120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• What is Materialize? (2:43)
• Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22)
• The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20)
• The MVP for databases (33:49)
• Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03)
• Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25)
• The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) 
• Final takeaways and previewing part two of the conversation (1:09:25)

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