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Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 18:17 Dimitri Sirota And we realized, you know, why don't we borrow a page from the playbook of Microsoft and Amazon and
A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 1:51 Spencer Kimball IBM DB too, which you'd run on mainframes, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL.
Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
- ▶ 19:49 Jack Berkowitz We also use Power BI quite a bit.
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 16:31 Benn Stancil But you're not gonna buy one GCP service over here, and one AWS service over here, and Azure over here.
- ▶ 16:50 Benn Stancil Then Snowflake is trying to compete with, like, the packaging of Microsoft, of AWS, of, of Google.
- ▶ 45:20 Benn Stancil There will always be someone who's like, gonna disrupt Snowflake in the same way Oracle didn't win forever, and Microsoft didn't win forever, but that becomes a much harder sell, and probably what you end up chasing is like, where are the…
Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
- ▶ 10:50 Pete DeJoy We have one in AWS, one in GCP, one in Azure.
Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:44 Felix Van de Maele One of the value propositions that we think of ourselves as, uh, we kind of handle every user, every use case across every source, all the way from the source to all the way to the reports, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, and, and everything in…
Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:24 Azeem Azhar So Google is number one, and some of us can name Bing, and a handful of people use DuckDuckGo, but who's the fourth biggest search engine in the US?
Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 22:52 Emil Eifrem It's Microsoft.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:34 Aaron Katz We've also seen companies partner very effectively with, um, with AWS, Google, Microsoft, and other cloud service providers.
- ▶ 16:04 Aaron Katz A multi-tenant managed service in the cloud, which will inevitably be deployed on a variety of different cloud platforms, whether it's AWS, GCP, Azure, whether we go to China, like I've done in the past and partner with companies like…
- ▶ 25:57 Aaron Katz Um, Walmart and Microsoft and Deutsche Bank, right?
Top 10 Trends in AI, Machine Learning and Data for 2022
- ▶ 6:36 Matt Turck It's all the same trend, which is basically turning, uh, companies from sort of like analog companies that run on, you know, sending Excel spreadsheets around with a lot of manual processes into companies that are intelligent and automated…
- ▶ 13:50 unnamed speaker On the acquisition side, there were also major, uh, M&A activity going on with nuance in the speech and text recognition world going to Microsoft for twenty billion,
- ▶ 23:37 unnamed speaker So, OpenAI on, on GPT-III side, uh, with GitHub Copilot, with a couple of Microsoft products embedded in as well.
- ▶ 36:19 Matt Turck I mean, for the last few years, there have been, you know, rumors or like people sort of, um, trying to hypothesize where, whether, uh, Databricks will be acquired by Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 2:35 Nick Schrock A technology called TypeScript out of Microsoft.
Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 8:58 Victor Riparbelli You can use our editor to add images, text, uh, sort of PowerPoint style of, of creation.
- ▶ 14:58 Victor Riparbelli You can do PowerPoint presentations live.
Fireside Chat: Ali Ghodsi (Founder & CEO, Databricks) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:15 Ali Ghodsi The business analysts, they were used to dashboarding like Tableau or Power BI, and they wanted to use just SQL at best if they wanted to do something advanced.
- ▶ 21:08 Ali Ghodsi Um, you know, I'll start by saying, you know, it's kind of like people make it about zero sum, but if you answer it like this, do you think Google Cloud will eliminate Amazon Cloud and Microsoft Cloud, or do you think, you know, Amazon…
- ▶ 30:11 Ali Ghodsi I mean, just like Windows got disrupted by Linux, the same, I mean, that's as advanced as it gets, right?
Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 24:21 Dev Ittycheria Now, Amazon and Azure in particular have competitive offerings, but we feel we're very, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:32 Dev Ittycheria And that's, that's like we've been dealing with the big guys, Oracle from day one, Microsoft, and obviously now Amazon.
- ▶ 30:25 Dev Ittycheria You know, we coexist with Oracle, we coexist with Microsoft, we coexist with other players, right?
Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 12:51 Dave Burgess And visual searches, it's actually, if you do like a, a comparison between the visual search and Pinterest, so just take a photo or something or, or get a picture and then upload it and see, see what the results are between Pinterest and…
Fireside Chat: Bindu Reddy (Founder & CEO, Abacus.AI) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 28:10 Bindu Reddy Lately I have, I really started liking, uh, okay, actually the thing I can't live without is Excel. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 12:28 Arjun Narayan So Frank, um, has done a lot of, he was an academic, he, he worked at Microsoft Research for a while, where he made several contributions to various parts of information theory, uh, data privacy, and also big data computing.
- ▶ 18:00 Arjun Narayan So materialized views have been present in databases, you know, as old as Oracle or SQL Server, um, but they've been very limited in the kinds of queries you could write and the kinds of materialized views we could write.
Fireside Chat: Jack Hanlon (VP Data, Reddit) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 17:52 Jack Hanlon You know, you can see the type of research that comes out of it, but also, you know, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and OpenAI all used Reddit's data to train their conversational AI models.
Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 16:03 Wes McKinney Uh, Microsoft has a number of internal, uh, projects in their, uh, cloud infrastructure.
Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:56 Tristan Handy All the technologies that are required to do a good job of answering those questions, whether that's, you know, sometimes Excel, sometimes SQL, sometimes Python or R, um, but they don't self-identify as technologists.
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 15:39 Amit Bendov It builds into like native API, but anything from all the web conferencing, um, Zoom, uh, WebEx, uh, Google Meet, Amazon, Chime, whatever you're using, uh, Microsoft Teams, obviously, uh, most of the telephony systems, uh, cell phones,
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 31:57 David Cancel We have to fundamentally build a global brand because we are in a different part of the cycle right now where we are closer to Procter and Gamble and selling tied silk than we are in like, you know, building, um, homebrew computers and…
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 6:54 George Fraser Generated from data in the data warehouse and then they're presented in a dashboard of a BI tool like Tableau or Looker or Microsoft Power BI or you name it.
Fireside Chat: Alex Rinke (Founder & CEO, Celonis) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:20 Matt Turck The reason why I ask you that is a question that comes up so many often in startup conversations like, oh, if only I could sign, you know, Microsoft or Amazon as a partner, I could accelerate, and then there's always like some, you know,…
- ▶ 18:08 Alex Rinke That would be, you know, opening an email or looking at an Excel sheet.
- ▶ 24:28 Matt Turck As an industry, like instead of, um, sending a bunch of people to look at processes and do PowerPoints to suggest how one should improve a process, you, you automate part of this.
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:47 Nate Stewart And ultimately I ended up at Microsoft in their cloud and enterprise group at a really interesting time because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Nate Stewart It really makes it possible to build the types of applications and the types of architectures that you'd see coming out of an Amazon or a Microsoft or a Google, but it makes that technology available to every developers.
Fireside Chat: Jerome Pesenti (Head of AI, Facebook) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 25:43 Jerome Pesenti Oh, and that's another aspect, which is we're really trying to create a community, including actually partnering with, uh, you know, actually we're partnering with Google, we're partnering with Amazon, we're partnering with Microsoft, uh,…
- ▶ 56:05 Jerome Pesenti Uh, so first of all, Microsoft is a big proponent of Onyx.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:29 Amr Awadallah So we have mobile apps, uh, on the, on the, uh, about one order, two order, even three orders of magnitude more than we ever have or ever had, uh, with Windows and, uh, Linux, like traditional OS's.
- ▶ 17:49 Matt Turck Obviously, the, I mean, the very clear objective is to take over, uh, AWS and Azure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:40 Amr Awadallah Of, uh, of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:44 Olivier Pomel Um, a lot of the value prop for the cloud, you know, for Amazon Web Services and now Google and Azure, uh, is that instead of having a development team that builds an application and then, you know, you need to spend six months filing…
NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:29 Clement Delangue Uh, using, uh, our library from medium-sized one, like, uh, Monzo, for example, the banking one, to really large ones, uh, like Bing or, uh, Apple.
- ▶ 20:38 unnamed speaker So you hear a lot of people saying that you can't compete with the big players, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, because they have so much data, and they've hired all the top people.
Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 11:28 Mike Volpi As a business is you partner with Google and Azure who, because they're pretty far behind Amazon, they're more than happy to have the original item and to pay you something for the privilege of running your version. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:40 Mike Volpi So if you look at the latest announcement from Google or from, uh, Facebook or from, uh, Microsoft, sorry, they, they have, um, uh, Confluent running in the cloud, the original version, they have Redis, they have Mongo, they have Elastic…
- ▶ 32:01 unnamed speaker Um, you know, just recently the government gave Azure a ten billion dollars contract over Amazon. 4 times in the scene
Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 17:34 unnamed speaker Um, so, I mean, I, I completely agree that, um, getting more people in an organization, uh, Python literate and data science literate is extremely important, but in practice when I've tried to do that with some of my teammates who are used… 6 times in the scene
Empowering Superheroes at Work // Rich Waldron, Tray (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 14:22 Rich Waldron Typically we see people that are quants or, um, particularly useful with spreadsheets and can build heavy Excel models are a really good tray user.
Fireside Chat: Pedro Domingos, Head of Machine Learning, DE Shaw (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 30:43 Pedro Domingos I think it's probably not gonna be a million either, which means that, you know, Microsoft Windows is already much bigger than that, you know, for much less intelligence.
Fireside Chat: Thomas Reardon, Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:30 Matt Turck You left the acquirer, uh, to join Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:39 Thomas Reardon I, I went and worked on Windows for quite a while, and then I started up Internet Explorer, uh, in 94, um, and then, uh, uh, worked on IE all the way through IE four, when we finally sort of won the browser war.
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apache Druid & An Introduction to Data Rivers // FJ Yang, Imply (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 33:04 Solmaz Shahalizadeh I think the birth paper that came out from Microsoft was really interesting.
The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:24 Benn Stancil Um, and so, I think, yeah, at the end of the day, they're gonna need SQL skills, they're gonna, they might need Python or R skills, they'll need something like Excel, um, but those things are, are learnable, whereas I think, like, the way…
Fireside Chat: Zach Perret, Founder & CEO of Plaid (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 14:08 Zach Perret Um, so, you know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a human that is collecting data from a person and, and, and they're kind of like plugging bits into an Excel model and then coming back with an answer.
Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 22:31 Martin Casado These larger incumbents, you know, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to compete against with you.
Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:54 Nick Rockwell I think it's true, and the other, um, factor, the really, the bigger factor is that the level of investment going into infrastructure from the big cloud providers dwarfs, and even, even, you know, the investment of effort that, like, a…
Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 5:14 Anant Bhardwaj Earlier people used mainframes with terminals, then basically we went into servers and desktops, and now we are basically getting into this cloud with Amazon and Google Cloud and Microsoft.
- ▶ 5:35 Anant Bhardwaj Or it could be this one, which is Microsoft Azure, provides a bunch of services.
- ▶ 6:37 Anant Bhardwaj Ah, which has drives, which is, like, mounted file system, the way you have on Windows or Mac, you can mount, like, different storage systems.
- ▶ 7:49 Anant Bhardwaj Maybe very first step could be process the files, where files could be PDF or images or Excel, Word, PowerPoint, whatever.
- ▶ 7:49 Anant Bhardwaj Maybe very first step could be process the files, where files could be PDF or images or Excel, Word, PowerPoint, whatever.
- ▶ 7:49 Anant Bhardwaj Maybe very first step could be process the files, where files could be PDF or images or Excel, Word, PowerPoint, whatever.
- ▶ 18:07 Anant Bhardwaj So it's pretty similar to lambda function, the way you saw, but it basically uses Excel-like grammar, and then from there it basically invokes.
$0 to $60M in 2 Years // Bob Moore, Crossbeam (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 10:56 Mike Tuchen Are you going to take a risk on this new SQL server thing?
- ▶ 34:46 Mike Tuchen Microsoft's bet has been, ah, since they have such a great customer relationships and, um, such a great premise footprint, they're trying to leverage that in the cloud. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:50 Mike Tuchen and, you know, having lived through the multiple iterations of this, we saw, you know, the spreadsheet hell problem, we saw the Access database problem, we saw the SharePoint sprawl problem.
- ▶ 39:50 Mike Tuchen and, you know, having lived through the multiple iterations of this, we saw, you know, the spreadsheet hell problem, we saw the Access database problem, we saw the SharePoint sprawl problem.
