Josh Wills, former data leader at Slack and angel investor, shares insights on transitioning from management to IC roles, emotional intelligence in engineering management, challenges in Climate Tech, and practicality in engineering. He also discusses his journey into angel investing and criteria for evaluating startup investments.

Mike Del Balso, CEO of Tecton, and Josh Wills, Angel Investor, discuss the importance of feature stores and platforms for ML applications. They explore challenges in operationalizing data pipelines, integrating offline and online data stores, and templatizing workflows for fraud detection and recommendation systems. The concept of gamification in feature creation is also explored.

Josh Wills, former Director of Data at Slack/Cloudera, discusses the challenges and benefits of the Modern Data Stack. They delve into topics like the evolution of data tech, the changing landscape of data and engineering, the potential of DBT, the future of hybrid execution, and the lack of framework in the modern data stack.