Airbnb

“Those businesses themselves are not super tech intensive, right? They're just leveraging very basic building blocks”

“We have 25 people out in San Francisco just closed our Series B recently, and we have about a 175 customers around the world, including Twitter, Square, Match.com, OpenTable, Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter and others.”

“And what's really great is that they basically have one single person that runs all of this data infrastructure for this huge company.”

“It's a top-level Apache project. And, you know, Mesosphere, Twitter, and Airbnb are major committers on the project.”

“Not the sort of advanced customer of ours, you know, say, you know, Airbnb or Twitter or, Spotify, but the vast majority of the industry is, is still kind of struggling with that.”

“If you look at any good platform, Like Uber or Airbnb, it's not that they made life convenient, but they also increased the supply of things. Like with Airbnb, the supply of hotels or supply of basically places you can find significantly increases, or with Ube…”

“Most of the tooling is kind of home rolled. Best practices haven't emerged yet. We're seeing a lot of, especially large companies, roll their entire own stacks. So Facebook has FB Learner, Google has TFX. Uber has Michelangelo. Airbnb has Big Head.”

“And so a way to create a feature store whereby we can consolidate the training data with the prediction serving time data is a common sort of holy grail for all the companies I've been at in their pursuit.”

“I would say at all three places, there was a desire for a centralized stack so that iterative improvements sort of helped all models.”

“Airflow was founded in 2014 at Airbnb, and it's an absolutely viral open source project.”

“We're the creators of an open source project called Trino, which is a pretty popular project used by a lot of the Big internet companies like Netflix and Airbnb and LinkedIn and so forth.”