You Say Data, I Say Dayta

Robert Hodges is CEO of Altinity, which helps enterprises build real-time analytics using ClickHouse. 

He has been working on databases as well as the applications that use them since the early 1980s. The journey included Sybase and Oracle in the 1990s, MySQL and PostgreSQL in the early 2000s, followed by analytic databases starting in 2010. 

Robert's technical interests include distributed systems, open source software, and Kubernetes. 

He is stoked to be part of the next wave of technology based on open source analytic databases. It's a privilege to help users discover creative new uses for data and technology!

In this episode, I have a lovely conversation with Sean Languedoc about the successes and challenges of building and leading businesses.

Sean Languedoc has built or led 5 companies in technology over a 30 year career. 2 wins 2 losses and 1 that's winning now.

He's an angel investor and mentor to many. His latest venture OUTFORCE DOT AI helps companies get the best matching outsource agencies and not get fooled by outsourcing agencies that promise the world. 

In this episode he gives away the secrets of how and when to outsource and how and when NOT to outsource. 

In the latest episode, I speak with Beate Chelette about how authority figures and ideas develop through data.

Beate Chelette is the Growth Architect and founder of The Women’s Code. She creates strategies, designs process maps and blueprints for visionaries and leaders who want to maximize their profits and scale their impact.

A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly-successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal.

She is “One of 100 Top Global Thought Leaders in 2021” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs by HuffPost.

She is the author of the #1 International Award Winning Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome”

Recent clients include Amazon, Chevron, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of Cal State University Dominguez Hills, the Greater Los Angeles Realtor Association, Advertising Agency TracyLocke and thousands of small businesses.

Resources mentioned in the show:

Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter
Beate's website
Beate's podcast

Data is changing the construction industry too! In this episode, I chat with April Moss, the COO and Co-founder of DigiBuild, a Y Combinator-backed construction software company.

The company has one of the largest, sustainable, and global supplier networks. It uses AI to help customers save vast sums of money and precious time.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

ICS

Construction Technology Institute

HUD

In this episode, I chat with Kevin Marcus about the many pieces of data used in marketing.

We cover many concepts such as probabilistic and deterministic models, correlating IP addresses with a timestamp, mobile IDs, data wrangling, among many others!

Kevin is the co-founder and CTO of Versium. A serial entrepreneur, Kevin is a technical evangelist with 20 years experience architecting highly scalable commerce and database systems. He is an advisory board member and alumni of University of California-Riverside.

Analytics is changing everything - even golf! Don't believe it, listen to this episode!

If you are not a golf fan and have never picked up a club in your life, that doesn't matter. This edition will give you perspective on how the sport can be systematized and analyzed with statistics and Python.

In the latest installment, I chat with co-founders and brothers, Matt and Will Courchene about their site, data golf, that is transforming the sport!

Matt and Will Courchene grew up just outside Ottawa, Canada spending their winters playing hockey and their summers playing golf. 

They were both studying Economics in graduate school when they began applying their statistics skillset to PGA Tour data for fun. 

At first they posted the occasional blog post to a simple wordpress site, but it has since evolved into the data-driven golf analytics website known as datagolf.com.

You are probably wondering about Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, and their impact on you, your business, and the world. 

In this episode, I chat with Paul Blankley and Ryan Janssen about LLMs, AI, and the semantic layer - where they were in the past, what they are doing today, and their impact on our future.

Paul and Ryan are the Co-founders of Zenlytic, the world’s first self-serve BI tool. 

Paul is the Co-founder / CTO of Zenlytic, a self-serve BI tool that uses LLMs to provide a simple chat interface to complex business data. He's worked in data for 7+ years and is passionate about all things data and AI. He has a master's from Harvard in Data Science, and he lives in Denver, CO, where he spends his free time snowboarding, running, and rock climbing.

Ryan is the CEO of Zenlytic. Prior to co-founding Zenlytic, he worked as a software engineer and a venture capitalist and private equity investor.  He has a masters degree from Harvard in computational science and an MBA from Oxford.  Fun fact: Ryan has lived in 4 countries across 3 continents.

Other Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

Finding Asteroids Down the Back of the Couch: A Novel Approach to the Minor Planet Linking Problem

Office of Planetary Defense

Attention is All You Need Whitepaper

Chelyabinsk Event

Semantic Layer Explained

Lump of Labor Fallacy

Data is changing our customer experiences and the rate of change has accelerated rapidly over the past 3 years.

In this episode, I chat with Jason Agouris about how this is happening. 

Jason is a highly energetic leader and experienced digital business executive who brings immense knowledge to the software engineering team. 

Jason is well-rounded in business management, technical workflow analysis, and product development. 

His specialty is understanding complex systems integration from retail to fintech, apps, franchise transactional data integration, data flow affecting application development, and strategic business collaboration tools that reduce labor duplication while creating new profit opportunities. 

His focus is on working through fundamental sources of truths in model and workflow to unlock speed, scale, and agility

With an ambition to create excellent business through digital excellence, Jason has proven himself to be a valuable asset to any business, team, and partnership.

Data is becoming more and more and more prevalent.

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Gordon Chiu about how data uncovers many mysteries of life.

Dr. Gordon Chiu completed Wharton’s Advanced Management Program and Harvard’s Business Analytics Program during the latter part of 2022, and co-founded his startup Phenegra  in February of 2023.  

Gordon is pleased to share that Phenegra has won the 2023 Global Tough Technology Prize in the Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition.  HBS regards Tough Tech ventures as those working on transformative technology that solves the world’s most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership.  

While his pitch presentation was notably unconventional, Gordon’s technology is undeniable.  Phenegra will initially commercialize Dr. Chiu’s discovery of reactive graphene as Graphalt, an asphalt additive that improves the durability, bonding, and oil retention of conventional asphalt.  

This new asphalt composite is proven to be an effective material for making enduring pothole repairs.  With the unrelenting proliferation of potholes, dump-and-go temporary repairs, and the emergence of electric vehicles that are more than 30% heavier than their gasoline and diesel counterparts, Graphalt will play a significant role in reinforcing transportation infrastructure and mitigating soil, water and air pollution from desiccated asphalt worldwide.

AI is changing everything at a very rapid pace - the online knowledge base, image production, and white collar jobs.

In this episode, I chat with Edward Sturm, a serial founder and growth marketing influencer who lives the slomad life.

We cover a lot - blockchain, ether, centralized bank digital currencies (CBDC), and how ChatGPT could be the biggest innovation since the iPhone.  Most importantly, we talk about how you can hedge against AI. 

How to connect with Edward:

TikTok - @build_in_public
Twitter - @showprogress
Instagram  - edward.builds
YouTube - @buildinpublic