Wrapping up the week at Snowflake Summit. As always, the big platform ate away at their partners. If you're a partner, what can you do to shield yourself from platform cannibalization? In this episode, I give some advice from what I've seen in the data ecosystem over the years.

Todd Beauchene joins me to chat about being an early employee at a tiny startup called Snowflake, modern data platforms, and much more.

There's the interview you think you're going to have, then there's the interview you get. This is one of those, in the best way possible. I expected to chat about his time at Snowflake. We didn't even get past his early days building data warehouses because it was so fascinating. Did you know Kent is arguably one of the very first practitioners (probably an accidental inventor) of DataOps?

This is sort of a "prequel" episode. Kent Graziano and I chat about his early days as a data practitioner.

Bob Muglia joins the show to talk about why we need to move beyond SQL, semantic models, the power of knowledge graphs, the past, present, and future of databases, and much more.

Bob has a storied history in the data space, having significant involvement with Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Snowflake (former CEO), and much more. It's rare to meet someone with such a deep involvement in the creation of our industry, and this was a fascinating conversation.

Also, check out Bob's book, "The Datapreneurs." One of the best books about the data industry I've read in ages.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-muglia/

X: https://twitter.com/Bob_Muglia

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Datapreneurs-Promise-Creators-Building-Future-ebook/dp/B0BZQFJ5RP