Health insurance denials are a big topic in America right now. Holden Karau joins me to talk about using AI to appeal health claim insurance denials.

Fight Health Insurance: https://fighthealthinsurance.com/

I’ve been asked many questions about building a personal brand for the last few weeks. Perhaps it’s the uncertain job market, people wanting to branch out, or something else. I’m unsure what’s in the air right now.

In this episode, I share some thoughts on building a personal brand.

Hannes Muhleisen is the creator of DuckDB and CEO of DuckDB Labs. We finally got a chance to meet in person at the Forward Data Conference in Paris. We hit it off immediately, and at times, I felt like I was talking with my long lost brother. Hannes is a very cool guy!

While at the conference, we recorded a chat about all things DuckDB, the challenges of data lakehouses and open table formats, local-first tech, and much more. 🦆 🐥

Dave and Johnny run Estuary, a data integration company focused on real-time ETL and ELT. We're also friends, so we decided to have a chat.

In this episode, we chat about the current state of the data integration space, running a startup while raising kids, and much more.

Estuary

Regular guest Gordon Wong joins me for a half hour to chat about tech stacks for analytics, semantic layers, and much more.

Gordon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonhwong/

Bill Inmon is considered the father of the data warehouse. I just got back from spending a couple of days with Bill, and we discussed the history of the data industry and the data warehouse. On my flight back, I realized people could benefit from a short version of our conversation.

In this short chat, we discuss what a data warehouse is (and is not), Kimball and Inmon, the origins of the data warehouse, and much more.

Valentin Becerra and I chat about DJing, AI, space engineering, and much more.

Multi-tenancy in databases is very difficult to pull off at scale. Gwen Shapira and I chat about multi-tenant databases at Nile (and elsewhere), AI, RAG, and much more.

While at lunch with a friend today, the question came up of whether he should invest his time into content (videos and courses) or consulting. Having run a consultancy (and exiting the consulting game), I quipped that consulting often has a negative net present value. What do I mean? Listen on...

Note - I'm trying out a new format where I'll record and post episodes whenever I feel like it (novel idea). Not sure about the cadence yet, so stay tuned. This might mean that non-guest podcasts simply have a topic associated with the title.

What if the world's metadata were interconnected in a decentralized way? This is part of the vision of Ole Olesen-Bagneux's Meta Grid. We have a chat about what it is, and its implications for the data industry.