30: The DataStack Journey with Rachel Bradley-Haas and Alex Dovenmuehle of Big Time Data

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by the co-founders of Big Time Data, Rachel Bradley-Haas, and Alex Dovenmuehle, formerly of Mattermost and prior to that, Heroku. At Big Time Data, they work together to provide companies with the ability to derive value and insights from decentralized datasets, improve business processes through data enrichment and automation, and build a scalable foundation to enable a data-driven culture.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Rachel and Alex's background and their goal to make data approachable for companies everywhere (3:09)
• The data stack journey: making decisions when you're small that allow you to grow with your data and your organization (12:28)
• The problems faced when a data stack isn't nurtured early on (15:59)
• Changes in data stack technology (21:32)
• How Alex and Rachel's roles at Big Time Data differ and interact with each other (39:00)
• Client use cases (43:34)
• Comparing the stacks of seed-stage startups, mid-sized companies, and giant enterprises (48:54)

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