Naus: Airbnb created and open-sourced data presentation tool Superset
Jad Naus · The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities · Apr 13, 2019 · at 16:49
a16z investor Jad Naus highlights Airbnb's internal tooling development as an example of tech companies innovating on data access.
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“So, Airbnb, for example, built Superset, and they luckily open sourced it to the world, and now it's used by hundreds of companies.”
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