#87 Putting Your Data Lake to Work with Tomer Shiran – Co-Founder and CEO

Tomer Shiran is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dremio, Dremio is the Data-as-a-Service Platform company. Created by veterans of open source and big data technologies, and the creators of Apache Arrow, Dremio is a fundamentally new approach to data analytics that helps companies get more value from their data, faster. Dremio makes data engineering teams more productive and data consumers more self-sufficient. Tomer Shiran previously headed the product management team at MapR and was responsible for product strategy, roadmap, and requirements. Before MapR, Tomer held numerous product management and engineering roles at Microsoft, most recently as the product manager for Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server (now Microsoft Forefront). He is the founder of two websites that have served tens of millions of users and received coverage in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, and The Times of London. Tomer is also the author of a 900-page programming book. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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We speak about:

[01:50] How Tomer started in the data space

[03:35] What was it like running your own business?

[04:50] What did you think would happen with ePassportPhoto?

[07:20] Takeaways from MapR

[09:35] What was the process of starting Dremio?

[10:55] How did you gauge how much product development needed to be done?

[12:20] Where did you start with your hiring process?

[13:00] What have been some of the pivotal moments for Dremio?

[14:35] What does Dremio do?

[16:00] What is the semantic layer?

[20:00] Who are the users?

[23:30] What are the data masking capabilities?

[25:10] How has the journey been for you personally?

[28:35] What challenges are you facing right now?

[30:00] About Tomer’s teams

[31:15] The importance of having a sales team

[33:30] How has Dremio changed with the increase of employees?

[34:30] What does the future look like for Dremio?

[35:00] What do international expansions look like for Dremio?

[35:45] What are you most proud of in your career?

[36:20] Any lessons from your failures?

[37:45] Advice for future entrepreneurs

[40:00] Future challenges in the data space

[41:45] A piece of advice for the listeners

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