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Starburst Data

also referred to as: starburst

includes Starburst Galaxy

15 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Justin Borgman · said 75 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Justin Borgman (42), Matt Turck (32), Mike Palmer (1)

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2025 62 mentions in 2 episodes 31 per episode
2019 13 mentions in 1 episode

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Everything said about Starburst Data, oldest first

Mar 19, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borgman: Starburst Data is entirely bootstrapped and profitable from day one
“We haven't raised any venture capital thus far. And in fact, we're actually profitable, and we've been running profitably from day one,”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 13:03 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Insight
Justin Borgman: Specialized data tools lead to silos and vendor lock-in
“Over time, that creates a lot of data silos, and in particular, as you create these data silos, you're confronted with vendor lock-in, particularly if you're using proprietary databases or storage as your underlying infrastructure for these different use cases…”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 4:46 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Borgman: Enterprises will never store all data in a single repository
“We do think data lakes are where you're going to want to store as much data as you can, just because the economics will drive that, but you'll never store everything”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 18:30 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025
Insight
Borgman: Enterprise partnerships must be driven by product or sales
“I think of the partnerships organization, at least in this context, as the facilitators of the relationship, but the real Impetus. The real motivation has to, I think, come from product. It could come from sales.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 1:02:25 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Justin Borgman: Apache Iceberg won the open table format war in 2024
“I feel like the summer of twenty-twenty-four, the world said, okay, it is Iceberg. And that was like VHS, Betamax, You know, decision made.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 47:29 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Justin Borgman: Starburst created Trino, used by Netflix, Airbnb, and LinkedIn
“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.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 1:47 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borgman: Starburst's Dell OEM partnership took two years to launch
“Yeah, we're probably now starting year three, and I would say it was two years to get it really out the door as a skew that they could sell.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 1:03:38 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Borgman: Starburst is hardcore enterprise software, not a PLG motion
“We're hardcore enterprise software. You know, we're not a PLG motion.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 57:51 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025
Disclosure
Starburst was bootstrapped and profitable for its first two years
“We were bootstrapped the first two years, and we were running a nice little profitable business.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 42:42 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025
Disclosure
Starburst scrapped and rebuilt its Galaxy SaaS platform before launch
“We actually built it twice. And, you know, customers never really saw the first version because at the last minute we said, you know what, we can't deliver the seamless, easy to use, consistent experience that we're going for.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 41:10 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Borgman: Databricks and Snowflake operate strictly as cloud-only data platforms
“Databricks and Snowflake are cloud only, so if you happen to have data on-prem we're pretty much your only bet, and you know, it just so happens that that turns out to be most of the Fortune 500 almost the entirety of the financial Social services sector in pa…”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 20:14 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dell treats Starburst's OEM product as a fully comped first-party product
“It is a Dell product, you know, for all their sellers. It's a first-party product. They're getting comped in full. You know, it is treated as a Dell product in every way.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 1:03:22 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Justin Borgman: Data lakehouses are the future of data architecture
“That performance gap is de minimis at this point, and that really has changed the game, and I think now lake houses are the future.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 15:36 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borgman: Databricks and Snowflake expand into adjacent markets to justify valuations
“You have a couple giant players in Databricks and Snowflake that are now looking for adjacent markets to continue to grow their TAM and justify their valuations and drive their revenue into the future. And, ah, and that's leading to more overlaps into boxes th…”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 19:36 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Starburst maintains the Apache license for Trino without adding restrictive licensing
“We don't, and that's something that at least philosophically my co-founders have been pretty, I guess, consistent on is a desire to continue to use the Apache license, which gives widespread flexibility and freedom to users of the technology, and so we haven't…”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 27:08 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
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