Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Astasia’s background and career journey (3:03)
• How Astasia evaluates data companies (5:25)
• Defining “modern data stack” (8:39)
• The limit of the complexity of a solution (18:44)
• How risky early-stage acquisition really is (26:15)
• Flashing headlight advice for investing (30:17)
• Signs you should do a product integration (33:38)
• The next data infrastructure opportunities (36:19)
• The likelihood of two data worlds merging (43:55)
• How important open source is (49:14)
• Data-centric ML (53:47)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

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