Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Erik’s background and career journey (2:51)
• Managing scale in a rapidly changing environment (6:35)
• The people side of hypergrowth (12:36)
• Coding competitions (17:50)
• Introducing Modal Labs (19:02)
• How Erik got into building Modal (21:45)
• The employee experience at Modal (28:09)
• How a data engineering team would use Modal (31:21)
• What it takes to build a platform like Modal (36:27)
• What makes Modal different (42:49)
• Evolution coming for the data world (45:52)
• Untapped areas in the data world (48:46)
• Spotify playlists (52:03)

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