In this episode, we sit down with Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, a global category leader in enterprise AI and a fixture on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and in the Gartner Leader Quadrant.

Florian shares his journey from a Parisian student fascinated by functional programming to leading a global enterprise software company. We discuss how Dataiku bridges the gap between technical and business teams to democratize AI in the enterprise, the challenges of selling to enterprise clients, and how Dataiku acts as an orchestration layer for Generative AI, helping businesses manage complex data processes and control AI, so they can build more with AI.

Dataiku

Website - https://www.dataiku.com/

X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/dataiku

Florian Douetteau

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdouetteau

X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/fdouetteau

FIRSTMARK

Website - https://firstmark.com

X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/FirstMarkCap

Matt Turck (Managing Director)

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/

X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturck

(00:00) Intro

(02:08) Florian's life before Dataiku

(06:58) Creation of Dataiku

(12:08) Secret behind the Dataiku's name

(12:47) How does Dataiku stay insightful about the future?

(14:46) Building a platform, not just a tool

(17:26) How to sell to the enterprise from the beginning

(20:09) Dataiku platform today

(26:55) Data is always the problem

(28:50) LLM Mesh

(36:02) Will Gen AI replace ML?

(39:41) Managing Gen AI and traditional AI on one platform

(40:37) Gen AI deployment in the enterprise

(48:33) Dataiku's roadmap

(50:28) What has changed with the company's growth?

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