124: Pragmatism About Data Stacks with Pedram Navid of West Marin Data

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Pedram’s journey into the world of data (4:05)
• What should the datastack at an early-stage startup look like? (9:53)
• New ideas surrounding access control for data (24:45)
• What can data teams learn around complexity from software engineering (30:55)
• Scaling up instead of scaling out in processing data (37:40)
• Why DuckDB is making so much noise in the market (41:06)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (53:25)

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