A show that invites luminaries from Startupland to talk about how to build great businesses. Questions are collected from the audience & interleaved into the conversation.
01:26 Journey to Snowflake
02:32 Snowflake and AI
06:43 Choosing your model
07:44 Snowflake & OS
09:43 Innovations to reduce training data size
10:59 From large to small models
13:14 Snowflake and agentic …
01:43 Tabular Acquisition by Databricks
05:57 BI's Third Form
09:12 Future of BI
12:50 Data Quality in the World of LLMs
18:48 Building Resilient Data Pipelines & ETL
21:01 Evolving Role of BI Analysts
23:…
01:55 Big Data is Dead
06:41 Ease of Use
08:54 Hybrid Architecture
10:30 Audience Question: LLMs for Onboarding?
12:55 Hybrid Architecture Enables New Software Design
16:58 DuckDB & ETL
19:24 Duck Puns
22:0…
0:00 Office Hours - Evan Cheng
01:28 From Meta to Mysten
04:54 Why Develop a New Language, Move
11:15 Developer Response to Move
13:21 Zero Knowledge (ZK) Proof of Login
19:00 Kiosk
24:34 On Chain Storage …
Takeaways from this discussion include:
00:00 Introduction to Tom and Oliver
03:07 Overview of PLG at Dropbox
05:30 Overview of PLG at Asana
06:07 How to succeed in PLG end user acquisition phase
09:15 Tactics for Generating Awareness
10:17 Cus…
Office Hours welcomed Bill Binch, former CRO at Pendo, EVP Worldwide Sales at Marketo & operating partner at Battery to share his views on building world-class sales organizations.
Bill & I exchanged …
Office Hours welcomed Lars Nilsson, VP Sales Development from Snowflake to talk about his learnings across 5 companies he helped take public.
Throughout the hour, Lars provided insightful perspectives…