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120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

The Data Stack Show

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How to Be Happy in Academia

Z Zoom: I think for my experience also in academia, like I think people like I develop much more grumpy than the people that can stop. You know, working in a startup is like being in the gala land or whatever and like academia is just like, you know, grumpy, sad people. That's obviously the case. It's not like the incentives and like the type of work is different, right? He was roughly, and that doesn't mean we raised a hundred million dollars in one shot, right? We did it over three subsequent rounds. But those, each level of de-risking involved showing the world an MVP of a non-production piece of software

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