Mark Grover
Co-founder & CEO, Stemma. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Mark Grover is the Co-founder and CEO of Stemma. He participated in a virtual fireside chat at Data Driven NYC in November 2021.
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Everything Mark Grover said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Curated data catalogs take up to three years and quickly become outdated
“The problem with this approach is that a, it takes a very long time to value. It takes You depending on the size of your organization, anywhere from like a year to three years to actually get all this metadata in to then hand it to your users or your complianc…”
Manual data curation fails for fast-growing, data-intensive companies
“When you have one of one or more of these two criteria met, that system breaks. You cannot rely on curation as the source of discovery, understanding, context about a catalog, and therefore there's a need for what I now call automated data catalogs.”
Selling support and services for open-source products is a bad business model
“I find that selling support and services on an open source product is not a great business model.”
Automated data catalogs narrow scope to make manual curation possible
“An automated data catalog cannot guarantee you that this is a single source of truth, but it can tell you that out of these 200 data sets related to, I don't know, pricing, These 180 are no good for you and your use case because they haven't been updated all t…”
Analysts spend most of their time answering Slack questions, not modeling
“The expectation is like, oh, they spent all their time and like modeling and that modeling can be analytical or algorithmic. The reality is I feel like they spent all their time on Slack and they're like, Hey, what's the source of truth for this data?”
Data catalog discovery should be public while underlying access remains gated
“One default stance that we have is that within a certain deployment and sometimes the deployment is for the entire company, certain, sometimes the deployment is for a certain line of business within the company, within a certain deployment, discovery of the da…”
Unbundled data tools create management problems that require automated data catalogs
“I, in my opinion, I feel strongly that's the right thing to do and you get the best of breed products, but it creates problems around management and governance that are new and need to be solved in a new way. And that's where like something like a data catalog…”
Stemma struggles to serve command-and-control organizations that broadly restrict data access
“STEMM very clearly is in the latter category, right? We do not do well in serving the command and control style organizations.”
Stemma omits messaging and BI features to force Slack and Looker integration
“But when you grow, you have to integrate with the ecosystem the organization is in, and we, for example, we have no feature to have a conversation in the data catalog, right? And that's intentional because we want to integrate with Slack, and that's why there'…”
Central data teams should provide enablement tools, not act as bottlenecks
“It is the central team's responsibility to provide that tool. And it's the owner's responsibility to use that tool and then communicate directly to their consumers. So hard for me to say is governance should be managed at domain level. I'm not sure if I'm answ…”
Amundsen was Lyft's highest-rated internal product for three years
“From that day, which is probably mid 2018 till today, this product is the single highest CSAT scoring internal product, right?”
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