- ▶ 40:00 Mike Tuchen This is, as a former Microsoft guy, I'm obviously putting these kind of Microsoft terms. 2 times in the scene
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:57 Ajay Kulkarni Uh, so the, the modern database as we know it started, you know, really back in the 19 seventies with the creation of the first relational database at, at IBM called System R, and it was then commercialized into the first, you know,…
Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 24:33 Chris Dixon And, uh, um, uh, anyway, so what, but then, so what happened is tech companies then moved up the stack into services, so Microsoft's a services company, Adobe, you know, obviously Google and Facebook are, and now, um, developers have…
- ▶ 31:11 Chris Dixon You look back then, and there was, you know, they had a, they had a centralized competitor in Carta, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:16 Chris Dixon Um, which was made by Microsoft, and if you go back to 2001, when Wikipedia was started, and Carter was way better, and it had pictures, and all this other stuff, and Wikipedia was just an open thing, it was decentralized, but, and it had…
- ▶ 55:08 Chris Dixon I don't do, I don't invest in those areas, so I'll just caveat with that, but, ah, so I'm not an expert, um, but, you know, I think, like, I think that, I think if you have, um, ah, we do have, you know, companies that, that work in those… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:35 Chris Dixon You know, with Office or something, right?
- ▶ 55:36 Chris Dixon If they bundle, you know, they can bundle like, it's Quicken versus Microsoft Money, right?
Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 20:42 Natalie Evans-Harris And one of the things somebody said was, and this was somebody I think from Microsoft, said, well, we can just add my interview questions.
Fireside Chat: Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at IA Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:03 Roger Ehrenberg He was the co-founder of Add ECN, which had sold to Microsoft, and he didn't love the way that things were going there, and he thought he, he could do it better on his own, and he came to me with a PowerPoint and an idea for reshaping the…
- ▶ 6:41 Roger Ehrenberg And then two years later, found Jesse Baerudy, who's our third partner, super smart, um, young man out of, uh, Penn M&T, masters in CS, Microsoft Insight Ventures, and then joined us.
- ▶ 18:45 Roger Ehrenberg Sometimes we invest, you know, again, Trade Desk was a PowerPoint.
Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:36 Matt Turck Um, somewhere, but, uh, last quarter, uh, AWS reported a, uh, ten billion run rate, uh, growing at 45%, and then Microsoft Azure, uh, reported a seven million dollar run rate accelerating at 98%.
- ▶ 4:54 Matt Turck Um, so, um, I think the numbers were that Microsoft grew to a billion dollar, uh, in its first decade, but then ended its second decade at twenty four billion.
- ▶ 11:00 Matt Turck You were at Microsoft for- 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Matt Turck Uh, you were at Microsoft for 23 years, I believe started as the first technical person on the SQL Server and became the president of the Server and Tools entire division, um, and then left to work with Juniper as VP.
- ▶ 16:40 Bob Muglia Netiza, Teradata, Oracle, Vertica, Greenplum, SQL Server.
- ▶ 21:07 Matt Turck So there's, you know, Microsoft SQL Data Warehouse, Google BigQuery, IBM Dash GB. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Bob Muglia East, but they're also in other regions around the world because they're a global organization, and they've also said, oh, and by the way, you know, we, we want a multi-cloud strategy, and we've chosen, you know, Microsoft as our, as our,…
Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:44 Mark Johnson It was a natural language search engine, uh, spun out of, uh, the linguistics group, uh, at Xerox PARC, sold to Microsoft, um, live search at the time, eventually became Bing.
- ▶ 1:44 Mark Johnson It was a natural language search engine, uh, spun out of, uh, the linguistics group, uh, at Xerox PARC, sold to Microsoft, um, live search at the time, eventually became Bing.
- ▶ 5:22 Mark Johnson Um, but Google seems to do this better than anybody else, no matter if Microsoft is pouring billions into Bing.
Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:12 Diego Oppenheimer Um, probably the most famous one that you've probably heard of is this, uh, spreadsheet, you have a love-hate relationship, uh, made by Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:12 Diego Oppenheimer Um, probably the most famous one that you've probably heard of is this, uh, spreadsheet, you have a love-hate relationship, uh, made by Microsoft.