On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Nick Fogle, co-founder of Churnkey and Wavve. Together they discuss how having a legal background can impact engineering decisions, dealing with privacy and compliance concerns, and selling Wavve and starting Churnkey as a result.

Highlights from this week's episode include: 

• Nick's background in economics and law and teaching himself to code (2:01)
• Thinking like a lawyer and trying to minimize risk to the greatest extent possible (4:23)
• GDPR and compliance (8:23)
• Blockchain contracts  (18:26)
• Unique challenges surrounding compliance with a cryptocurrency startup (21:41)
• Reconciling the right to be forgotten, GDPR, and blockchain permanence (27:16)
• Building Churnkey after developing it as a way to lower churn among Wavve users (31:31)
• How Churnkey's stack works (37:16)
• Crypto predictions (39:02)

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