Our guest today is Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura, a Silicon Valley company that is pioneering an open-source and cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to pull together data from multiple sources. Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Greenoaks, Hasura has just become a unicorn. In this conversation, Gopal talks about plans to make Hasura much more widely available and capable of talking to many more databases, while staying true to its open-source ethos.

Notes:

(00:40) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation

(00:55) Our guest today — Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura

(01:51) What Hasura is about — a brief background

(03:30) The idea behind Hasura when it was started four years ago, and a bit on how it has grown

(07:46) More on the innovations at Hasura that brought it rapid customer traction

(12:00) Hasura’s reach today and more on the adoption of its commercial version

(14:16) GraphQL — a very short primer on what it is, and the work that is at the heart of Hasura

(21:13) Some of the advantages and features of the commercial version that addresses the pain points of the users of Hasura

(24:20) A stand-back look at how people are trying to manage their data and tap disparate sources of data, what are some of the biggest trends; and in that context, some thoughts on the direction in which Hasura is evolving.

(29:04) How the Indian SaaS ecosystem has changed over the last three years since Hasura moved base to Silicon Valley

(31:53) Hasura recently announced a $100 million investment, which also made it a unicorn; Some thoughts on the company’s biggest priorities in terms of its product roadmap and business expansion over the next 12-18 months.

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