The State and Future of Data Tooling with Leigh Marie Braswell and Erik Bernhardsson

Village Global Podcast

Leigh Marie Braswell (@LM_Braswell) of Founders Fund and Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson), who built the music recommendation system at Spotify, join Erik to discuss:
- How data flows through a company and the business decisions that can be made based on data.
- The waves of change in the data tooling landscape over the last decade and why we’re only a quarter of the way to easy-to-use tools.
- Why there are so many data roles and how the commercialization of open source projects drives fragmentation and specialization in the industry.
- The exciting opportunities and potential pain points to build around in data tooling, including workflow scheduling, LTV predictions, and collaboration.
- Why people building in the space shouldn’t index to existing roles, structures, and platforms, since those platforms may not be around in a few years.
- Why AI and ML are just one tool in the data toolbox and the fact that there is more room to build around other, boring data science tasks.
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