, and I guess he actually caught me at the exact same state.

Eric Dodds 01:31
So it’s just going to be a repeat of the previous.

Sokratis Vidros 01:36
I mean, Clark did great, so I consider this to be

John Wessel 01:38
a great coach. That’s, yeah, well, yeah, you’re three years wiser now, so we’re interested in hearing about your lessons. So speaking of topics, though, I really want to dig into we’ve hit this theme a lot on the show recently, but we want to dig in with software engineering best practices and kind of the data best practices. We feel like there’s a gap, but the gap is narrowing. So we’re gonna dig in on that topic. What’s the topic that you’re interested in digging in on? I think

Sokratis Vidros 02:07
the other interesting topic is basically to talk about the the need for of engineers to wear multiple hats on the daily basis, meaning sometimes they have to be the product, some times they have to be the tester, sometimes they have to be both, especially length stages, where I kind of specialize, the need there is very strong love it. Well, let’s

John Wessel 02:26
dig in. All right, sounds good.

Eric Dodds 02:28
All right, that’s a wrap for the prequel, the full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it.