47: Taming the Four Dragons of Data with Sven Balnojan of Mercateo Gruppe

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Sven's Ph.D. in Singularity Theory (2:59)
• The Databricks vs. Snowflake conversation (8:17)
• The difficulty of not just inventing something new, but making it accessible (18:01)
• Databricks and unstructured data (22:22)
• Organizational change responding to technological change (29:27)
• The three-dimensional evolution of a successful open source project (40:31)

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