E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim

Join us for an interview with Shinji Kim, the CEO and founder of Select Star. She walks us through the data catalog landscape, where Select Star sits within that, how the startup thinks about data integration, and lastly she outlines how the data governance ecosystem is changing. Check it out!

Highlights:
[0:45]: Starting a company as an engineer (Concord Systems)
[6:15]: The connection between Select Star and Concord Systems
[10:57]: Controlling the inception of data so we know what ends up in the data lake
[14:05]: Data catalog market landscape 
[17:55]: What Select Star does 
[20:03]: Select Star’s approach to data integration
[21:55]: How the data governance ecosystem is changing

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