In this episode, Amir Bormand interviews Pete Hunt, the CEO of Dagster Labs. They discuss the open-source nature of Dagster, a product that helps businesses with data orchestration. They explore the product's benefits, the challenges in the data orchestration market, and why Dagster Labs decided to open-source their product. Pete shares his background in open source and the importance of data pipelines in making sense of messy data. Tune in to learn more about how Dagster is revolutionizing the data industry.

Highlights:

[00:01:02] Building with data in businesses. 

[00:04:08] Data hygiene in organizations. 

[00:08:09] Building multi-tenancy from day one. 

[00:14:14] Data pipeline unpredictability. 

[00:18:00] Open source mentality. 

[00:21:10] Open source led business models. 

[00:23:05] Open source pricing strategy.

Guest:

Pete joined Dagster Labs as Head of Engineering in early 2022 and took over the reins as CEO in November of that year. Pete was previously co-founder and CEO of Smyte, an anti-abuse provider that Twitter acquired. Before this, Pete led Instagram’s web team, built Instagram’s business analytics products, and helped to open-source Facebook’s React.js.

Connect with Pete:

https://twitter.com/floydophone 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwhunt/